Friday, November 29, 2013

Guy Kawasaki Lessons



1.      Experts are clueless.
Experts are rarely close to customers. Steve Jobs didn’t listen to experts. Experts listen to him.
They will give you advice often from a very arrogant point of view.

As an entrepreneur, you have to figure things out for yourself. Don’t rely on others.

2.      Customers can’t tell you what they need.
Customers can’t help you. You can’t listen to customers.

3.      Biggest challenge begets best work.
You get the best work out of people by providing them magnificent challenges. Present them with big challenges.

4.      Design counts.
In this world of price, design counts.
It’s a lot easier to enchant people with great stuff than crap.

5.      Big graphics. Big font.

6.     Jump curves, not better sameness.
It’s not about being better 10% but 10 times better. The innovation will not happen on the same curve, but jump curves.

7.      “Work” or “doesn’t work” is all that matters.
Don’t follow religions.


8.     Value is different from price.