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Seth Godin has a post about luck in which he gets away with claiming the LUCK plays a more and more important role in today’s marketing.
Take the case of Levi Strauss & Co. This company was lucky, plain and simple. It makes a garment that was the clothing of choice for a generation of free-spending [...]

I posted Guy Kawasaki’s Art of the Start video yesterday. Today I got the PDF with the slides he was going through.
Download: Guy Kawasaki – Art of the Start
Please note that his eleventh point is different in this presentation. At the TiECon, his eleventh point was about bozosities.

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Guy Kawasaki did a book called Art of the Start. He posts about that in his blog as well.
This time, however, he has a video out. Both instructional and entertaining.

The speach was delivered at TiECon 2006. Another speaker was Arnold Schwarzenegger. Instead of his keynote, I urge you to watch his appearance on CBC [...]

I just caught Tim Burton’s Ed Wood on TV. This took me back to my college days when I first saw it. I remember that my buddies and me would go into spontaneous Bela Lugosi improvisations: “I vill create a race of atomic supermen who vill rule the Vorld!”
Looking at it now, I can’t help [...]

I just read Seth Godin’s manifesto on Bootstrapping. It’s a manifesto because it started life at ChangeThis. Seth likes to call it a Bible. Probably because it requires a leap of faith and a lot of prayer.
Right at the start of it, he suggests you print out the following text and tape it to the [...]

In my experience, most companies come out as very poor shepherds when it comes to communities.
Case in point: I was reviewing Adobe’s live docs for Flash Media Server 2. There wasn’t a SINGLE comment on any of the docs I viewed. I’m not talking about a discussion, I’m talking about someone saying something.
Guy Kawasaki, an [...]