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
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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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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.
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This makes them much easier to compare. We use the computer to process the plans, but each one gets seen by human eyes.
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You say: "The last time I contacted you, I..." Investor thinks: "I'm going to fire my secretary for putting this clown on my calendar again.
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Facebook is for people, Twitter is for perspective, Google+ is for passion, LinkedIn is for pimping
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You need to save some mental, physical, and emotional resources for enhancing your product after you ship. A revolution is a triathlon, not a hundred-yard dash-it requires long distance stamina and multiple skills such as creating, churning, and evangelizing.
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Better to fail at doing the right thing than to succeed at doing the wrong thing.
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Entrepreneur is not a job title. It is a state of mind of people who want to alter the future.
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Just be nice, take genuine interest in the people you meet, and keep in touch with people you like. This will create a group of people who are invested in helping you because they know you and appreciate you.
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When you enchant people, your goal is not to make money from them or to get them to do what you want, but to fill them with great delight.
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I would consider...Google Plus a push technology. It's closer to Twitter than to Facebook.
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Don't worry, be crappy. Revolutionary means you ship and then test... Lots of things made the first Mac in 1984 a piece of crap - but it was a revolutionary piece of crap.
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It's easy to say that entrepreneurs will create jobs and big companies will create unemployment, but this is simplistic. The real question is who will innovate.
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If you just enchanted one person per day, you would make a big dent in the universe.