Guy Kawasaki on Founders at Work
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Guy Kawasaki on Founders at Work
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Re: Guy Kawasaki on Founders at Work
#2there's an awesome picture of his book full of stickies
Re: Guy Kawasaki on Founders at Work
#3Seems like a lot of the things he finds funny are because he's a suit, and has always been a suit. He always gets modded up by the former reddit/current YC news community, and I've never figured out why, since normally the same people seem to be anti-suit.
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#4Seems like a lot of the things he finds funny are because he's a suit, and has always been a suit. He always gets modded up by the former reddit/current YC news community, and I've never figured out why, since normally the same people seem to be anti-suit.
I could tell from my coversation with him that he is genuinely a nice person. Guy hasn't always been a "suit" btw. He started out as an Apple evangelist, not a venture capitalist. He has an inspiring video that might change your view of him:
http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2006/06/the_art_of_the_.html
That said, his book "The Art of Start" did not live upto my expectations. I felt that it was too practical; consequently, leaving little room for creativity or sparking new ideas.
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#5Seems like a lot of the things he finds funny are because he's a suit, and has always been a suit. He always gets modded up by the former reddit/current YC news community, and I've never figured out why, since normally the same people seem to be anti-suit.
I could tell from my coversation with him that he is genuinely a nice person. Guy hasn't always been a "suit" btw. He started out as an Apple evangelist, not a venture capitalist. He has an inspiring video that might change your view of him: http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2006/06/the_art_of_the_.html That said, his book "The Art of Start" did not live upto my expectations. I felt that it was too practical; consequently,…
I think he always has been a suit: http://guykawasaki.com/about/index.shtml
He got his MBA, then got into evangelizing about Apple through a friend. I think I would count MBAs who evangelize about Apple as suits.
Edit: By the way, nothing about being a suit means you're not nice, of course. I would assume that most suits are probably nicer than most hackers, because it's the job of a suit to say nice things, while it's the job of a hacker to say true things.
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#6Seems like a lot of the things he finds funny are because he's a suit, and has always been a suit. He always gets modded up by the former reddit/current YC news community, and I've never figured out why, since normally the same people seem to be anti-suit.
He hasn't always been a suit. But python_kiss is right, his advice is very practical. He does understand a lot about tech business, but then again he's no hacker himself.
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#7Also, I've just gotten through reading a couple choice interviews from Founders at Work. These stories are true treasures. Above being insightful and inspiring for entrepreneurs, it's damned entertaining for anyone.
Re: Guy Kawasaki on Founders at Work
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
I could tell from my coversation with him that he is genuinely a nice person. Guy hasn't always been a "suit" btw. He started out as an Apple evangelist, not a venture capitalist. He has an inspiring video that might change your view of him: http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2006/06/the_art_of_the_.html That said, his book "The Art of Start" did not live upto my expectations. I felt that it was too practical; consequently,…
I think he always has been a suit: http://guykawasaki.com/about/index.shtml He got his MBA, then got into evangelizing about Apple through a friend. I think I would count MBAs who evangelize about Apple as suits. Edit: By the way, nothing about being a suit means you're not nice, of course. I would assume that most suits are probably nicer than most hackers, because it's the job of a suit to say nice things, while it…
Well, I guess I meant it more in the sense that he's always been self-deprecating about being an MBA since he likes to promote the entrepreneur over the businessman. For a suit, he understands the culture pretty well.
Re: Guy Kawasaki on Founders at Work
#9Seems like a lot of the things he finds funny are because he's a suit, and has always been a suit. He always gets modded up by the former reddit/current YC news community, and I've never figured out why, since normally the same people seem to be anti-suit.
I thought most of them were funny too. Startups are basically comedies, or at least seem so in retrospect.
One thing I've learned from YC is that practically all startups are broken in some way, no matter what face they show to the world. And novel kinds of breakage are the basis of humor.
Re: Guy Kawasaki on Founders at Work
#10Seems like a lot of the things he finds funny are because he's a suit, and has always been a suit. He always gets modded up by the former reddit/current YC news community, and I've never figured out why, since normally the same people seem to be anti-suit.
I thought most of them were funny too. Startups are basically comedies, or at least seem so in retrospect. One thing I've learned from YC is that practically all startups are broken in some way, no matter what face they show to the world. And novel kinds of breakage are the basis of humor.
I can relate to that. In January, without my knowledge, my newly minted startup hit Digg's frontpage. What followed was an entourage of hungry geeks that basically killed my shared hosting account. It took about 3 days for my site to recover with an upgraded VPS server. But every hour of those 3 days left me hysterical and I couldn't sleep at all :(
But it seems funny now that I look back. Whatever made me think a shared hosting account was the way to go? `:D