Adam Osborne - Famous Entrepreneur of the Week

Adam Osborne was an entrepreneur most famously known for the first portable computer, but also was an author who made a successful move into publishing computer books and software. The spectacular success and subsequent failure of his computer company led to the coinage of the term "Osborne Effect" to describe the negative impact of announcing a future product too soon. But was that really the cause of Osborne's downfall? Read more...