"While many businesses have modest beginnings, Dell says risk-taking focused his mind. "If you want to really make it big, you better come up with something unique," Michael Dell, the founder, chairman, and CEO of Dell Technologies, told Fortune in a 2017 interview. "It better be differentiated-that nobody else is doing." His other piece of advice for entrepreneurs is to take feedback with a grain of salt."
"To please his parents, Dell took up pre-med at the University of Texas in 1983, according to Entrepreneur. But Dell had long been fascinated by computers and technology, having disassembled an Apple II model at the age of 15 to see how it worked, according to a 1999 biography, Direct From Dell: Strategies That Revolutionized an Industry. It was at the age of 19 that Dell started selling upgrade kits for personal computers to other students in his dorm-a move that launched his tech empire."
Michael Dell left college to pursue computer entrepreneurship after starting by selling upgrade kits to dorm-mates at age 19. He had been fascinated by technology since disassembling an Apple II at 15 and enrolled in pre-med to please his parents. Dell invested about $1,000 and assembled a manufacturing team of "three guys with screwdrivers sitting at six-foot tables." He emphasizes embracing risk, accepting failure, and trusting gut instincts rather than seeking consensus. Dell counsels entrepreneurs to pursue unique, differentiated ideas and avoid asking potential naysayers for validation, believing many will discourage novel concepts.
Read at Fortune
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]