Michael S. Dell


Setting Priorities in a Sluggish Economy

Michael Dell talks about setting priorities, observing changes in customer behavior, and why now is probably a great time to start a company.

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Recent Articles about Michael S. Dell

Elon Musk Blasts Off

A big test for Elon Musk and SpaceX . Sometime today, SpaceX, the privately held rocket company started by Elon Musk, will Read more

Keep Your Company Secrets Under Lock and Key

A weekly look at the latest products and services designed to help you run a better business.  Read more

In This Issue

This month's letter from the editor.  Read more

26 Most Fascinating Entrepreneurs: Michael Dell

for being brilliantly straightforward  Read more

Does the Bell Toll for Dell?

For the first time in a long time, concerns about the vitality of the technology sector centered around the performance (or underperformance, that is) of ...  Read more

What Business Would You Start?

If you were to launch a business today, what would it be? That's the question Inc recently posed to some of the sharpest minds in the business world...  Read more

Building America’s Most Innovative Brands

Harvard's guru on outstanding American entrepreneurship analyzes the country's best brands, ponders the challenges of Groupon-era consumer empowerment, and e...  Read more

Beyond the Idea; Why Execution Intelligence is What Matters

A quote from my last p...  Read more

Entrepreneurs in the News

The latest news on James Sun, Michael Dell, and Mitchell Binder  Read more

The Entrepreneur of the Year

Profiles of the winners of Inc.'s first national company-building achievement award. (1989)  Read more

The Young Entrepreneur's Survival Kit

As Emily Barker notes in Inc. magazine's October 20...  Read more

The Entrepreneur's New Clothes

Each day, Inc.'s reporters scour the Web for the most important and interesting news to entrepreneurs. Here's what we found today: ...  Read more

CEOs of Fast-Growing Companies See Bright Future for Entrepreneurship

March 23, 2005 --The temperature in Tucson was high, as was the level of debate inside this year's 23rd annual Inc. 500 conference, where ...  Read more

More HP Rumor Mill!

It shouldn't be called "mergers and acquisitions." It's more like "mergers and acquisitions… and rumors… and speculation."  Ever since ...  Read more

The Really Bad News about Bad Customers

It's nice to grow your client list, but if you're filling it with clients who don't line up with your company's goals and mission, you may find yourself in t...  Read more

Dell: The Secrets to His Success

Direct from Dell, by Michael Dell with Catherine Fredman HarperCollins, 235 pages, $26 Michael Dell has been trying to impro...  Read more

The Great Leaders Series: Michael Dell, Founder of Dell Computer

Michael Dell founded one of the world's most well-known computer companies from his college dorm room.  Read more

How to Ensure Your Business Succeeds You

It takes vision, succession planning, and talent development to continue a company to the next decade of leaders.  Read more

The Innovation Upstarts

The growing diversity of computer consumers is attributed to the strength of small, focused microcomputer companies.  Read more

Can Google+ Help Your Business?

Just when you thought you understood Facebook there is a new social network to utilize. Learn some tips for for increasing your brand on Google+.  Read more

Book Value: Coaching Success

Several books explore how business leaders can learn from the strategies employed by successful sport coaches.  Read more

Editor's Letter: Take Two

When companies stumble, they bring back the founder.  Read more

Leveraging the Cloud as You Grow

The cloud is a business owners best friend, especially in times of fast growth. But using the cloud presents some challenges as well.  Read more

Ikea's Appeal

Something in Forbes' recent ranking of the world's richest billionaires truly shocked me. There at number four is Ingvar Kamprad, the 79-year-old Swede wh...  Read more

Dropping Back In

A few college students have special extracurricular activities: running their own companies. They're former dropouts dropping back in.  Read more

Ask Inc.

Whether college degrees matter; b-to-b telemarketing lives on.  Read more

In Our Time

A timeline listing some of the most significant events in business from 1979 to 1999.  Read more

The Most-Admired Entrepreneurs

Attendees of this year's Inc. 500 Conference were asked to list the three active entrepreneurs whom they most admire. Not surprisingly, fellow Read more

Steve Jobs, Apple Computer, Pixar

because we like to be seduced  Read more

The Dos and Don’ts of Dorm Room Enterprise

Thinking about starting a college business? Learn from these Inc. 5000 CEOs that did it big.  Read more

Desperation Capitalism

What do Clorox and Apple Computer have in common? Both were launched by bootstrappers-- and here are some other bootstrapping Hall of Famers.  Read more

Twitter Creator Takes on PayPal

Twitter founder's next big thing . Jack Dorsey, the co-founder and former CEO of Twitter, says he "hate[s] getting change." So yesterday, he announc...  Read more

When a CEO is the Brand

Martha Stewart's recent conviction has Wharton professors debating th...  Read more

Avoiding the Tipping Point

Anyone who has ever been with a growing company from its early start-up days to any measure of significant size has undoubtedly experienced the tipping p...  Read more

26 Most Fascinating Entrepreneurs: Muriel Siebert

for rewriting the rules for husband-and-wife teams  Read more

26 Most Fascinating Entrepreneurs: Jack Mitchell

for rewriting the rules for husband-and-wife teams  Read more

When You Are the Middleman, How Not to Get Cut Out

Being a distributor in the age of the Internet and overnight shipping is a risky proposition. Here's how to secure your place and add value to your company.  Read more

Michael Dell, Dell Computer

for being brilliantly straightforward  Read more

When It's Time Leave the (Home) Office

There are two kinds of entrepreneurs; those who like working at home, and those who don't. Here's how to know when it's time to go.  Read more

From Employee to Entrepreneur

When I graduated from Rutgers University in 1985 with a degree in electrical engineering, I immediately did what came naturally back then: I joined a larg...  Read more