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revorad on Aug 16, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: A vote for me is a vote for dipshit businesses eve...

"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

ido on Aug 16, 2010 [–]

Wasn'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 on Aug 16, 2010 | [–]

$629,483

http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl

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