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Saturday, December 19, 2009

START A BUSINESS FROM A GARAGE

Tom Peters and Robert Waterman put Hewlett-Packard became the best perurahaan in late 1970. Jerry Pornas and James Collins in his book Built to Last also include Hewlett-Packard to get the award as long-lived companies. The company also entered the same rank in the poll of companies with good management or one of the companies that deserve to be a place to work. Similarly, Fortune included the Hewlett-Packard as one of the most admired companies in the world. Hewlett-Packard has achieved extraordinary things, a decent company admired and successful.

Hewlett-Packard was founded by Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard in a rented garage in Palo Alto with a capital of $ 538 in 1937. Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard was a friend from college at Stanford University. "We think we'll have a job for ourselves. We do not have the slightest thought to be a big company "Packard said. Garage that is the origin of Silicon Valley Stuart Crainer writes in his book The 75 Greatest Management Decision Ever Made.

The first products sold by Hewlett-Packard is the sound wave gauges are sold to Walt Disney. Results from these sales to earn $ 5100 a profit of $ 1300 which is the first success of Hewlett-Packard. The next product is the automated machine and machine grader lettuce shock to help people lose weight. Hewlett-Packard also considers the market for automated equipment thrower urine, bowling floor sensors, and air conditioning. They left the garage in 1940.

Yet Hewlett-Packard has had a crisis at the moment after the war in 1946. But exactly when this crisis emerged that creativity Hewlett-Packard courageous decision to recruit people who are technically capable of abundance, because the post-war life. The result is remarkable, sales reached $ 2.1 million in 1948.

Hewlett-Packard does not rely on long-term debt in developing the business, but the use products that could become the market leader. "Our task is to design, develop, and produce the best for the progress of science and the welfare of mankind. We intend to devote ourselves to the task "Packard said.

In 1976, one of the engineers found that if the metal is heated in a certain way he will jump. The decision to use this technology led to business ink-jet printers and laser-jet finally successful. Yet it all began from a rented garage.

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