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
business clueless numbers
"Patents make our product defensible." The optimal number of times to use the P word in a presentation is one. Just once, say, "We have filed patents for what we are doing." Done. The second time you say it, venture capitalists begin to suspect that you are depending too much on patents for defensibility. The third time you say it, you are holding a sign above your head that says, "I am clueless."
lying clueless ideas
"No one is doing what we're doing." This is a bummer of a lie because there are only two logical conclusions. First, no one else is doing this because there is no market for it. Second, the entrepreneur is so clueless that he can't even use Google to figure out he has competition. Suffice it to say that the lack of a market and cluelessness is not conducive to securing an investment. As a rule of thumb, if you have a good idea, five companies are going the same thing. If you have a great idea, fifteen companies are doing the same thing.
based became believer character graphics mouse moving religious saw scales
When I saw that the mouse was the controlling thing and there was graphics moving all over and it wasn't character based ... it was a religious experience. Definitely, the scales were removed from my eyes. ... I became a believer in 30 seconds.
bad matter time whether
It doesn't matter whether the Dow is 5000 or 50,000. If you're an entrepreneur, there is no bad time to start a company.
maybe means ten
Statistically it's probably one out of a hundred, so that means there's ten out there. Maybe twenty.
change companies resistant
I think a lot of it was because companies were resistant to change vendors.
bring company grows larger types
Yes, but he's back again, ... As a company grows larger and larger it will have to bring in different types of managers.
compensate lack life secret
What I lack in talent, I compensate with my willingness to grind it out. That's the secret of my life.
companies european trying
Companies in Europe should stop trying to do the U.S. version of a European idea.
growth business-growth valuable
It's just as valuable to curate content as it is to create it.
future
I'm a lousy predictor of the future.
money might making-money
If you make money, you might not make meaning.
people agree
Not many people agree with what I do.
media social interaction
Social media allows me to pick my times for social interaction.