Data Processing Management Association: "Why Internet Business Ventures Fail" with Ralph Perrine, senior software design engineer for Datahouse at the monthly meeting, 11:30 a.m. Wednesday, Ala Moana Hotel. Deadline today. Call 546-2084. Cost $15, members and students; and $25, nonmembers.

Hawaii Visitors Bureau: Annual membership luncheon, 11 a.m. July 23, Coral Ballroom, Hilton Hawaiian Village. Call 924-0241 for information and reservations forms. Deadline 4 p.m. tomorrow. Keynote speaker is Paul J. Casey of Aloha Based Marketing.

Small Business Development Center Network, University of Hawaii-Hilo: "Small Business in Hawaii: Getting Started," 10 a.m. to noon Thursday, 130 Merchant St., Suite 1030, Bancorp Tower. Learn characteristics of small business people, sources of capital, logistics of starting a business and resources available through the center. Cost $5. Call 522-8131.

Tax Foundation of Hawaii: John C. Couch, chairman, president and chief

executive officer of Alexander and Baldwin, Inc., addresses the annual membership meeting, noon July 31, Monarch Room, Royal Hawaiian Hotel. Cost $30. Call 536-4587.