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"Michael Dell dropped out of school in order to focus full-time on his fledgling business, after getting about $300,000 in expansion-capital from his family."
by revorad 16y ago
"Michael Dell dropped out of school in order to focus full-time on his fledgling business, after getting about $300,000 in expansion-capital from his family."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Dell http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Dell
- ido 16y agoWasn't that quite a lot of money in 1984 dollars (maybe closer to $1m in 2010 dollars)? It's less than what you'd normally get from VCs but it's still a lot more funding than a couple of guys in a basement living off of ramen.
- staunch 16y ago$629,483 http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl