Although John has seen tremendous success he takes equal pride in the projects he's involved himself in that didn't come to fruition.  Gotts is quoted as saying, "As Edison failed 10,000 times before getting the light bulb to work, so must an inventor/entrepreneur have the tenacity and drive to respect failure as a learning experience and not as a direct and immediate reason to give up.  Venture capital firms expect to get a big win on perhaps two or three of ten investments.  My successful ventures fund the experimentation of the less-successful ventures and I always come away smarter and wiser, which is valuable unto itself and lends itself to future endeavors."  With that attitude John has self-funded his own start-ups for the better part of two decades and continues to innovate today as a self-made, self-educated inventor and business person.  You can find information on BijoBee at Twitter.com/BijoBee and BijoBee.Blogspot.com.

John was invited to LaunchSiliconValley.org on June 9th to showcase his latest foray into the Web search market with www.bijobee.com, which is a refinement system for Google search.  Bijobee was invited to present its business case for investment as one of thirty companies from more than four hundred that applied to attend.  Bijobee is now incorporated, John has moved to Palo Alto to work with lawyers, advisers, consultants, a new CEO candidate and his new marketing team.  The engineering team continues to innovate and make improvements and Bijobee traffic is now growing worldwide and will soon be in multiple languages to cater to its growing audience.

John Gotts has a profound love for business and has since riding his skateboard to E.F. Hutton at ten years old, where he learned to read and understand the Wall St. Journal from one of the stock brokers in the office.  At this age he would also spend time at the public library pouring over annual reports and  later discuss interesting businesses he'd read about with this father.  While living in Sun Valley, Idaho in 1994 to 1997 John Gotts wrote a stock trading newsletter called TrendTrading.com, the domain to which is now used as a popular trading service often seen advertised on CNBC and other business channels and which at the time John owned the domain focused on core blue-chip stocks, which John would buy or short based on historical charts and trends.

John is also an avid high-speed snowboarder and enjoys playing the guitar and singing karaoke.  You can find more about John at his LinkedIn page, johngotts.blogspot.com or on Twitter.