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
companies european trying
Companies in Europe should stop trying to do the U.S. version of a European idea.
europe ideas trying
Companies in Europe should stop trying to do the U.S. version of a European idea.
simple trying doe
Here's what you should say [to an investor]: 'this is what my company does' It's that simple. What you're trying to do is get potential investors to fantasize about how your product or service will make a boatload of money. They can't fantasize if they don't know what you do.
media effort trying
You really can't spend money on socail media unless you really try. Socia media is really more about effort than expense.
book people trying
My books are always tactical, bullet lists, this is what you need to do because I'm trying to appeal to people who are trying to change the world and they need checklists.
crossed figuring great ideas idle investor lots trouble trying
You say: "I have lots of great ideas, but I have trouble figuring out which one to try. Let me tell you about a couple." Investor thinks: "I want to know which idea you're going to kill yourself trying to make successful, not which ideas have crossed your idle mind.
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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.
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.