| Importance of Experience | October 23, 2002 |
Jeff Hawkins
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Entrepreneurial Thought Leader Lectures |
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| Video 9 of 22 from this talk |
- 00:49What is an Entrepreneur?
- 03:40Genesis of Palm Computing
- 01:16The Accidental Entrepreneur: Palm History
- 02:19Story of Acquisition: Palm, US Robotics, 3Com
- 01:41Spinoff: Handspring
- 01:49Handspring: Envisioning the Future
- 01:47Serial Entrepreneurship: Redwood Neuroscience Institute
- 00:36Profiles of Entrepreneurs
- 02:47Importance of Experience
- 02:54Follow Your Passions
- 01:12Individual vs. Company
- 01:54Entrepreneurship is a Means to an End
- 01:33You Can Live a Normal Life
- 02:26Defining Company Culture
- 02:03Difficult Negotiations
- 02:30Designing Successful Products
- 03:49The Role of Market Research
- 02:32Work/Life Balance
- 03:32Hawkins: What I Wish I'd Learned in College
- 01:34Establish Strong Human Resources Early On
- 02:06Product Development: Importance of Customers and Testing
- 02:59Portable Technologies
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It helps to have experience under your belt before you start your own business, says Hawkins. You ought to have experience working for a good management team and give yourself time to have great mentors. You also have to learn to manage growth and success and how to deal with and anticipate bad times. In Hawkin's experience, the vast majority of people that start companies and do so successfully have had past experiences that helped them.
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