He said he never sought lot of advice because if he had gone and asked people what he was about to do and work, they would have told him it wouldn't work and dissuaded him from taking up the venture. "I would experiment experiment, test, go fast, fail fast. Planning is fine but generally over-rated," said Dell, who founded the company as a student. --Michael Dell's Advice to Indian Entrepreneurs
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Planning is fine, but generally over-rated
He said he never sought lot of advice because if he had gone and asked people what he was about to do and work, they would have told him it wouldn't work and dissuaded him from taking up the venture. "I would experiment experiment, test, go fast, fail fast. Planning is fine but generally over-rated," said Dell, who founded the company as a student. --Michael Dell's Advice to Indian Entrepreneurs
https://www.brighttalk.com/clients/js/embed/embed.js
When I was at Dell I worked in strategy and M&A, so speaking publically was not really in the job description. Nonetheless, I pitched in with my marketing friends from time-to-time, as in this talk going over cloud as Dell saw it and advice for users.
(Source: https://www.brighttalk.com/)
https://www.brighttalk.com/clients/js/embed/embed.js
When I was at Dell I worked in strategy and M&A, so speaking publically was not really in the job description. Nonetheless, I pitched in with my marketing friends from time-to-time, as in this talk going over cloud as Dell saw it and advice for users.
(Source: https://www.brighttalk.com/)
Lazy robots, or, Is cloud meeting your expectations?
As I mentioned earlier, Roy and and I had a webinar today about Dell's cloud portfolio and strategies. Here's a recording of it, enjoy.
And, there's also one on DevOps, from Barton and Willis.
Lazy robots, or, Is cloud meeting your expectations?
As I mentioned earlier, Roy and and I had a webinar today about Dell's cloud portfolio and strategies. Here's a recording of it, enjoy.
And, there's also one on DevOps, from Barton and Willis.
How GitHub runs itself
In that I work at BigCo that wants to transform, with lots of software in our future, I think a lot about this talk:
From the 2012 Monktoberfest.
How GitHub runs itself
In that I work at BigCo that wants to transform, with lots of software in our future, I think a lot about this talk:
From the 2012 Monktoberfest.
The 100 person limit
Size and internal vs. external coordination costs matter a lot. North of 100 people in a company, employees don’t all know each other. Politics become important. Incentives change. Signaling that work is being done may become more important than actually doing work. These costs are almost always underestimated. Yet they are so prevalent that professional investors should and do seriously reconsider before investing in companies that have more than one office.
Upcoming talk on Dell's New Cloud Strategy
I'll have a little cameo on a webinar tomorrow, speaking broadly to Dell's cloud strategy. It'd a good chance to see what we're up to now-a-days and how we think about it. This will be one of the first, public overviews of our cloud approach since we announced we were no longer building and running our own public cloud.
And, it's got a snappy title: Is Cloud Meeting Your Expectations? Today’s Results….