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Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days
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Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days

by Jessica Livingston
January 2007
Beginner content levelBeginner
472 pages
16h 43m
English
Apress
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CHAPTER 5Dan BricklinCofounder, Software Arts

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Dan Bricklin and his friend Bob Frankston founded Software Arts in 1979 to produce VisiCalc, the first electronic spreadsheet. Spreadsheets used to be made on paper. As a student at Harvard Business School, Bricklin thought how convenient it would be if they could be made on desktop computers instead. He wrote a prototype in Basic over a weekend, and then he and Frankston set about turning it into a product.

When their first release shipped in October 1979, it ignited the personal computer software revolution. VisiCalc was the "killer app" for personal computers: businesses ...

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