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Follow Your Passion

By David Kelley - Stanford
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Lecture Description

Kelley describes three important steps in starting a company:

1) Follow your passion

2) Hire great people

3) Focus on process. His passion is design, but there must be a balance between passion and business issues. People often worry too much about the financial side of the company and fail on the emotional side of the company, he says.

Course Index

  1. Career Development
  2. Building a Personal Gratification Company
  3. Follow Your Passion
  4. Design is Risk-Taking
  5. Hire Great People
  6. The Process of Design
  7. Product Development Process: Observation
  8. Designing Products vs Designing Experiences
  9. Design as an Iterative Process
  10. Prototyping the Mouse
  11. Career Advice
  12. How do you pick clients?