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The HP Guys: The Early Years of Technology Giants Hewlett and Packard - Click To Read Article
“Here we were with about $500 in capital trying whatever someone thought we might be able to do,” recalled Bill Hewlett. “So we got into this thing not by design but because it worked out that way.”

Taking the Garage Global: HP Steps it Up
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As soon as Hewlett and Packard began working away in their garage, they decided to create a set of rules to live by. Rule number one was “Believe you can change the world.”

Lesson #1: Practice Management the HP Way
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“It is important to remember that both Dave and I were products of the Great Depression,” said Hewlett. “We had observed its effects on all sides, and it could not help but influence our decisions on how a company should be run.”

Lesson #2: Always Leave the Doors to Innovation Open
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“I think many people assume, wrongly, that a company exists simply to make money,” said Packard during an HP management training session in 1960. “While this is an important result of a company’s existence, we have to go deeper to find our real reason for being…A group of people get together and exist as an institution that we call a company…to do something worthwhile – they make a contribution to society.”

Lesson #3: It Takes Guts to Get to Where You Want to Go
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“We were just opportunistic,” said Hewlett. “We did anything to bring in a nickel. We made a bowling alley foul-line indicator, a clock drive for a telescope, a thing to make a urinal flush automatically, and a shock machine to make people lose weight.”

Lesson #4: Use the Competition to your Advantage
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Two heads are better than one, or so the saying goes. While many CEOs choose to keep all their company secrets closely guarded for fear of losing ground to the competition, Hewlett and Packard were of another opinion. They believed that in some cases, collaboration can actually be better than competition – for everyone involved.

Lesson #5: Pursue a Passion Outside Your Business
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Hewlett and Packard were both diehard electrical engineers and entrepreneurs in one. But, while that combination worked well in helping to grow their startup, it was in fact largely the passions they held outside of their business that kept them going through the tough times and helped them maintain a sense of balance.

Doing it the HP Way: How Hewlett and Packard Rose to Success
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The story of Hewlett and Packard has become legendary throughout Silicon Valley: two guys who started off in a small garage with just a few hundred dollars go on to create the largest IT company in the world. How did they do it? How did these two college buddies work their way out of the garage and into the homes and offices of consumers around the world?

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