35 Posts found for Author: Guy Kawasaki

Don’t fall in love with ideas. By ideas I mean: systems, marketing approaches, technologies, partnerships, whatever. Because as soon as you as you fall in love with one approach, you lose sight of other possibilities. …Every right idea eventually becomes the wrong idea.

Content: Quotation | Authors: Guy Kawasaki, Roger Von Oech | Source: Sun Microsystems | Subjects: Creativity, Innovation, Thought

After posting “Financial Models for Underachievers: Two Years of the Real Numbers of a Startup” about the two years of actual costs of Redfin, many people asked for a generic version of the financial model that Redfin used to project costs. Here it is.

Content: Online Resource | Author: Guy Kawasaki | Source: How to Change the World | Subjects: Finance, Free Stuff / Tools

Fred Greguras is a partner at the Silicon Valley law firm of Fenwick and West. In this interview, Guy Kawasaki asks him to answer the most common questions of newbie entrepreneurs.

Content: Article | Author: Guy Kawasaki | Source: How to Change the World | Subjects: Entrepreneurship, Legal

Guy Kawasaki interviews Tim Berry, president of Palo Alto Software, the principal creator of Business Plan Pro, about business plans and business planning.

Content: Article | Author: Guy Kawasaki | Source: How to Change the World | Subject: Entrepreneurship

Guy Kawasaki interviews Penelope Trunk, author of Brazen Careerist: The New Rules for Success.

Content: Article | Authors: Guy Kawasaki, Penelope Trunk | Source: How to Change the World | Subject: Career

Guy Kawasaki provides a list of tips to get the attention of a venture capitalist.

Content: Article | Author: Guy Kawasaki | Source: How to Change the World | Subjects: Entrepreneurship, Venture Capital

Start-ups tend to be enormously resource constrained. Typically they are not able to devote money and time to the problems of strategic uncertainty. As a result, start-ups tend to be “bet the farm” propositions: high risk, with the potential of high reward. Such firms don’t manage strategic risk, they accept it.

The degree to which you manage risk will be a function of your ability … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Guy Kawasaki | Source: How to Change the World | Subjects: Entrepreneurship, Risk Management

To foster greater understanding among the entrepreneurs and VCs, Guy Kawasaki presents an exposé of the top ten lies of venture capitalists.

Editor’s Note: I love the definition of a blogger on his site: “someone with nothing to say writing for someone with nothing to do.”

Content: Article | Author: Guy Kawasaki | Subjects: Entrepreneurship, Venture Capital

Author and Apple alumn Guy Kawasaki shares some lessons learned from wounds suffered during his long tour of duty in the technology trenches.

Content: Article | Author: Guy Kawasaki | Source: AlwaysOn | Subjects: Entrepreneurship, People

What does it take to turn ideas into action? What are the elements of a perfect pitch? How do you win the war for talent? How do you establish a brand without bucks? These are some of the issues everyone faces when starting or revitalizing any undertaking, and Guy Kawasaki, former marketing maven of Apple Computer, provides the answers.

The Art of the Start will give … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: Guy Kawasaki | Subject: Entrepreneurship

Former Apple marketing maven Guy Kawasaki has established quite a second career as start-up counselor and funder via his Garage Technology Ventures VC firm. We are big fans of his Forbes column, which offers straight-shooting advice from someone who has been there. His topics are as broad as the importance of taking chances to the right time to name a company, from the worth of … [ Read more ]

Content: Online Resource | Author: Guy Kawasaki | Source: Forbes | Subjects: Entrepreneurship, Venture Capital

Content: Book | Authors: Guy Kawasaki, Raymond W. Smilor | Subjects: Entrepreneurship, Management

Content: Book | Author: Guy Kawasaki | Subjects: Management, Strategy

Guy Kawasaki (head of Garage.com) gives 10 tips on how to seek money (e.g. look for value, not valuation).

Content: Article | Author: Guy Kawasaki | Source: Forbes | Subject: Entrepreneurship

Why too much capital can kill you.

Editor’s Note: a bit topical (written in mid 1999) and mostly common sense, but interesting just the same…

Content: Article | Author: Guy Kawasaki | Source: Business 2.0 | Subject: Entrepreneurship