Thank You Guy Kawasaki for Sending Me A Copy Of Reality Check
First of all I would like to publicly thank Mr. Guy Kawasaki for sending me a free copy of his newest publication, “Reality Check”. I met ‘da man’ back in the late 90′s early 2000′s when I was living in the Bay Area. He was very much involved in the dot com ‘era’ (i use that term very lightly).
Guy Kawasaki is a long-time popular and respected author, blogger, entrepreneur and venture capitalist.
I even remembered when he started his early stage venture capital entity, Garage.com. I am currently plugging alltop.com for him because I believe it has tremendous value. Everything flashy doesn’t guarantee success and all that is with out the bells and whistles more times than not are where the gems of data as well as information are found.
Now, I do not agree with all of Guy’s tenets in terms of entrepreneurialship, Venture Capital funding approaches, business plan development, etc. But so what? I do agree with him on quite a bit and to top it off he has a great sense of humor.
With that said, find me an individual who believes 100% of what another believes in and I’ll show you an unthinking clone without a spine.
Check out Guy’s video below. Guy, my man … down with ‘schwag’! I am having flashbacks. Actually I wish I had kept all of my schwag. Schwag = branding and of course that is critical and effective. So oooook, schwag is da bomb!
I have yet to read the book as I am still taking my time reading and laughing through Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s “Fooled By Randomness – The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets”. Many find the book rather dry and scientifically intellectual. I love it! It keeps me laughing and also causes me to critically think about my own approaches and philosophy in life and in business. I studied multivariate analysis, randomness, and probability and received my B.S. in the same, but it was never as entertaining as this book.
Oh, did I digress? I had a few random thoughts emanating from my gray matter. Sorry about that. Here is the video.
Call me brilliant as I don’t believe in working hard. But if you want to reward me for hard work for my brilliant ideas, and off the chart deliverables, then come on with it, she says! And yes, Guy, I am an unpaid evangelist! You got me there.
God Bless
Faith