“BILL” WILLIAM H. GATES

"One thing I love about this [decade] is this is a period where the reality is driving the expectation."
Bill Gates, 2004
International Consumer Electronics Show Keynote

William Henry Gates III was born in 1955, the second of three brothers in the leading social situation in Seattle, Washington. His father, a lawyer with companies that have many connections in the city, and his mother a teacher, who is active in charity activities. Bill's a smart boy, but he's too full of spirit and tend to often get into trouble at school. When she was eleven years old, her parents decided to make changes and send them to the Lakeside School, an elementary school special for a prestigious boys.
At Lakeside that Gates in 1968 for the first time introduced the world of computers, in the form of a teletype machine that connected to the phone to a computer time sharing. This machine, called ASR, 33, the situation is still the market. In essence this is a typewriter that students can enter into it commands sent to the computer; typed answers back to the teletype paper roll. This process is cumbersome, but change the lives of Gates. He was quick with the BASIC computer programming language, and hackers along with its own study on the Lakeside, he spent time with hours and hours writing programs, doing games, and generally learn a lot about computers. "He was a 'nerd' (eccentric)," as one of his teachers to give Gates the surname.
Around 1975, when Gates with Paul Allen at the school together to prepare the first software program for the micro computer. As the story in Popular Electronics about the "era of computers in homes" and they both believe is the future of software. This is the beginning of Microsoft. Communication is simple: Paul and Gates talk about coke and pizza. No one is seriously considering our opinions. Everything changed in the last two decades.
Gates still loves junk food, but he also spent two hours a day reading and answering electronic mail sent by Microsoft's 15,000 employees.
Also lots of emails from outside Microsoft.
Questions range from how the experience of a family (fun!), What I love movies (Schindler's List and Shadowlands), until the complicated questions that must be opened first book to be able to answer (by chance alone and also wrote a book!).
The problem, Gates spent the day answering emails and lectured or manage perusahaanya.
Gates tried to run both, but she has no chance to communicate with many diverse groups and lots of emails that could not be answered.
Gates was so glad to write because through this paper makes it able to communicate with a more diverse group without having to teredit until the dismembered or filtered by one's perception.
Reality, not all questions submitted via email.
Sometimes people intercepted at the airport or Gates pressed him to answer questions on computer fairs or school children to send letters to him.
A student recently asked a question that is important to him. What I want to know is not something that is very philosophical, as you probably guessed example of free market economy.
He just wanted to know, "whether Gates was too late dive into the software industry and build a company and become rich?".
Gates was pleased to have the question and the answer is always the same, "This is the time in business software."
Gates did not say you can build other Microsoft. But at least you can get a sales turnover of two million dollars per year with 10,000 copies sold products worth 200 dollars.
Pretty good and it can happen anytime.
Because Gates recalled how the pull start a software company, he also enjoys other people's success stories.
Small software company that always start slowly.
Company begins a person who has an idea. He is, man or woman, looking for some friends that know how to make their programs and then bringing forth a product.
There are so many works of art that they do because they care about the job.
Usually they make a product for one customer and because the results are satisfactory, they quickly got other buyers.
If you want to start a company, its main strategy find the right social environment.
Forget the desire to create a word processing program to write, or a spreadsheet program to analyze financial, or other major products have many competitors.
Instead, create a product that can help users to do specific jobs or can provide practical information in areas like pharmaceuticals, insurance, accounting, architecture or public administration.
Software like that bring a small fortune.
If you are not satisfied with a small fortune, you should come to the stage of the transition generation. This time it was expensive and risky.
Every few years a whole generation technology delivers a new road. Remember the emergence of the IBM PC in the early 1980s.
Microsoft's bet on the IBM PC would become important. Then Microsoft created MS-DOS operating system for IBM PC.
The result Microsoft has been the pioneer in software operating system.
No one ever heard of the Lotus to carry out a brilliant idea-generation change in the Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet to create the first designed specifically for the IBM PC.
Apple's Macintosh and Microsoft Windows is the next winner, when the world wants and leave the graphics processing long program that only displays text.
To get a big win, you also must concentrate on generational change, something that large firms are ignored. And the stakes are very expensive.
Recently the number of entrepreneurs who can use software to speculate computer users with a way to write by hand - no longer pressing on the letter - will become a new generation of word processing software there are spreadsheets.
They started creating new products that they think will win the competition. They were wrong. A big gamble. What should I recommend to a student who wants to become self-employed software?
Learn a string of an existing company.
Find your own social environment.
Get in touch with venture capital.
Find a smart person.
And do not forget the Coke and pizza.
Believe me, there will be plenty of work in the late evening.