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    Dell Ventures; A Case Study

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    This 15 page paper examines the company Dell Ventures, the venture capital company of Dell, and examines the strategy, marketing, operations, HRM and finance all based on the Harvard Business School case study on Dell ventures.

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    the company has inherited and works with the foundations of the company and the way that this fits in with the parent company as part of a larger strategy. The  current poison is one where over 90 investment have been made worth more than $700 million all adding value to the development added value with Dell.  Dell is primarily a computer company that had been formed in 1984 by 19 year old Michael Dell. The strategy of direct distribution gave the company  a competitive advantage and led to the company becoming the largest direct computer seller. This string poison lead to the company also being the fastest growing computer company on the  stock market with three quarters of the 36,000 staff joining after 1997. By 1999 the revenues were $75 billion and earning were $19 billion, placing it at 78th on  the fortune 500. Dell deals with demand using its own business model, this is a very important micro economic factor. The business  model used by company is one of direct marketing and direct contact with the customers. This policy has allowed the company to develop and respond in a more effective manner  to the changing needs of the consumers. This enables Dell to control the entire value chain. The products sold included desktops and laptops as well as more than 3,000 lines  of software and peripheries. A strategies of related diversification appear to have begun from this basis, with other services such as DellEWorks.com  a service that offers many website and interne t services and the use of feedback though projects such as Dell Talk where there is a discussion forum between Dell and 

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