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	MICHAEL DELL - Founder, Chairman and CEO, Dell Computer Corporation (success story)
		Michael is 8: Michael makes a serious attempt to earn his high school diploma more quickly by passing a test and invites a person from a testing company.
		Today, Michael Dell is the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Dell Computer Corporation, the company he founded in 1984 with $1,000 and an unprecedented idea – to build relationships directly with customers.
		Michael Dell is the author of Direct From Dell: Strategies That Revolutionized an Industry, his story of the rise of the company and the strategies he has refined that apply to all businesses.
	www.1000ventures.com /business_guide/cs_entrepreneurs_dell.html (778 words)

	Corporate Swine, Inc.
		Michael Dell, founder and CEO of Dell Computers, one of the largest personal computers distributors in the country, is a bigtime supporter of George Bush and the US military.
		Dell has shown his loyalty to Bush by steering his company in a direction to help the military with their warfighting endeavors.
		Michael Dell was the keynote speaker at the US Air Force's annual information technology conference in 2002.
	www.corporateswine.net /dell.html (536 words)

	Michael & Susan Dell Foundation
		Michael Dell, born in February 1965, is the chairman of the Board of Directors of Dell, the company he founded in 1984 with $1,000 and an unprecedented idea - to build relationships directly with customers.
		Dell is the author of Direct From Dell: Strategies That Revolutionized an Industry, his story of the rise of the company and the strategies he has refined that apply to all businesses.
		Dell also serves on the U.S. President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology and the governing board of the Indian School of Business in Hyderabad, India.
	www.msdf.org /about/bio.aspx?id=39 (145 words)

	Michael Dell Success - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Michael Dell was speaking to an entrepreneurship class at the University of Texas business school when a bold student stood up and asked the young multibillionaire why he still kept going to work.
		Dell works standing up, appropriately enough for the CEO of a manufacturing company that has slashed inventory turnover to an astonishing seven days, compared with 80 days or more for much of his competition.
		Dell responded by hiring a cadre of big-league professional managers to help structure the company's explosive growth (87 percent per year for the first eight years; 55 percent per year since 1992).
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m3514/is_1_46/ai_53706787 (900 words)

	Michael Dell - AskMen.com
		Dell Computer is the largest personal computer company in the world and Michael Dell started it out of his dorm room some 15 years ago.
		Michael S. Dell, who founded the Dell Computer Corporation in 1984 with nothing more than $1,000 and an idea, serves as Chairman (he was also chief executive officer until 2004) of the fastest-growing major computer systems business in the world.
		Michael Dell is my mentor and I simply don't know of a more admirable bosss and billoniare with a sense of humility and leadership traits.
	www.askmen.com /men/january00/8_michael_dell.html (1059 words)

	Michael Dell's view from the top
		Dell won't say how long he plans to continue running his company, but another 20 years is not out of the question.
		Dell did the same thing at the beginning of the downturn in tech spending, launching a ferocious price war that some credit with the demise of longtime Texas nemesis Compaq, which was bought by Hewlett Packard, and the decline of rival Gateway Inc., whose market share dropped dramatically.
		Dell's story of starting a computer company with $1,000 and growing it to a $1 billion public company in less than 10 years already is the stuff of American business legend.
	www.statesman.com /business/content/business/stories/archive/0502dell.html (2974 words)

	Michael Dell takes back the CEO job - USATODAY.com
		Dell (DELL) shares fell 29% during his tenure.
		Dell shares were lower Thursday, falling 42 cents, or 1.7% to $23.80.
		In a statement, Michael Dell called Rollins, a 10-year company veteran, "a great business partner and friend." The two were so close they once linked their offices with a sliding glass door.
	www.usatoday.com /money/industries/technology/2007-01-31-dell-ceo_x.htm (471 words)

	Direct2Dell - Dell's Blog
		Michael made a brief initial appearance at Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco this morning during the keynote from Hector Ruiz, chairman and CEO of AMD.
		Michaelâs keynote will be available as a webcast after it happens.
		The good news is that we recently launched the Dell Wireless 5700 EVDO ExpressCard, which is compatible with the Verizon Wireless BroadbandAccess network.
	www.direct2dell.com /default.aspx (1540 words)

	The pragmatic radical \| Newsmakers \| CNET News.com
		Michael Dell, the chairman and CEO of namesake computer maker Dell, certainly knows how to fit his image to his company.
		Dell, the computer maker, is known as an execution marvel, which turned the lowly distribution channel into a key source of competitive advantage.
		He was far more comfortable talking about Dell's strategic moves into new markets and his disdain for competitors' grandiose visions of things such as utility computing.
	news.com.com /2008-1001_3-5110303.html (2133 words)

