Dan Bricklin


Recent Articles about Dan Bricklin

Wiki + spreadsheet = ?

Tired of e-mailing a spreadsheet back and forth between folks in your office? One of Inc.'s very favorite entrepreneurs, Read more

Spreadsheets for Everyone

Dan Bricklin, the co-creator of VisiCalc , the first business application written for personal computers...  Read more

Better Search Terms

Dan Bricklin has a new way for small companies to increase their online visibility.  Read more

Newsbreakers

News blurbs about start-ups and ESOP plans in Lithuania.  Read more

My Company, My Self

The founder of two defunct software companies reflects on growing too fast, staying small, and facing losses.  Read more

Software Arts Wrote The First Best-seller

Dan Bricklin and Bob Fanskton cracked the micro-software market wide open with a program called VisiCalc.  Read more

Inc. Reads

Hillary Johnson writes in the August 2005 issue of Inc . that some of the smartest people she's met, she's met by reading their weblogs. As a comple...  Read more

The Birth Of An Industry

Working in their attics, basements, and garages, seven entrepreneurs tacked together a totally new industry.  Read more

Those Were The Days

Remember when bankruptcy meant you were broke? When John De Lorean was just a GM exec with a dream? When you thought a silicon chip was a new kind of snack f...  Read more

The Enigma of Entrepreneurial Wealth

Essay on entrepreneurial wealth; adapted from Recapturing the Spirit of Enterprise.  Read more

What Business Would You Start?

Nearly 50 business luminaries, ranging from H. Ross Perot to Ed McMahon, are asked what businesses to start.  Read more

14 Inventors We Love

Many inventors--the Edisons and Bells of the world--command our respect. But here is a look at 14 inventors, only some of whom are well known, that command s...  View slideshow

Weblog Resources

Here are a few resources to help get you started in blogging. How-To Guides The following books, all widely available, focus primarily on ...  Read more

Organizational Behavior

This article examines various personal-information-manager software packages and how they may match your work style.  Read more

It's Time To Join The Computer Age

You've heard it before, but this time it's true. Even the smallest businesses can use these tiny machines and off-the-shelf programs productively.  Read more

The New Software: A Powerful Ally

These little disks can help you analyze finances and manage information.  Read more

TechnoFile: Writing Well on the Web

If there's one thing everybody knows about the Web by now, it's that people read differently online than they do on paper. Why, then, do so many bu...  Read more

TechnoFile: Writing Well on the Web

If there's one thing everybody knows about the Web by now, it's that people read differently online than they do on paper. Why, then, do so many bu...  Read more

Coming Of Age

Entrepreneurs and business experts discuss how the 80s changed the way they think about business.  Read more

Risky Business

A venture capitalist discusses marketplace trends and the venture capital business.  Read more

The Apple Tree

How Apple Computer contributed to the founding of more than 100 companies by its employees.  Read more