2006-08-17 03:17:10 · 8 answers · asked by tatss14 1 in Business & Finance ➔ Investing
The reason Microsoft got big was a mistake made by IBM, which decided to outsource the development of DOS instead of developing it in-house. Without the DOS franchise (which eventually became the Windows franchise) handed to it by IBM on a silver platter, Microsoft would be just another Borland or WordPerfect.
So the answer to your question is rather obvious; you can start any business, provided that a Fortune 500 company puts you into a dominant position not only over itself, but over the entire industry it is trying to create at the moment. But how likely to happen is that?
2006-08-17 06:07:37 · answer #1 · answered by NC 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you start of like Bill Gates, and have a USD$3 million trust fund, you might stand a chance in any industry.
The answer is any emerging trend. The trick is knowing what the trend is, and working on it for 18 hours a day. If you're wrong, then you're 80% of the business owners out there. If you're right, and your mother is on the board of IBM (like Bill Gates's was) then you might have a Microsoft.
But most likely not.
2006-08-17 10:40:59 · answer #2 · answered by ? 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Do you already have the money Microsoft had in the very beginning?
2006-08-17 22:37:41 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Trust me. If I knew I'd already be doing it.
2006-08-17 10:22:18 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your focus should really be what businesses?
2006-08-17 10:43:46 · answer #5 · answered by kcincon 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If I knew that, do you really think I'd tell you?
2006-08-17 10:22:08 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2006-08-17 10:22:41 · answer #7 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2006-08-17 10:24:22 · answer #8 · answered by asd_5_98 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