Guy Kawasaki

Guy Kawasaki
Guy Kawasakiis an American marketing specialist, author, and Silicon Valley venture capitalist. He was one of the Apple employees originally responsible for marketing their Macintosh computer line in 1984. He popularized the word evangelist in marketing the Macintosh and the concepts of evangelism marketing and technology evangelism...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth30 August 1954
CountryUnited States of America
way enchanted
Let yourself be enchanted in small ways.
getting-started hardest hardest-thing
The hardest thing about getting started, is getting started.
data two clouds
People are free or cheap. Marketing: using Twitter or blogs. Cheap or free. Infrastructure: call up Amazon, call up Rackspace, terabytes of data in the clouds, thousand dollars, two thousand dollars.
writing way enchantment
Writing is one way to achieve enchantment.
inspirational school organization
People who earn the label "creative" are really just people who come up with more combinations of ideas, find interesting ones faster, and are willing to try them out. The problem is that most schools and organizations train us out of those habits.
business ideas easy
Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard.
selling used sells
Create something, sell it, make it better, sell it some more and then create something that obsoletes what you used to make.
okay customers
Just do what's right for the customer, and you'll be okay.
science needs science-religion
Some things need to be believed to be seen.
teacher hero pedestal
If you have to put someone on a pedestal, put teachers. They are society's heroes.
inspirational entrepreneur world
Great companies start because the founders want to change the world... not make a fast buck.
mba careers banking
An MBA is a great degree for career paths like investment banking, finance, consulting, and large companies. An MBA is not necessarily the right path for starting a tech company. You should be building a prototype, not getting an MBA in that case.
player skills people
Good people hire people better than themselves. So A players hire A+ players. But others hire below their skills to make themselves look good. So B players hire C players. C players hire D players, etc.
business mark good-conversation
The mark of a good conversationalist is not that you can talk a lot. The mark is that you can get others to talk a lot. Thus, good schmoozer's are good listeners, not good talkers.