Thomas Mulready of CoolCleveland.com interviews Guy Kawasaki via podcast as Guy will be visiting Cleveland on September 6th for a speech.
Thomas talks to Guy about “Art of the Start”:
– evangelist – used more than ever in job sites
– Xerox Parc and mouse and graphical user interface
– the mass of inertia that is against you when you starting a company
– talk about being pissed offness
– if a product or service isn’t good enough that is a good reason to start a company
– just starting a company because you hate them is not good
– what do you look for as a venture capitalist?
– young people who are not proven and a business model that is not proven
– the “Market doesn’t need it” argument is stupid
– dislike of mission statements, prefers a mantra 3 to 4 words long
– to avoid failure you’d have to try nothing – there are many cases of people
who have failed and have come back to win. I burned through $50 million!
– it starts with the universities, the engineering – if I had a choice between $100 million
in venture capital or a great university engaged with what is around it I’ll take the later
– Guy says his speech will be more about what not to do than what to do (this is great!)
– current state of Apple Computer is also discussed
Interesting to hear Guy interviewed outside the valley the vibe and questions are different. Enjoy!