Lecture Description
Hawkins shares the various reasons why he and his team finally spun off from 3Com to start Handspring. Although they were reluctant to leave and start a company from scratch, they felt that Palm did not belong in 3Com- a networking company. Palm was the only healthy division in 3Com and they could not continue growing and competing with a financial hand tied behind their backs.
Course Index
- What is an Entrepreneur?
- Genesis of Palm Computing
- The Accidental Entrepreneur: Palm History
- Story of Acquisition: Palm, US Robotics, 3Com
- Spinoff: Handspring
- Handspring: Envisioning the Future
- Serial Entrepreneurship: Redwood Neuroscience Institute
- Profiles of Entrepreneurs
- Importance of Experience
- Follow Your Passions
- Individual vs. Company
- Entrepreneurship is a Means to an End
- Work/Life Balance
- Defining Company Culture
- Difficult Negotiations
- Designing Successful Products
- The Role of Market Research
- Work/Life Balance
- Hawkins: What I Wish I'd Learned in College
- Establish Strong Human Resources Early On
- Product Development: Importance of Customers and Testing
- Portable Technologies
Course Description
In this lecture, Jeff Hawkins talks on Entrepreneurship for Stanford University students on October 23, 2002. Hawkins shares his story about how his initial company was continually acquired by larger companies.
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