Big Time Failure to Big Time Success

It's nice to see a human side to the people who are now the industry leaders. Take this story about one of Bill Gates earlier ventures called the "Traf-O-Data." Aside from having a terrible name the idea actually ended up as a moderate success. The first real demonstration, however, ended in Mr. Gates begging his mom to explain to the demo participants that it actually worked earlier.

As we all know, Microsoft was later founded and the rest is history. Just because one idea doesn't pan out exactly the way you hoped it would is no reason to completely give up. Technology changes rapidly and new opportunities show themeselves all the time.