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• Handspring: The Accidental Entrepreneur

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    What is an Entrepreneur?

    Jeff Hawkins 00:00:52
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    Genesis of Palm Computing

    Jeff Hawkins 00:03:43
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    The Accidental Entrepreneur: Palm History

    Jeff Hawkins 00:01:18
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    Story of Acquisition: Palm, US Robotics, 3Com

    Jeff Hawkins 00:02:16
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    Spinoff: Handspring

    Jeff Hawkins 00:01:45
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    Handspring: Envisioning the Future

    Jeff Hawkins 00:01:52
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    Serial Entrepreneurship: Redwood Neuroscience Institute

    Jeff Hawkins 00:01:52
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    Profiles of Entrepreneurs

    Jeff Hawkins 00:00:39
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    Importance of Experience

    Jeff Hawkins 00:02:49
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    Follow Your Passions

    Jeff Hawkins 00:02:56
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    Individual vs. Company

    Jeff Hawkins 00:01:15
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    Work/Life Balance (Part 1)

    Jeff Hawkins 00:02:34
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    Entrepreneurship is a Means to an End

    Jeff Hawkins 00:02:01
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    Defining Company Culture

    Jeff Hawkins 00:02:28
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    Difficult Negotiations

    Jeff Hawkins 00:02:05
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    Designing Successful Products

    Jeff Hawkins 00:02:33
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    Role of Market Research

    Jeff Hawkins 00:03:54
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    Work/Life Balance (Part 1)

    Jeff Hawkins 00:02:34
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    Hawkins: What I Wish I'd Learned in College

    Jeff Hawkins 00:03:34
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    Establish Strong Human Resources Early On

    Jeff Hawkins 00:01:37
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    Product Development: Importance of Customers and Testing

    Jeff Hawkins 00:02:03
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    Portable Technologies

    Jeff Hawkins 00:03:02

• Hewlett Packard and Kleiner Perkins: Career Comparisons

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    Leadership and Change Management

    Debra Dunn 00:04:16
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    Growing with Hewlett Packard

    Debra Dunn 00:04:01
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    Getting into Kleiner Perkins

    Debra Dunn 00:02:37
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    Skills for Social Entrepreneurship

    Debra Dunn 00:02:28
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    Traditional Companies Making Social Differences

    Debra Dunn 00:03:38
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    Creativity Versus Control

    Debra Dunn 00:05:48
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    Career Advice

    Debra Dunn 00:02:56
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    Lack of Business Rigor in the Non-Profit World

    Debra Dunn 00:02:36
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    Success in Venture Capital Firms

    Debra Dunn 00:02:15

• How Do You Find Your Passion and How Do You Pursue It?

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    The Role of a Consultant vs. the Role of a Virtual CEO

    Randy Komisar 00:03:21
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    Should a Start-up Focus on Going Global Right Away?

    Randy Komisar 00:02:37
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    Should a Start-up Focus on Going Global Right Away?

    Randy Komisar 00:03:17
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    The Surge of Social Entrepreneurship

    Randy Komisar 00:03:43

• How to Develop "Breakthrough" Products and Services

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• How to Find the Right Venture Capitalist

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    How to Find the Right Venture Capitalist

    Ray Lane 00:08:58
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    Relationship Between an Entrepreneur and a VC

    Ray Lane 00:05:45
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    Attracting High Quality Business Opportunities

    Ray Lane 00:11:24
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    Influence of Leadership Style on a Company

    Ray Lane 00:04:07
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    How to Choose Good Board Members

    Ray Lane 00:04:19

• HP: Management and Leadership

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    The Importance of Selective Information

    Carly Fiorina 00:02:36
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    The Dynamics of Change and Fear

    Carly Fiorina 00:03:24
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    The Difference Between Management and Leadership

    Carly Fiorina 00:00:46
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    Leadership and Capability

    Carly Fiorina 00:04:26
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    Ethics in a Corporate Life

    Carly Fiorina 00:02:11
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    Gauging Ethics in an Organization

    Carly Fiorina 00:02:52

• Humane Society: Successful Non-profit Leadership

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    The Power of a Mission

    Christine Benninger 00:04:38
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    Finding People with the Right Passion

    Christine Benninger 00:03:34
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    Expanding the Customer Base for the Non-Profit

    Christine Benninger 00:05:03
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    If it Costs More, It's Worth More

    Christine Benninger 00:02:51
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    Fundraising for the Non-Profit

    Christine Benninger 00:02:48

• Hummer Winblad Venture Partners: Trends in Software

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    Introduction to Hummer Winblad and Mobius Venture Capital

    Ann Winblad 00:04:16
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    Drivers for Software Innovation

    Ann Winblad 00:07:34
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    How Consumer Markets and Enterprise Markets Drive the Software Industry

    Ann Winblad 00:03:43
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    2004: Start of an Era of Optimism

    Ann Winblad 00:02:36
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    Trends in Seed and Series A Investing

    Ann Winblad 00:02:21
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    Hummer Winblad's and Softbank's Recent Investments

    Ann Winblad 00:04:03
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    VC Words of Wisdom for Entrepreneurs

    Ann Winblad 00:06:20
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    Keep Testing Your Core Assumptions

    Ann Winblad 00:01:20
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    Outsourcing Software Development to Asia

    Ann Winblad 00:03:16
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    Customers are Key

    Ann Winblad 00:02:55
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    The Economic Context in 2004

    Ann Winblad 00:02:40
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    The Java Standard (and Competing Technology Standards)

    Ann Winblad 00:02:51
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    The Threat of Linux to Microsoft

    Ann Winblad 00:02:07
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    Are Technologies Ahead of Their Time?

    Ann Winblad 00:04:03

• IDEO: Principles of Product Design

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    Career Development

    David Kelley 00:02:27
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    Building a Personal Gratification Company

    David Kelley 00:01:17
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    Follow Your Passion

    David Kelley 00:01:43
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    Design is Risk-Taking

    David Kelley 00:03:55
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    Hire Great People

    David Kelley 00:04:20
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    The Process of Design

    David Kelley 00:01:44
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    Product Development Process: Observation

    David Kelley 00:05:22
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    Designing Products vs Designing Experiences

    David Kelley 00:03:39
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    Design as an Iterative Process

    David Kelley 00:01:34
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    Prototyping the Mouse

    David Kelley 00:03:14
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    Career Advice

    David Kelley 00:00:38
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    How do You Pick Clients?

    David Kelley 00:01:34

• InCube Labs: Problem Analysis at the Cellular Level

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    Problem Analysis at the Cellular Level

    Mir Imran 00:04:15
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    Exit Strategy for the Single Product Company

    Mir Imran 00:01:15
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    Single Product, Single Focus

    Mir Imran 00:01:05
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    Implementing Ideas into Practice

    Mir Imran 00:05:59
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    When to Kill A Business

    Mir Imran 00:04:22
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    The Challenge of Staffing the Team

    Mir Imran 00:03:45
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    Get the Business Basics

    Mir Imran 00:02:52
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    Market Size Determines Company Size

    Mir Imran 00:02:25