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Casual Articles - The New Art of The Start -- Three Growth Secrets from Guy Kawasaki
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He prefers companies who instead create a mantra
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Guy Kawasaki’s latest business handbook, “The Art of the Start--The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything," will turn many traditional business growth strategies on their heads.
As Managing Director of Garage Technology Ventures, a columnist for Forbes.com, and legendary Apple Computer Fellow, Guy has played the role of salesman, jewelry designer, venture capitalist, and computer evangelist. Few leaders have re-invented themselves as many times as Guy. His insights have helped launch successful startups such as Tripwire, Bitpass, GuruNet, and Santa Cruz Networks.
In a nutshell, Guy offers several strategies: Make meaning first; make money second. Burn the crusty mission statements on the wall. Polarize your market and let a thousand flowers bloom.
What does he really mean?
Leaders who want to re-energize a fledgling corporate division, or want to increase the odds of launching a successful startup cannot afford to ignore this time-tested advice from Guy.
"Got Meaning?"
The first “antique” startup strategy is over-dependence on wordy mission statements. Guy pities (and ridicules) most mission statements that he sees in the business plans that get submitted to Garage Technology Ventures. Says Kawasaki; “Mission statements were originally meant to be short and memorable; but end up looking more like ‘mission impossible.’
He prefers companies who instead create a mantra,
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As Managing Director of Garage Technology Ventures, a columnist for Forbes.com, and legendary Apple Computer Fellow, Guy has played the role of salesman, jewelry designer, venture capitalist, and computer evangelist. Few leaders have re-invented themselves as many times as Guy. His insights have helped launch successful startups such as Tripwire, Bitpass, GuruNet, and Santa Cruz Networks.
In a nutshell, Guy offers several strategies: Make meaning first; make money second. Burn the crusty mission statements on the wall. Polarize your market and let a thousand flowers bloom.
What does he really mean?
Leaders who want to re-energize a fledgling corporate division, or want to increase the odds of launching a successful startup cannot afford to ignore this time-tested advice from Guy.
"Got Meaning?"
The first “antique” startup strategy is over-dependence on wordy mission statements. Guy pities (and ridicules) most mission statements that he sees in the business plans that get submitted to Garage Technology Ventures. Says Kawasaki; “Mission statements were originally meant to be short and memorable; but end up looking more like ‘mission impossible.’
He prefers companies who instead create a mantra
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In a nutshell, Guy offers several strategies: Make meaning first; make money second. Burn the crusty mission statements on the wall. Polarize your market and let a thousand flowers bloom.
What does he really mean?
Leaders who want to re-energize a fledgling corporate division, or want to increase the odds of launching a successful startup cannot afford to ignore this time-tested advice from Guy.
"Got Meaning?"
The first “antique” startup strategy is over-dependence on wordy mission statements. Guy pities (and ridicules) most mission statements that he sees in the business plans that get submitted to Garage Technology Ventures. Says Kawasaki; “Mission statements were originally meant to be short and memorable; but end up looking more like ‘mission impossible.’
He prefers companies who instead create a mantra
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What does he really mean?
Leaders who want to re-energize a fledgling corporate division, or want to increase the odds of launching a successful startup cannot afford to ignore this time-tested advice from Guy.
"Got Meaning?"
The first “antique” startup strategy is over-dependence on wordy mission statements. Guy pities (and ridicules) most mission statements that he sees in the business plans that get submitted to Garage Technology Ventures. Says Kawasaki; “Mission statements were originally meant to be short and memorable; but end up looking more like ‘mission impossible.’
He prefers companies who instead create a mantra
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He prefers companies who instead create a mantra, and use that mantra to drive innovation, hiring, marketing, and sales. Powerful mantras contain no more than 4 words, and can be memorized easily. Wendy’s Restaurant is remembered for “Healthy Fast Food.” Mary Kay is “Enriching Women’s Lives.” Mantras are even beginning to infiltrate the technology industry, which has been historically driven by buzzword-heavy, self-centered mission statements: “Change Powered by Cisco.”
Guy asserts that any good mantra will fulfill one of these criteria: It either increases the quality of people’s lives, stops or minimizes something that is not working in the world, or perpetuates something that is good.
Love Thy Enemies
Guy believes that polarizing the market will naturally happen in companies that love what they offer. Says Kawasaki, “Just accept that certain clients will absolutely agree with you, and that certain clients will absolutely loathe your service no matter how you try to convince them otherwise.” The Toyota Scion is a classic example. Toyota expects very few buyers over 30 years old to buy this vehicle. “You should strive for creating great passion in a very specific market. Polarization is a much better alternative than creating the dangerous position of creating a big market of buyers who are ambivalent, or just don’t care.”
Market polarization is a proven
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