The Art of the Start: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything

The Art of the Start: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything
by Guy Kawasaki

The Art of the Start: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything
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Author: Guy Kawasaki
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2004-09-09
ISBN: 1591840562
Number of pages: 226
Publisher: Portfolio Hardcover

Book Reviews of The Art of the Start: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything

Book Review: Curious at first, then disenchanted
Summary: 2 Stars

Kawasaki does offer a framework for those seeking funding, but other than that, it offers very little for real boot-strapped start-ups seeking to innovate.

As an aside, the reader is left wondering if Kawaski made his fortune from writing books about making money, rather than really having a method. And if he did have a real method, he's not sharing it here because I didn't learn much from reading this book.

Summary of The Art of the Start: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything

What does it take to turn ideas into action? What are the elements of a perfect pitch? How do you win the war for talent? How do you establish a brand without bucks? These are some of the issues everyone faces when starting or revitalizing any undertaking, and Guy Kawasaki, former marketing maven of Apple Computer, provides the answers.

The Art of the Start will give you the essential steps to launch great products, services, and companies-whether you are dreaming of starting the next Microsoft or a not-for-profit that's going to change the world. It also shows managers how to unleash entrepreneurial thinking at established companies, helping them foster the pluck and creativity that their businesses need to stay ahead of the pack. Kawasaki provides readers with GIST-Great Ideas for Starting Things-including his field-tested insider's techniques for bootstrapping, branding, networking, recruiting, pitching, rainmaking, and, most important in this fickle consumer climate, building buzz.

At Apple, Kawasaki helped turn ordinary customers into fanatics. As founder and CEO of Garage Technology Ventures, he has tested his iconoclastic ideas on real- world start- ups. And as an irrepressible columnist for Forbes, he has honed his best thinking about The Art of the Start.

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