Get skills to enter an emerging trendThis is one of the key lessons since the dawn of the current golden age of billion-dollar entrepreneurship. Allen and Gates tinkered with the emerging technology of personal computers while in high school together in Seattle. He wanted to be a pioneer in this emerging industry and convinced his friend Gates to join him on this venture. Imitate (or acquire) and improveWhen IBM decided to enter the PC industry, Gates found out that they needed an operating system. Allen and Gates bought one, improved it, licensed it to IBM, and became the center of the modern computing world.

Source: Forbes October 20, 2018 19:18 UTC