Jeff Hawkins

Jeff Hawkins, Numenta

Inside the Mind of a Reluctant Entrepreneur

Numenta's Jeff Hawkins, a frequent company founder, inventor, and product designer for Palm and Handspring, highlights lessons learned during his tenure in technology. He also ...

Podcast 58 minutes

Jeff Hawkins, Numenta

Palm’s Approach to Elegant Design

Despite Microsoft's desire to crush the fledgeling Palm Pilot in the 1990's, Jeff Hawkins, Palm's former Co-founder and now the Founder of Numenta, decided to ...

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Jeff Hawkins, Numenta

Case Studies of Failure

After designing about a dozen computer products, Numenta's Jeff Hawkins recalls that two - among them the Palm Pilot - were very successful, half were ...

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Jeff Hawkins, Numenta

Forgo the NDA: Find Support Where You Can

Jeff Hawkins, Founder of Numenta, encourages entrepreneurs to involve people in their problems and to solicit as many qualified opinions as they can. Don't get ...

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Jeff Hawkins, Numenta

Effective Choices, Not Longer Days

Throughout his thirty-year career launching four start-up organizations (including founding Numenta), Jeff Hawkins has always sworn that the would be home for breakfast and dinner with his family every day. ...

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Jeff Hawkins, Numenta

An Entrepreneur’s Take on the Non-Profit

Launching a non-profit organization is just as much work as starting a for-profit business, says Numenta Founder Jeff Hawkins. Many of the issues and struggles ...

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Jeff Hawkins, Numenta

The History of Palm and the Part-time Entrepreneur

Jeff Hawkins, Founder of Numenta, was an early observer of the idea that people wanted their primary personal computer to be in their pocket, thus ...

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Jeff Hawkins, Numenta

The Twenty-Year Plan

After becoming a PhD student in biophysics and facing numerous institutional hurdles barring his desire to study the neural cortex, Jeff Hawkins, Founder of Numenta, ...

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Jeff Hawkins, Numenta

Entrepreneurship Viewed as a Tool and When to Use it in Industry & Science

Jeff Hawkins, founder of Palm Computing and director of the Redwood Neuroscience Institute, speaks at Stanford University's Entrepreneurial Thought Leader lecture series.

Podcast 57 minutes

Jeff Hawkins, Numenta

What is Entrepreneurship?

Jeff Hawkins, co-founder of Palm Computing, talks about what entrepreneurship is and isn't. Hawkins views entrepreneurship as a tool that is to be used sparingly ...

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Jeff Hawkins, Numenta

Following Your Goal

Hawkins advises everyone to find their passion and to use the fastest and surest ways to pursue that passion. He also believes it is very ...

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Jeff Hawkins, Numenta

Outsourcing

Hawkins shares his views on outsourcing and discusses how his company decides when and how to outsource. He believes that since the world is becoming ...

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Jeff Hawkins, Numenta

Hiring Plan

Hawkins discusses the importance of having a planned hiring process while starting any new business. He goes on to say that the people who have ...

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Jeff Hawkins, Numenta

Importance of Going Slow

Hawkins believes that most companies go out of business because they grow rapidly rather than pacing themselves while growing.

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Jeff Hawkins, Numenta

What is an Entrepreneur?

Jeff Hawkins, co-founder of Handspring, has never thought of himself as an entrepreneur.Being an entrepreneur is not a career choice, he says, but is ...

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Jeff Hawkins, Numenta

Genesis of Palm Computing

Hawkins talks about his life, his education and work experience. He started his career at Intel for 3 years and then moved to a start-up that ...

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Jeff Hawkins, Numenta

The Accidental Entrepreneur: Palm History

Hawkins never really wanted to start a company, he admits. He considers himself an accidental entrepreneur who was approached by two venture capitalists while planning ...

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Jeff Hawkins, Numenta

Story of Acquisition: Palm, US Robotics, 3Com

Hawkins shares his story about how his initial company was continually acquired by larger companies.

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Jeff Hawkins, Numenta

Work/Life Balance

Hawkins discusses the balance between work and personal life. He mentions how different people will have differing balance cycles throughout various stages of their life. ...

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Jeff Hawkins, Numenta

Spinoff: Handspring

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 ...

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Jeff Hawkins, Numenta

Handspring: Envisioning the Future

Hawkins discusses how the cell phone took over mobile devices in the realm of personal computing. He projects where Handspring will go in the future with this transition.

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Jeff Hawkins, Numenta

Serial Entrepreneurship: Redwood Neuroscience Institute

Hawkins is working on his third start-up. Besides starting Palm and Handspring, Hawkins also followed his passion for theoretical neuroscience, the study of how certain ...

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Jeff Hawkins, Numenta

Profiles of Entrepreneurs

Hawkins does not believe there is a single model for an entrepreneur. Each entrepreneur is unique in their own way, he says.

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Jeff Hawkins, Numenta

Importance of Experience

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 ...

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