Michael's Story About the Apple Computer

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Michael has always been driven to understand how things work at their component level. When he was in about seventh grade, i really got fascinated with the whole idea of computers. The fun thing about the apple too, is that it was completely programmable. And you could take it apart easily, and every circuit in the machine was easily understood.

The first stage of building up a business is to break things down. Michael Dell started a computer company in his dorm room by cracking open some early IBM PCs and figuring out what he could do better, faster, and cheaper. Then he did the same thing to the entire model of computer sales. Learn from Dell how to revolutionize an industry — using deconstruction to gain insight your competitors lack, and then building something bigger and better.

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