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
successful servant-leadership making-money
The companies that are successful, they start out to make meaning, not to make money.
team eye goal
Great leaders are paradoxical. They catalyze, rather control, the work of their teams. They have an overarching vision for the team but are not autocratic in the realization of this vision. Their eyes are open to whatever results occur-not just planned goals, because serendipity is a great innovator.
entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship is not for everyone.
google marketing blogging
Twitter, Facebook, Google + are the trifecta of marketing for authors (and bloggers).
numbers links looks
If you look at my Twitter feed it is 99% links, but 1% is me responding and 1% of a big number is a big number.
confusion people adoption
Instant success are seldom instant and if you talk to the people behind these successes, you'll find out that they came after months of fear, uncertainty and confusion along with a flagrant lack of adoption.
successful organization good-business
Organizations are successful because of good implementation,not good business plans.
two guy shorts
Leverage your brand. You shouldn't let two guys in a garage eat your shorts.
successful self entrepreneur
A successful self-publisher must fill three roles: Author, Publisher, and Entrepreneur—or APE.
country europe law
Coming from the U.S., you tend to look at one homogeneous market with 350 million people. But in Europe, every country has its own customs and laws.
entrepreneur venture-capitalists plans
Most venture capitalists won't read a business plan unless the entrepreneur is introduced to them by a contact.
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You know, if you're Guy Kawasaki and you create a car that gets 500 miles a gallon with zero emissions, people on the Internet would say: 'I could have done that in half an hour, and it's been done before. What's the big deal? I expected something more from him.' Meanwhile, they didn't do it, right? They're still living at home with their mothers.
enchantment complaining horns
If you don't toot your own horn, don't complain that there's no music.
business keys impossible
The key to evangelism is a great product. It is easy, almost unavoidable, to catalyze evangelism for a great product. It is hard, almost impossible, to catalyze evangelism for crap.