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A Video on Pen Computing

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Jeff Hawkins Biography
Chairman, Handspring
Jeff Hawkins - Lecture - Entrepreneurship, Palm Computing and Handspring

Being an Entrepreneur is Only One Stage of a Business Career

http://www.prendismo.com/playAll.cfm?id=15&caseId=35

Being an Entrepreneur is Only One Stage of a Business Career

Undergraduate and Early Career Experiences
01:01 Choosing Corporate over Academic and Developing First Product
00:42 Passion for Product Development Which Led to Becoming an Entrepreneur
00:57 Starting a Software Company for Handheld Computers - Palm Computing
00:55 First Product Failure and Following Market Research
00:55 Decision to Move Forward and Start a New Company
01:38 Developing the Palm Pilot and Raising Additional Funds to Get to Market
05:47 A Video on Pen Computing
00:49 Handling Rejections and Finding an Acquiring Company
02:24 Decision to Leave Palm and Start New Company Handspring
01:00 Handspring's Relationship with Palm
00:23 Handspring's New Handheld Product - Visor
00:49 Funding New Company, Handspring
01:01 Taking Handspring Public
02:46 Future of Handheld and Wireless Technology
01:57 Being an Entrepreneur is Only One Stage of a Business Career
05:21 Gold Rush Analogy as it Relates to the Internet Boom
01:17 Importance of Following Your Passion - Which for Him is the Product
01:06 Maintaining a Balance and Finding Happiness
00:55 Connection Between PDA Products and Neurology
01:02 Different Role of Operating Systems in Desktops Versus Handhelds
00:58 Entrepreneurs Who Deserve Admiration
00:49 Competition
00:54 Thoughts on Voice Recognition Technology


So now I'm gonna turn my comments to the present, and give you some suggestions about some advice, perhaps. I have a normal set of top ten lessons from Jeff that I give to people, and I was going to give it here, but I decided not to, I decided to try something different. I met with a number of students yesterday, and I was surprised by the number of times I was asked a particular question, and it seemed to be something that was resonating with a number of them. They were basically asking, "What should I do? Should I finish my degree, or go start a business now?" or "Should I finish my degree, and go work from someplace, and then start a business?" Those were the choices; I'm gonna start a business, so should I do it immediately before I finish school, or should I do it right after I finish school, or do I have to work someplace first? It was a legitimate question, and I didn't think there was an easy answer to it. And, so when somebody asked me that, I said, "You know, I don't think that's an easy question to answer, I don't think there's a yes or no, but I'm gonna try an analogy on you, and work through it with you." And I didn't really have time to rehearse this to myself, forgive me if I get a little off track here, but, first thing to remember is that entrepreneur is not a career. It's not something you do for your life. If you're successful as an entrepreneur, you very quickly become a business person. The people that are usually entrepreneurs for careers are usually the people that aren't successful at it! It's also not a title! Some people say, "I hate those boxes, when you fill in those forms, they say what's your position, what do you do for a living", and you know, you're not an entrepreneur, that's not something you do for a living, that's a kind of embarrassing thing for me to admit. And I don't know what to say, engineer, business person, product person, I don't know. But anyway, you gotta remember that it's a set of business principles, or business tools that can be applied for starting companies and growing companies, and you gotta bear that in mind.

Thoughts on Graduate Education

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We should not stereotype, it's like saying is the BS in a hotel school a dinosaur too or you know... I don't think it's necessarily true. I think that there is a core curriculum that has to be provided; it has to be provided for young people in certain areas of knowledge that they have to have. I think the MBA that turns out somebody that works in the accounting department of Ford and is prevented from even exerting their intelligence other than factual detailed stuff that comes to their desk, you're certainly going to waste an MBA to do that. I don't think... you know, it's fine to have the education but you're not going to use it, but the individual who comes out of any decent MBA program, who has a foundation of knowledge then understands... has also desire and ability to make impact, I don't think the MBA necessarily hurts. I think people who write books about this stuff, ten to one package it in a way that describes anything... but everything is the same. It's really not. What you have in this room is a group of 25 of 30 people, all of whom are very different, all of whom have different personalities and different skill sets. What you're doing is providing them a foundation of education, a way of looking at the world through an education vision. However, they then have to go and look at the world through the eyes they see when they get out and I think it's really up to them and the environments that they're in. Certain MBAs from schools that the peer group is not as exciting or as interesting as some other MBAs will probably have no use for that MBA but the ones that are and want it, I think can get it. So I would take an opposite... I would take an opposite view for that. My own view of education is you get as much as you can when you can because it's going to be a gap period in your life where when you're working, you can't get it and that ... I'm a perfect example of that. I mean I stopped really doing anything outside the hotel business for maybe 30 years because 30 years every minute of my mind was focused on learning my business and learning everything that was in the business. So if somebody says something I knew about it, I could talk about it, I could relate to it. I wanted to know it. It was my... that was my PhD essentially, and then as soon as I sold my business seven years ago, or eight years ago, I started to take courses again and so now I'm learning from a whole different perspective. So I think that that's going to happen to the young people here too. They're going to get blocked in their ability within their organizations. But I think that the education they're getting here or an MBAs later on ... you know they're still going to have the opportunity. So I don't ... it's a good question but I don't really agree with it.