Stanford / Entrepreneurship

Product Development: Importance of Customers and Testing

By Jeff Hawkins | Handspring: The Accidental Entrepreneur Lecture 21 of 22

GRADED BY 0 USERS grade it
get flash player

Lecture Description

I never had a technology company, says Hawkins. He believes that products come out of product marketing people who really love and understand products. He asks his employees to use competitor products to learn something from them. The focus should be on what people want and what they need, rather than only on technology.To build a successful product one has to innovate continuously, focusing on what people do and not what they say. And if you build a product, use the thing yourself.

Course Index

  1. What is an Entrepreneur?
  2. Genesis of Palm Computing
  3. The Accidental Entrepreneur: Palm History
  4. Story of Acquisition: Palm, US Robotics, 3Com
  5. Spinoff: Handspring
  6. Handspring: Envisioning the Future
  7. Serial Entrepreneurship: Redwood Neuroscience Institute
  8. Profiles of Entrepreneurs
  9. Importance of Experience
  10. Follow Your Passions
  11. Individual vs. Company
  12. Entrepreneurship is a Means to an End
  13. Work/Life Balance
  14. Defining Company Culture
  15. Difficult Negotiations
  16. Designing Successful Products
  17. Role of Market Research
  18. Work/Life Balance
  19. Hawkins: What I Wish I'd Learned in College
  20. Establish Strong Human Resources Early On
  21. Product Development: Importance of Customers and Testing
  22. Portable Technologies
Leave Feedback