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  4. About Dell

    Dell Inc. (DELL 4331), an American technology company based in Round Rock, Texas, develops, manufactures, sells, and supports personal computers, servers, data storage devices, network switches, personal digital assistants (PDAs), software, televisions, computer peripherals, and other technology-related products. As of 2006, Dell employed more than 78,700 people worldwide.

    Dell grew through the 1980s and 1990s to become at one stage the largest seller of PCs and servers. It currently holds the second spot in the hardware computer industry behind Hewlett-Packard after the latter's merger with Compaq in 2002.

    In 2006, Fortune magazine ranked Dell as the 25th-largest company in the Fortune 500 list, 8th on its annual [http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/mostadmired/top20/ Top 20 list] of the most-admired companies in the United States. In 2007 Dell ranked 34th and 8th respectively on the equivalent lists for the year. A 2006 publication identified Dell as one of 38 high-performance companies in the S&P; 500 which had consistently out-performed the market over the previous 15 years.

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    2. Incumbents die due to irrelevance or ineptitude

      Explore cdixon.org (Apr 26 2012) Marketing

      ...se relevance, or because they lose visionary founders and the organization decays. Some examples: - Dell thrived when PCs dominated the computer market and [...] Incumbents die due to irrelevance or inept... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Lycos   Dell   Yahoo

    3. 7 Reasons Startups Should Not Take VC Funding - Advice from a Serial Entrepreneur

      Explore Silicon Valley Watcher (Apr 16 2012) Funding , Marketing , Productivity

      ... a contrarian view. And some of you are saying that might be fine for a small company. Don't forget Dell, HP, Microsoft all originally started without VC funding; you can build a big business with bootstr... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Dell   Microsoft

    4. Nine Startup Tips From Michael Dell

      Explore Business Insider (Jan 30 2012)

      ...tages. You can read about the variable impact of the various forms of innovation in Fast Followers. Dell's primary innovations were operational. It devised made-to-order factories that allowed customers, ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Jeff Bezos   Hollywood   Dell

    5. 8 Ways to Finance Your Startup with Debt: Part 1

      Explore Small Business News, Tips, Advice (Jan 20 2012) Marketing

      8 Ways to Finance Your Startup with Debt: Part 1 ...rade credit – which is also referred to as vendor credit – would be a line of credit at Staples, or Dell, or any other company where you need to purchase their goods or services for your business. There ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Dell

    6. 4 friendly startup tips from Carbonite’s CEO

      Explore Business News (Dec 1 2011) Marketing

      ...those were consumer products. And in fact any of those early companies, any of them could have been Dell, could have been Compaq. But they didn’t (go there). And part of that is just the making that trans... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Boston   General Catalyst   Dell

    7. Lithium Technologies: How Funding Supercharges A Business – with Kirk Yokomizo

      Explore mixergy.com (Sep 12 2011)

      Lithium Technologies: How Funding Supercharges A Business – with Kirk Yokomizo ...was cold calling new customers and telling them about the Lithium story, and really leveraging what Dell had already done. I think AT&T was a very early customer and one would expect them to take us throu... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   AOL   Dell   Microsoft

    8. Business Model Analysis, Part 2: Platforms and Network Effects

      Explore Platforms and Networks (Jul 23 2011)

      Business Model Analysis, Part 2: Platforms and Network Effects ...nt switching costs. For example, when switching from one Windows-compatible PC to another—say, from Dell to Compaq—a user need not invest in new application software. By contrast, switching to a rival pla... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   IBM   China   Dell

    9. Launching And Scaling In A Down Economy – with Bill Loumpouridis

      Explore mixergy.com (May 25 2011)

      Launching And Scaling In A Down Economy – with Bill Loumpouridis ...o business, they sell to consumers. You can go out to the Web and buy a copy of Office, right. When Dell needs a copy of Office, their employees don’t go out and buy it in the same way that you do. They h... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Palm   Oracle   Marc Benioff

    10. Your Toughest Competitor May be Your Best Partner

      Explore Startup Professionals Musings (May 4 2011) Marketing

      Your Toughest Competitor May be Your Best Partner ...here they believe they can minimize costs but not jeopardize their unique attributes. For instance, Dell and HP are strong competitors on notebook computers, but both offer Intel processors, rather than b... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   IBM   Intel   Dell

    11. Ten Tips to Kick-Start Your Startup With Twitter

      Explore Startup Professionals Musings (Dec 10 2010) Marketing

      Ten Tips to Kick-Start Your Startup With Twitter ...as you like, and mine the database at very low cost for useful information. Even big companies like Dell and HP use it to find customers, and claim million dollar returns. It’s a valuable resource for eve... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Dell   Google   Marty Zwilling

    12. Interspire: How Two Programmers Who Met In A Chat Room Bootstrapped A $10 Mil eCommerce Company – With Mitchell Harper

      Explore mixergy.com (Dec 9 2010) Marketing

      Interspire: How Two Programmers Who Met In A Chat Room Bootstrapped A $10 Mil eCommerce Company – With Mitchell Harper ... about 20,000 clients on the Interspire side of the business. Big names are G.E., McCaughey, Shell, Dell, Kraft, Ticketmaster, Virgin, Orange. Pretty much a lot of the Fortune 500 companies, but also thou... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Marc Benioff   Australia   AOL

    13. Startup Wisdom From Babson Entrepreneurship Forum

      Explore On Startups by Dharmesh Shah (Nov 15 2010)

      ...em through social media. Don’t be afraid to do it wrong and mess it up at first. Just try it out. Dell and most of the other companies who started using Twitter early on screwed it up. They learned fro... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Laura Fitton   Babson College   Seattle

    14. VC Discusses His Many Hits, Plus One Miss – with Steven Dietz

      Explore mixergy.com (Jul 27 2010)

      VC Discusses His Many Hits, Plus One Miss – with Steven Dietz ...it.” My partner Yves is the one who really had the epiphany that that sounds very much like the way Dell used to, or still does, sell computers. You order it, and then they build it. We decided this might... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Henry Ford   San Francisco   Sunnyvale

    15. Why We Prefer Founding CEOs

      Explore ben's blog (Apr 28 2010)

      ...e—John Warnock * Amazon – Jeff Bezos * AMD—Jerry Sanders III * Apple – Steve Jobs * DEC—Ken Olsen * Dell—Michael Dell * EA—Trip Hawkins * EDS —Ross Perot * Hewlett-Packard—Dave Packard * IBM—Thomas Watson, Sr. (*) * I... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Jeff Bezos   Oracle   Larry Ellison

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