Editing Dan Bricklin (section)

==Career==

===Software Arts===

In 1979, Bricklin and Frankston founded Software Arts, Inc., and began selling VisiCalc, via a separate company named [[VisiCorp]]. Along with Frankston, Bricklin started writing versions of the program for the Tandy TRS-80, Commodore PET and the Atari 800. Soon after its launch, VisiCalc became a fast seller at $100.<ref name="EI" /><ref name="Inventors" />

Software Arts also published [[TK/Solver]]<ref>a numeric equation solving system</ref> and Spotlight, a desktop organizer for the IBM Personal Computer."<ref name="TK2.NYT">{{Cite news |last=David E. Sanger |date=April 9, 1985 |title=Lotus Set to Acquire Software Arts |work=[[The New York Times]] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1985/04/09/business/lotus-set-to-acquire-software-arts.html}}</ref>

Bricklin was awarded the [[Grace Murray Hopper Award]] in 1981 for VisiCalc. Bricklin could not patent VisiCalc, since software inventions were not eligible for patent protection at the time.

Bricklin was chairman of Software Arts until 1985, the year that Software Arts was acquired by [[Lotus Development Corporation|Lotus]].<ref name=TK2.NYT/> He left and founded Software Garden.

===Software Garden===
Dan Bricklin founded Software Garden, a small consulting firm and developer of software applications, in 1985. The company's focus was to produce and market “Dan Bricklin's Demo Program”. The program allowed users to create demonstrations of their programs before they were even written, and was also used to create tutorials for Windows-based programs. Other versions released soon after included demo-it! He remained the president of the company until he co-founded Slate Corporation in 1990. In 1992, he became the vice president of [[Phoenix, Arizona|Phoenix]]-based<ref name="PhoenixAtHand">{{Cite news |last=Peter H. Lewis |date=February 9, 1992 |title=The Executive Computer; Stunning Spreadsheet, Minus Keyboard |work=[[The New York Times]] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/02/09/business/the-executive-computer-stunning-spreadsheet-minus-keyboard.html}}</ref> Slate corporation, and developed ''At Hand'', a [[pen-based]] spreadsheet.<ref name=PhoenixAtHand/> When Slate closed in 1994, Bricklin returned to Software Garden.<ref name="EI" />

His "''Dan Bricklin's Overall Viewer''" (described by ''The New York Times'' as "a visual way to display information in Windows-based software")<ref name="NYT94">{{Cite news |last=Glenn Rifkin |date=November 13, 1994 |title=Sound Bytes; The Serenity of a Loner |work=[[The New York Times]] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/11/13/business/sound-bytes-the-serenity-of-a-loner.html}}</ref> was released in November 1994.

==={{visible anchor|Trellix}} Corporation===
In 1995 Bricklin founded [[Trellix (1995–2004)|Trellix Corporation]], named for ''Trellix Site Builder''.<ref name="Trellix.BuildNYT">{{Cite news |last=Larry Magid |date=December 18, 2003 |title=Setting Out the Welcome Mat at Your Home on the Web |work=[[The New York Times]] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/18/technology/basics-setting-out-the-welcome-mat-at-your-home-on-the-web.html |quote=.. to create .. web pages with a tool called Trellix Site Builder.}}</ref>

Trellix was bought by Interland (now [[Web.com]]) in 2003, and Bricklin became Interland's [[chief technology officer]] until early 2004.<ref name="EI" />

===Current work===
Bricklin continues to serve as president of Software Garden, a small company that develops and markets software tools he creates, as well as providing speaking and consulting services.

He has released [http://www.notetakerhd.com Note Taker HD], an application that integrates handwritten notes on the Apple [[iPad]] tablet.

He is also developing [[wikiCalc]], a collaborative, basic spreadsheet running on the Web.

He is currently the chief technology officer of [[Alpha Software]] in Burlington, Massachusetts, a company that creates tools to easily develop cross-platform mobile business applications.