Michael S. Dell


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 story

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 story

In This Issue

This month's letter from the editor.  Read story

The Entrepreneur of the Year

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

The Young Entrepreneur's Survival Kit

As Emily Barker notes in Inc. magazine's October 2000 cover ...  Read story

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 story

Twenty-Six Entrepreneurs We Love, Leading Your Company Article - Inc. Article

Inc. magazine goes behind the scenes with 26 entrepreneurs who best exemplify the extraordinary drive, creativity, and passion of Ameri...  Read story

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 story

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 story

The Innovation Upstarts

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

Book Value: Coaching Success

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

The Dos and Don’ts of Dorm Room Enterprise , inc5000 Article - Inc. Article

The college dropout turned billionaire is a tale that's becoming stale. Sergey Brin and Larry Page famously dropped out of Stanford's Ph.D. program...  Read story

Dropping Back In

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

Ask Inc.

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

In Our Time

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

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 story

Steve Jobs, Apple Computer, Pixar

because we like to be seduced  Read story

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 story

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 story

Michael Dell, Dell Computer

for being brilliantly straightforward  Read story

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 story

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 story

Professors Get Their Shares

Professors of entrepreneurship often invest in their students' start-ups. Here are some of the guidelines they follow, their methods of investing, and the re...  Read story

How to Become a Household Name

Forget expensive advertising campaigns. The best way to reach the masses is often through free media coverage. So what does it take to get on Oprah?  Read story

America's Favorite Hometown Businesses

When it comes to businesses that are charming, idiosyncratic, and lovable, Main Street still has a monopoly. To celebrate America's great unsung small compan...  Read story

The Best Small Business Blogs

Check out these business blogs for advice from entrepreneurs who have been there and done that.  Read story

The Power of Innovation

How will entrepreneurs change the world?  Read story

Young Founders

If entrepreneurship were a political movement, these would be its hard-liners -- single-minded, successful, and a little bit scary.  Read story

A New Kind of Company

B Corporations worry about stakeholders, not just shareholders.  Read story

Competitive Edge: 'I'm Smarter Than Michael Dell'

Can a smart kid with a plan to be the first to introduce cutting-edge laptops into the market beat Mr. Dell?  Read story

The Sacred and the Mundane

Icons of business prove that the more things change, the more the important stuff remains the same.  Read story

Catching Up to the New Economy

For much of the past decade, Harvard University has seemed reluctant to acknowledge the new economy. But a few ambitious graduates are trying to change that.  Read story

Flexible Fliers

A profile of the 1995 Master Entrepreneur of the Year winners and the runner-up.  Read story

Motherhood, Apple Pie Stock Options

Although stock options are widely used to attract quality employees, they can have negative effects on your company if employees misunderstand them of if the...  Read story

Survival of the Fastest

Just because you're an Internet business in the digital economy doesn't mean you've got it made in the shade. A panel of E-commerce experts warns of treacher...  Read story

Any Given Start-Up

In years past, only a Super Bowl ring could light up the eyes of a burly football player. Now he's just as likely to perk up over a new dot-com. Pro athletes...  Read story

Small Is the New Big

Like a lot of entrepreneurs, Jay Goltz couldn't imagine doing anything but building his company as big and as fast as possible--until it almost destroyed him.  Read story

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