What Guy Kawasaki Had Said @ Web Wednesday
In case you have no luck to attend the Web Wednesday we had with Guy Kawasaki, here is a short recap.
1. He found ‘my cat rolls over’ is quite a common tweet, but not that interesting.
2. Only ask for venture capital (VC) when you have too many orders but not enough resources to handle them, but never use that as a lifesaver.
3. Out of 100, VCs would say ‘No’ in 99 cases, and ‘Yes’ for the remaining case, and then they will regret the deal after a month. Because they just found that their money was poured into the hands of jerks.
4. Talk about giving out money, entrepreneurial experience may not be that important. Guy is perfectly comfortable to invest in young men who are 19 with nothing but just good skills to create a product.
5. Entrepreneurs’ mind will go rotten after taking VC. Before that, they will try their best to find interns to work for them without taking a penny. But after that, they will start buying 32 inches LCD monitors for their programmers without thinking whether they need them.
7. While Guy is not a prophet, he said he is not visionary enough to tell us what the next big thing is.
8. Focus on presenting projection figures of your site traffic and revenue to VC is kind of stupid, because you are just going to miss them. Be a sensible man, tell them what you are doing now.
9. Cloning an idea and bring it to China is simply not a smart idea.
10. Taking love matching site as an analogy, those require you to fill in 25 pages of questions may give you a higher probability to find your soul mate, but most VCs usually find company in the traditional ‘HOT or NOT’ way.
11. A guy tells you ‘you’re not hot’ doesn’t mean you’re not hot for another guy.
12. If you found Guy’s tweets keep flooding your twitter, you can either un-follow him or, follow more people so that tweets will not be all from him.
13. Guy’s new book is in pipeline, which is about how to influence people.
14. Alltop.com is for general users, including your mother, but not for geeks.
15. Responding to a question ‘how much you have changed Apple?’, he said on a scale of 100 (assuming Steve Job is 100), he would be 20.
16. On a scale of 10, how successful a venture capitalist he is? His answer is 4 or below.
17. Marriage can keep you happy for a month, which is pretty long, but helping others can keep you happy for your whole life.