	National Press Club -- Michael Dell
		Michael Dell's breakthrough idea was to bypass the middleman and sell custom-built personal computers (PCs) directly to the customers.
		Dell Computer Corporation is now one of the top vendors of personal computers worldwide, with offices in 34 countries and more than 35,000 employees serving customers in 170 countries and territories.
		Dell is a member of the Board of Directors of the United States Chamber of Commerce, the World Economic Forum, and the Computerworld/Smithsonian Awards.
	www.npr.org /programs/npc/2000/000608.mdell.html (360 words)

	Michael Dell - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Michael Saul Dell (born February 23, 1965 in Houston, Texas) is the founder of Dell, Inc.
		Dell is the son of an orthodontist and grew up in a well-to-do Jewish family.
		In 1998 Michael Dell founded MSD Capital LP, a venture capital firm, to invest in various small companies on Dell's behalf.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Michael_Dell (609 words)

	Perhaps Michael Dell's plan to fix his company could use an upgrade - USATODAY.com
		Dell's position is like Frank Sinatra's in the 1960s: still a great swing crooner when the entire pop music industry had shifted to rock 'n' roll.
		Dell's core — the center of its cultural soul — is a relentless focus on being the lowest-cost maker and distributor of PCs.
		Dell in 2003 thought it could expand by applying its cultural core to a steady stream of new tech products, such as high-end computer servers, MP3 music players, handheld computers and printers.
	www.usatoday.com /money/industries/technology/maney/2007-02-06-dell-woes_x.htm (973 words)

	The 25 most powerful people in networking - MICHAEL DELL CEO, DELL COMPUTER, 01/04/99
		Michael's Dell story is one of those computer industry legends, like Apple and Hewlett-Packard being formed in garages and the first Compaq portable being sketched out on a napkin.
		Dell has turned his company into a $15 billion-plus industry giant that not only continues confounding Wall Street, but keeps shaking up rivals as well.
		Dell believes that Compaq's higher server margins are helping the company survive the brutal price and margin battles in the desktop arena, and he wants to take that crutch away.
	www.networkworld.com /news/power99/dell.html (417 words)

	BuzzMachine » Blog Archive » Dear Mr. Dell
		Dell, you got to big for your britches and you wanted to cut cost by hiring cheap help in foreign countries; however, you are charging big time bucks for worthless service.
		Michael Dell was an obnoxious used car salesman back then, and it appears that he hasn’t changed one bit.
		I called Dell, and the technician was barely listening to me, after 2 years this issue was unresolved and he said that he will be sending me a box and shipping label so that I can send it in to be repaird.
	www.buzzmachine.com /index.php/2005/08/17/dear-mr-dell (13320 words)

	Can Michael Dell Refocus His Namesake? - New York Times
		ON a recent afternoon at his company’s headquarters here, Michael S. Dell is seated in a spacious conference room named Dobie Hall — in honor of the University of Texas dormitory where, in 1984, he started the computer giant that bears his name.
		Dell was widely admired beyond the technology industry, and it was cited in business-school studies alongside companies like Wal-Mart Stores.
		Dell was attending the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, and when the board asked him to become chief executive, he agreed.
	www.nytimes.com /2007/09/09/technology/09dell.html?ex=1346990400&en=f94b0f99e5a76318&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss (1147 words)

	Michael Dell Biography
		Dell has also become one of the wealthiest people in the world with a 4th place listing on the Forbes rich Americans list in 2005 with an estimated worth of $18 billion.
		Michael Saul Dell was born on the 23rd of February, 1965 in Houston to an orthodontist father and a mother that worked as a money manager.
		Dell was interested in computers from a very young age and was already pulling them apart at the age of 15.
	www.woopidoo.com /biography/michael-dell/index.htm (827 words)

	Michael Dell - Valleywag
		Dell will lay off more than the 8,800 employees it originally estimated last year, CEO Michael Dell told analysts.
		Michael Dell is adding one more bronco to his stable, email backup service MessageOne.
		Dell's Michael Dell, EMC's Joe Tucci, Oracle's Larry Ellison, AMD's Hector Ruiz and Intel's Paul Otellini, drunk on power and hubris made the most upsetting corporate ad I seen to date.
	valleywag.com /tech/michael-dell (803 words)

	Face Time With Michael Dell
		Parents: Wanted Dell to be a doctor; father is an orthodontist, mother is a money manager Résumé highlight: Youngest CEO ever to have his company make the Fortune 500.
		From the moment you start negotiating time to interview Michael Dell at his company's Round Rock, Texas headquarters, his pr people warn you: Michael doesn't like personal questions.
		Dell, one of the great entrepreneurs of our era, can make even the most innocent question seem frivolous.
	www.fastcompany.com /online/44/dell.html (1091 words)

	Neville's Financial Blog: Meeting Michael Dell and Lance Armstrong
		Michael Dell's wife, Susan, is a tri-athlete and frequently goes bike riding with Lance Armstrong.
		Meeting with Michael Dell's Regional HR Manager, on the other hand, is a different (a much better) ballgame.
		One of the things that Michael Dell talked about in the lecture was how he didn't want to follow the paths set by others so he took the chance in college to start what he started.
	www.nevblog.com /2005/11/meeting-michael-dell-and-lance.html (3174 words)

