5 huge just-missed-it business ideas

well another one to add the list would been the eye toy which playstation came up with round '03. Which if they followed up with could have beaten the  x box kinects which is basically the same concept.

could have  avoided them going into the finacial slump they're in but oh well.....

Note, by the way, that Xerox was late in the game, or missed out on a couple others as well.  They were one of the companies that originated Ethernet, yet were very late in getting products to market that exploited it, ceding it instead to DEC and Intel - who cashed in.  AND their Interpress page description language actually predated PostScript - but again, they never exploited it.  Palo Alto Reserach Center (PARC) has been brilliant - too bad the marketing couldn't keep up.

This shows you that having a good idea idea itself is not enough. You have to "foresee" the potential commercial sucess and sometimes invenrtors are not tha good at it.

 

The "window" systems was rotten in an IBM basement until somebody today a billionaire saw it improved and make commercial and today a high percentage of all computer on earth use windows.

 

 

 

telecom and tech,,,looking to the future...we r off to the races and things will change so fast the govrnment wont be able to keep up..facebook is the  new revolution

Those are big misses but obvious misses are Kodak inventing the digital camera and keeping with film (now almost bankrupt) and Rolex passing on the digital watch (Swatch took the idea producing watches for dirt cheap)

Bummer.  This great article reminds me of my missed opportunities.  The first was when as a student at a college in Pittsburgh, I let my uncle convince me not to transfer to a computer repair school because computers weren't going anywhere.    Another opportunity was when my uncle in Detroit tried to convince me to go into the computer field.  I didn't.  He ended up getting a computer degree, starting a company, and getting rich off Y2K.  Recently, four years ago Jessie J became one of my first MySpace friends.  I complimented one of her songs and missed the chance to compliment her on another because I found inerests in Facebook and Justin.tv.  Who knows where that could have gone as I watch her star rise.  So you can call me, Mr. Missed Opportunites Man.   

One of the companies you mention, IBM, owed it's original growth to a major competitor oversight:  I believe Remington turned down the revolutionary design of a typewriter using a ball instead of keys to print.  The Selectric typewriter drove IBM into the huge company stratosphere.