I saw Mark Cuban speak last week, and he talked about driving to Austin to meet Michael Dell to buy computers out of his dorm (Cuban was then running a systems

I saw Mark Cuban speak last week, and he talked about driving to Austin to meet Michael Dell to buy computers out of his dorm (Cuban was then running a systems integration business). He leveraged some family cash, but the guy is scrappy. Interestingly, Cuban's entire keynote was on why you shouldn't take VC money (at an event sponsored by VCs). Nothing that hasn't been said here before, but still quite good.