Please bear with me. You need to hear a little bit of a story, before we can talk about success and failure.

Timm Murray will be giving a talk on using Perl on a Raspberry Pi to control an Arduino to make drones and robots. 

[From my blog.]

When you are starting up a business, automate as much as you can. You’ll have enough headaches along the way even if you automate everything, so save yourself some trouble up front and automate as much as you can figure out how to automate. Here are some examples:

Use a software based calendaring system to remind you about everything you have going on. Not just the usual stuff such as meetings and dentist appointments…