Sunday, July 27, 2008

Guy Kawasaki

"Guy Kawasaki", every technology entrepreneur must have heard his name at least once. He is one of the original Apple employees in 1984. He is a venture capitalist now and a great speaker. Click here to know more about him. This is his blog.

I have read a lot about him and wanted to read his famous book, "The Art of the Start".
Today started watching one of his videos, to actually forget one of the most dreadful chores in an office-going guy's life. Yeah, you have guessed it right, its "ironing clothes". (Just waiting for the day when some genius would invent a portable machine to iron my clothes. )



This video of Guy Kawasaki is one of the best videos for a budding entrepreneur.
Its both incisively informative and humorous. He just throws out pearls of wisdom, one by one in the most simple yet humorous way.

.If you are not into entrepreneurship, you should watch this video to analyze how to make your presentations effective and interesting.
Some of his pearls are:

  • His famous 10-20-30 rule for an effective presentation. Your presentation should have less than 10 slides, should be less than 20 minutes and have a font size greater than 30.
  • Always ask a woman about your business model. Don't waste time asking men.
  • Always hire a person who is more intelligent than you. If your employees hire less intelligent people than you and the cycle repeats down the chain, soon you will see dumb people all around you.
I don't want to spill all his pearls. I'll let you watch the video and have some fun.

Remember, the time spent watching this video would be one of the best things you did since the last time you read a good book.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Art of Start is an awesome book, Guy is a great inspiration for Entrepreneurs.

I missed the Tweetup in Mumbai & Guy was a part of it (:

-Himanshu Sheth.