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Ten Questions with Amanda Congdon

Amanda Congdon was one of the first, if not the first, videoblog sensations. As a host of Rocketboom, she had approximately 300,000 viewers in the spring of 2006. She extended her online fame to a television appearance on the CBS television show CSI. (This is the show—which I love—where all the cops are good looking; [...]

By |2016-10-24T14:23:44-07:00November 8th, 2006|Categories: Uncategorized|0 Comments

The Art of Projections in a Dotcom 2.0 World

The world is running amok with entrepreneurs pitching every sort of Web 2.0, social networking, user-generated-content startup. It’s the attack of the bull-shiitake startup projections, so I’m losing my hearing; there’s a ringing in my head, and I get dizzy every once in a while. Before the world implodes (again), here is a top-tenish list [...]

By |2016-10-24T14:23:52-07:00November 2nd, 2006|Categories: Entrepreneurship, Management, Pitching and Presenting, Venture Capital|Tags: |0 Comments

Dear Libby

Guy Kawasaki 3300 Hillview Palo Alto, CA 94304 [email protected] 650-354-1854 August 16, 2006 Dear Libby, I read your interview in Guy Kawasaki’s blog (To show I’m digitially hip enough to have read a recent blog item.), and your responses sparked an interest (A little bit of sucking up to show her that I thought that [...]

Everything You Wanted to Know About Getting a Job in Silicon Valley But Didn’t Know Who to Ask

Many people ask me for advice about getting a job in Silicon Valley, so here’s the inside scoop. Not everyone will agree with this advice, and some will outright deny what I’m saying, but if you use these tips you will stand head and shoulders above most candidates. Love what the company does. Passion for [...]

By |2016-10-24T14:25:08-07:00August 14th, 2006|Categories: Human Capital, Management|Tags: |0 Comments

Ten Questions with “Dr. Evil”

Jim Fowler is the CEO of Jigsaw. This company ignited a controversy because it enables users to exchange information about each other’s contacts. The fear is that a hapless, privacy-seeking middle manager gets inundated with sales pitches for Nigerian banking schemes, organic vegetables, outsourcing services, spam filters, and get-rich-quick seminars because she handed out her [...]

By |2016-10-24T14:25:08-07:00August 9th, 2006|Categories: Venture Capital|Tags: |0 Comments

Ten Questions with Kathleen Gasperini

Kathleen Gasperini is the co-founder and senior vice president of Label Networks. We met in May, 2006 at the Surfing Industry Manufacturers Association conference in Cabo San Lucas. Her company helps leading brands such as Apple Computer, Verizon Wireless, Pepsi, Vans, Levi Straus, and Burton Snowboards understand the global youth culture. She is also the [...]

By |2016-10-24T14:26:22-07:00June 17th, 2006|Categories: Marketing and Sales|Tags: |0 Comments

How We Got DEMOgod by Nathan MacNeill

Nathan MacNeill, the co-founder of a company called Network Streaming (recently renamed Bomgar), documented the lessons that he learned from winning the DEMOgod award at DEMO 2006. I am publishing what he wrote for three reasons: To supplement “How to Be a Demo God.” To help the entrepreneurs preparing for Red Herring Spring 2006 (especially [...]

By |2016-10-24T14:26:52-07:00May 17th, 2006|Categories: Pitching and Presenting|0 Comments

Online Seminar about Networking (as in schmoozing, not Ethernet)

Raindance Communications is putting on another free seminar. This time it's Darcy Rezac, the author of Work the Pond! Use the Power of Positive Networking to Leap Forward in Work and Life. Wednesday, April 12th 12 pm to 1 pm EDT http://roi.raindance.com/rndc/roi/upcomingEvents.jsp?lid=30538#s25 Here's a description: Studies show that a majority of people don't enjoy networking [...]

By |2016-10-24T14:27:54-07:00April 4th, 2006|Categories: Uncategorized|0 Comments

How To Be a Great Moderator

How many times have you watched a panel and thought that it was entertaining and informative? Your answer is probably a small number. Moderating a panel is deceptively hard--harder, in fact, than keynoting because the quality of the panelists is usually beyond your control. Here's how to be a great moderator. Don't over-prepare the panelists. [...]

By |2016-10-24T14:28:15-07:00March 7th, 2006|Categories: Pitching and Presenting|Tags: |40 Comments

The Art of Schmoozing

“It's not what you know or who you know, but who knows you.” Susan RoAne. The Guy Kawasaki Theory of Schmoozing version 1.0 was ad hoc: get to know the people that you need for a specific deal. It was short-term and focused.Version 2.0 is ad infinitum--maybe even ad nauseam. It's taken me twenty years, [...]

By |2016-10-24T14:28:59-07:00February 1st, 2006|Categories: Marketing and Sales|0 Comments

Free Art of the Start Online Seminar

On January 4th at 1:00 pm Eastern, I'm doing a free online seminar based on The Art of the Start for Raindance Communications. In the seminar, I'll cover the 10/20/30 Rule of PowerPoint, missions vs mantras, and other topics pertinent to anyone starting anything. Hope you can join me! http://snipurl.com/artonlineseminar Written at Ilikai Hotel, Honolulu, [...]

By |2015-03-18T07:42:45-07:00January 3rd, 2006|Categories: Books, Entrepreneurship|Tags: |12 Comments

Resolution Assistance

I keep telling myself that I have big bones and lots of muscle mass (I hear that muscle weighs more than fat), but the bottom line is that I weigh 200 pounds. Unfortunately, I’d like to weigh 180 pounds. Coincidentally, I’m drafting my New Year’s resolutions, and one of them is to lose weight. This [...]

By |2016-10-24T14:29:47-07:00December 30th, 2005|Categories: Cool Stuff|15 Comments
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