Citation Press--Rags to Riches

"I learned a lot from my first mistake. I learned to recognize what can be done and what cannot be done," he reflects. Even so, he was not one to give up easily.

Soon, Tran went back to work for another printing company. He enrolled in Small Business Administration-sponsored classes and began to save money for his next startup. "I knew that I could create future opportunities for both myself and for other people," he remembers. In 1984, he was ready to try again.