The Art of The Start - Guy Kawasaki - Speech/Video

Posted on previous blog at 04/14/08

Following the series of videos I’ve been posting here, the one now is a really good one from Guy Kawasaki, regarding entrepreneurship!

In his own words, from his blog:
“An honest speaker will tell you that she has “on” days and “off” days. The result of a truly “on” day is a standing ovation. I had a very “on” day at TiECon on May 13, 2006. This is the annual meeting of The Indus Entrepreneur organization.
I’ve provided postings of audio and video of my speeches that covered the topics of innovation and evangelism, but this is the first one of “The Art of the Start“. It’s the first one, frankly, because I’ve been waiting until I did it very—standing ovation—well.“

To be in context, “The Art of the Start“ is a best-seller book which, again by the author, can be defined as:
“When you get pregnant, you read What to Expect When you’re Expecting. When you get laid off, you read What Color is Your Parachute?. When you get entrepreneurial, you read The Art of the Start.
This book is a weapon of mass construction. My goal was to provide the definitive guide for anyone starting anything. It builds upon my experience as an evangelist, entrepreneur, and most recently, as a venture capitalist who found, fixed, and funded startups.
The book is as relevant for two guys in a garage starting the next Google as social activists trying to save the world. GIST: cuts through the theoretical crap, theories and gets down to the real-world tactics of pitching, positioning, branding, recruiting, bootstrapping, and rainmaking.”

The speech is really really funny and full of smart sights about marketing, entrepreneurship and life!

In some sense, this video changed my life … it brought me new ideas which I’m applying right now!
Hope you enjoy it as I did. :D

PS: If you cannot see the video, on his blog’s link - up on the beginning of the post - you can download the video in .mp4 format.