	» Dell Charges $49 to Remove Their Own Spyware - www. Michael Righi .com
		Dell and its partner company lost my laptop but I was put under a flag in their database for not returning my laptop.
		Dell is not tricking anyone, we cater to a huge market place, and we have to consider that home users don’t have a lot of experience with computers and that very software helps them become more aclimated with their computer.
		DELL used to be a decent place to get a computer a few years ago but now there is not a single aspect of them that doesn’t suck.
	www.michaelrighi.com /2005/07/21/dell-spyware-my-way (13336 words)

	Washingtonpost.com: WashTech
		Michael Dell: The key to getting a PC that will last three years is to buy at the start of the product life cycle, not and the end.
		Michael Dell: We don't have any plans for wearable computers at the moment, but we will watch to see if there is great interest in this from customers.
		Michael Dell: I continue to think the industry will grow about 15-20 percent in unit terms for the next several years.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/washtech/longterm/worldcongress/dellqa.htm (1476 words)

	Dell: Apple should close shop - CNET News.com
		And at the Gartner Symposium and ITxpo97 here today, the CEO of competitor Dell Computer added his voice to the chorus when asked what could be done to fix the Mac maker.
		Dell's comments follow Steve Jobs's keynote address at the Seybold trade show last week in San Francisco, where the Apple cofounder seemed to win over attendees with his explanation of why he had made certain key decisions, killing the clone market and aligning more closely with Microsoft.
		Michael has been a bit of an idiot from time to time, but someone has kept Dell running as a company.
	www.news.com /Dell-Apple-should-close-shop/2100-1001_3-203937.html (894 words)

	Michael Dell - 20/20 HONOREES - CIO Magazine Oct 1,2002
		Michael Dell on CIO Radio on the future of computing.
		Dell's continued spectacular performance through the downturn makes the compelling argument that Michael Dell is the greatest entrepreneur of our time.
		That is why Michael Dell is different from you and me: his single-minded, unwavering focus and obsession for that one thing.
	www.cio.com /archive/100102/honoree_dev_dell.html (875 words)

	Michael Dell (3) - IT Channel - IT Channel News by CRN and VARBusiness
		Dell recently told a gathering of top corporate executives that his company has cut prices for certain break-fix and warranty services by 40 percent to 50 percent over the past year.
		Dell is adept at hiring the right managers to help him get the job done, says Michael Dunn, the former CTO of Dell Computer's online division, now CTO and executive vice president at Encoda Systems, Stamford, Conn. Nor should anyone underestimate the depth of his technical knowledge.
		Michael Dell had this advice for young entrepreneurs who gathered in Texas last summer: "First of all, don't start a business just because everybody else is doing it or it looks like it's a way to make a lot of money.
	www.crn.com /it-channel/18822011 (1356 words)

	An interview with reinstated CEO Michael Dell - Jan. 31, 2007
		Michael Dell is back at the helm of the company he founded.
		Dell insisted that "Kevin continues to be a friend and did great things for the company in the last 10 years, but now it's time for a change."
		"Dell is in a time when we really need to unify the leadership structure, simplify it, focus it, and really execute," the CEO said.
	money.cnn.com /2007/01/31/magazines/fortune/dell_back_as_CEO.fortune/index.htm (758 words)

	Michael Dell — Infoplease.com
		By targeting educated consumers (i.e., corporations and government agencies), Dell is able to avoid the expense of heavy investments in building and maintaining retail channel sales and the after-sale burden of supporting unsophisticated users, though the company has a well-deserved reputation for its technical support services.
		Dell's Big New Act Michael Dell, perhaps the most successful e-merchant in the world, wants to teach you and your company how to master......
		Dell Does Domination It's a terrible time to be selling computers--unless you're Michael Dell, who is slashing prices and stealing......
	www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0763659.html (420 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Business \| Michael Dell hands over CEO role
		Computer maker Dell has said its founder Michael Dell is to step aside as chief executive, although he will remain the company's chairman.
		Mr Dell will be replaced by Kevin Rollins, the firm's president and chief operating officer, from July.
		Mr Dell founded the firm 20 years ago when he was a student.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/business/3534197.stm (413 words)

	Michael Dell using Ubuntu on his personal machine - Engadget
		Not long at all after customers voiced their demands to have Linux pre-loaded across a wider spectrum of Dell machines, the company caved, and as we sit and ponder just what flavor of Linux will soon be available, we can't help but guess Ubuntu.
		According to Michael Dell's lineup of personal rigs, his prized Precision M90 is currently humming along with a copy of Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn at the helm, garnering speculation that it's at least in the hunt for being a Linux variety available on its forthcoming machines.
		Whether or not Michael Dell is actually looking into using Ubuntu as his OS of choice, it really is the best form of R&D. Try it yourself.
	www.engadget.com /2007/04/20/michael-dell-using-ubuntu-on-his-personal-machine (2078 words)

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