Software Art

 It is a software company founded by Don Bricklin and Bob Frankston in 1979.

 Dan Bricklin was born in 1951 and he is known as the father of spreadsheet.
 He was born in an entrepreneur Jewish Family. And began his college career with major in
mathematics and soon switched to computer science and graduated with bachelors of science in
electrical engineering and computer science from MIT in 1979.
 After his graduation he worked in the top renowned software companies and returned to education
in 1977 and obtained degree of MBA from Harvard Business School in 1977.

How the company was formed?

 During the freshmen year at Harvard Business School Dan Bricklin was attending the lecture of
finance.
 During class, Professor was creating a professor was creating financial model on black board with
lots of vertical and horizontal lines drawn to create table.
 When the professor used to find any error, he would have to erase and rewrite several sequential
entries in the table.
 So, Dan Bricklin realized that this process can be replicated on a computer using electronic spread
sheet.
 So, he paired up with Bob Frankston who himself was a graduate of MIT and also a serious plus a
very good friend of Bricklin and found software company called software art and developed their
first software VisiCalc (Visible Calculator).
 Moreover, besides VisiCalc software art developed TK-Solver, a numeric equation solving system in
which a given mathematical model is built to solve specific problem.
 By 1983 software art became the 13 th largest software company with $12 million in sales.