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Michael Dell explains the emphasis of his company for the small business market

Talking at Dell’s SMB Global Media Summit today (follow #DellTYOP on Twitter), Michael Dell touts itself as being the typical example of how technology can help a small business grow and be successful. Below is an edited transcription of his comments.

Michael Dell: The small and medium business space is one that I particularly identify with because we started out as a small company. But actually when you think about it, every company started out as a small company. There are no companies that just all the sudden were large companies.

The other real exciting thing for us is the incredible role that technology plays in enabling new businesses to be created, new businesses to be form. We actually see that all over the world. Which is why we take time to recognize the role that entrepreneurs and “heroes” play in creating these businesses.

It’s an incredible engine of creation. We’re seeing strengthening the economy and it really starts with small and medium businesses. We see that in our business.

When you think what’s going in the world today, we need these new jobs and we need entrepreneurs. And actually the entrepreneurs of this era are able to grow and expand much faster than when I was a young man. If you look at the growth rates in the various lists of the fastest growing new businesses, you actually see growth rates that many many times greater than in the age when Dell was a start-up. And it’s absolutely enabled by technology and cloud and virtualisation, etc..

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