Many of us think if success comes from generation to generation. If our parents had a business so successful and significant, then we as a successor to inherit and carry forward only a success. That may be true, but not accurate. The success achieved from zero will feel more proud and a marker we are people who are pitching in and keen to see business opportunities.
What could a newspaper vending business can dominate the technology developed so and? Perhaps, as a concrete example, we can see the life of Michael Dell.
Youth Full of Struggle
Although born into a family is well off, Michael Saul Dell does not pass his youth to have fun every day. Men born February 23, 1965, has a father who works as a dentist and mother as a stockbroker.
Although father wanted to follow in his footsteps and little Michael a career in the health field, the interests and talents of Michael turned out to show different things. Since the age of 7 years, Michael loves technology, and at that age, he got his first calculator. An excellent tech objects and tickle the curiosity of a little Michael Dell.
Teenagers, Michael tried to earn money to work washing dishes in a restaurant Chinese food in Texas. Wages amounted to USD 2.3 per hour collected Michael then used to buy and collect stamps share. The hobby of collecting stamps brought it earn money worth $ 1,000 by selling the entire collection of stamps. The value of which is amazing is not it.
Despite running a side job and a hobby of collecting stamps, love Michael to computers and technology continues to evolve. After love to play the computer at Radio Shack, he got the Apple II as the first computer he had. High curiosity also led Michael to disassemble and reassemble the computer.
Glancing Technology Based Business Starting From Zero
Fate did not deliver someone in the highest position and Dell. Early in his career, he used to be a seller newspaper for several years. But his efforts to pursue the world of technology bore results. Having worked for the Houston Post as a newspaper seller, at 19, he took an important decision to start a computer business. Under the banner of PCs Limited and at the University of Texas dorm, Michael tried to sell assembled computers themselves with superior specs and an affordable price.
Unique technology business and can communicate with customers make PCs Limited can achieve great success and reap a gross turnover of USD 73 million. Michael developed the first computer product with a product called PC Turbo. In 1988, PCs Limited changed its name to Dell Computer Corporation. At the young age which is 27 years old, Michael Dell incised achievement as the youngest CEO of a large company in the list of Fortune magazine's top companies.
Providing Opportunities for the Next Generation
After over 15 years dealing with Dell Computer Corporation, in 2004 he resigned from the position of CEO and sit on the board of directors of the company Dell. But it does not deter Michael to keep track of all system management and operation of Dell Computer Corporation and trying to pick the right CEO for the betterment of the company. As events of the return of Michael to the CEO seat in 2007 when he replaced Kevin Rolling and tried to revive the Dell Corporation of adversity.
Now Dell has a lot of products innovation and business development. Not only sells personal computers, but Dell also spread to the provision of laptops, servers, cameras, televisions, MP3 and various other technology products. Proficiency Michael Dell in business and his interest in the technology can bring Dell Computer Corporation ranks 41 in the list of Fortune 500 Companies in 2011.
So, what can we learn from Michael Dell? What is evident at the beginning of our careers are not things that can determine the success of our lives later? There is still a long way and sometimes hard to follow. Pitch in and develop our interest in a positive way and useful.
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