Secret Strategies Of The Gurus : Guru 1 - Bill Gates As A Small Business Entrepreneur by Rick Tanzo

Published: 28th October 2009
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A Personal Computer on every desk.
By the way, I did not want to use the grammatically correct expression comes hell or high water for personal reason so excuse my grammatical preference. Anyway, lets go back to our subject. When you have a vision, you can make the impossible possible.
Almost everybody is familiar about how once upon a time the small business entrepreneur Bill Gates secured mighty IBMs contract to supply the latters operating system. When he was negotiating with the IBM people, he had no operating system as yet. He was able to buy a Disk Operating System or DOS for 50 thousand. In the end, he got the contract. Why
Bill Gates was guided by his vision that every desk all over the world should have a computer on it. This vision enabled him to provide IBM with a DOS operating system and have control over it including to whom he wanted it sold to.
Beginning Entrepreneur:
Before he became an entrepreneur, Bill Gates had nurtured the vision that software will one day rule the world. During high school he spent many late nights with friend Paul Allen tinkering with the schools computer system.

He dropped out of college after completing his junior year at Harvard. Instead, he and his bosom friend Paul Allen set up a small business a software company in far away New Mexico. This move was in accordance with his vision.
His vision became clearer as he moved from a total newbie to one with a small business to keep. His vision was clothed in clearer terms, as he negotiated the DOS deal with IBM.
Better late than never
Bill Gates company ultimately became the leader in the software arena. During the first half of the 1990 1993 to be exact he was among the last of the software titans to acknowledge the future significance of the Internet.
But once he did realize that indeed Internet was the wave of the future, he had the tenacity to reshape his vision. His vision retained its old flavor - that is, software dominance in commerce, industry and in every field. It was rehashed in his own words as follows:
In the years ahead, the Internet will have
an even more profound effect on the way

we work, live and learn this technology
will be one of the key cultural and economic
forces of the early 21st century.
At this moment in time, Bill Gates is guided by the vision that the Internet is the wave of the present and the foreseeable future.
Lessons Learned:
You can learn from Bill Gates by having your own vision for your small business. Lay down this vision in your mind. Then put it into writing. Read your vision everyday while at work in your small corner of the house. Your vision could be as short term as the following
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