The Art of the Start: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything | 
 enlarge | Author: Guy Kawasaki
Publisher: Portfolio Hardcover
Category: Book
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Rating:  184 reviews
Sales Rank: 2896
Format: Illustrated
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Pages: 226
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Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 6.3 x 0.7
ISBN: 1591840562
Dewey Decimal Number: 658.11
EAN: 9781591840565
ASIN: 1591840562
Publication Date: September 9, 2004
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Product Description
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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 How Anyone Can Achieve Anything November 23, 2008
Andrew Chang: 7-Hour School Week and Health, Wealth, Truth (Bay Area)
"The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything."
A simple yet profound guide for how anyone can achieve anything. The more we grow, the more we can help people, do what is right, and pay back society.
Everyone in the world should read Guy's strategies and techniques on presentations, pitching, business plans, marketing, and communicating.
I use his 10-20-30 presentation rule and his 10 step business plan guide for all my prototypes in business school and all my current companies.
Visit his blog on How to Change the World, and read the "10 Things to Learn This School Year," "VC Aptitude Test," and "Reality Check Checklist."
It's free on his blog. Buy this book and his new one as well.
Powerful Motivator November 19, 2008
M. Martin (West Bend, WI USA)
The Art of the Start is a great motivator for those who are interested in starting just about anything. Yes, Guy dives into a lot of topics pertaining to venture capitalism, but if you are starting a small business, this book will still give you to motivation to go out and get things done. This book is like a match lit up under your seat. Read it. You'll enjoy it and be driven by it.
A Necessity November 18, 2008
D. Kikuchi (Northeast USA)
From page one through out the entire book, you can't put it down. Almost every page of my book is highlighted and notes taken. Packed FULL of necessary information to start up your own business. Very well written and easy to comprehend. A definate must for anyone considering and planning a healthy start up business.
More than art, it's pure gold in the palm of your hand! October 21, 2008
WvM (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
My first start-up has taken me over a year to get off the ground. It's a huge and ambitious project and has put my entrepreneurial skills to a test. I truly believe in learning from others so I'm a member of virtually every entrepreneurial blog, magazine and forum. I have also purchased about 8 different books on the subject, all varying in context slightly. The problem with this is that the time spent on blogs, magazines, forums and books is time you can very well spend actually building your company.
If the Art of the Start would have been the first book I bought, I would have saved a lot of time. All the answers I had looked for previously were in there, and they were all explained in that typical Kawasaki way; to the point and no B.S.
This book is by far one of the best pieces of literature on the entrepreneurial start-up process I have yet to get my hands on. If you are planning to start a company, NGO or just a project within your already existing organization, I recommend you read this book FIRST. There will surely be other books that will guide you or help you with the specific details of the area you are working on but try to start out by getting the basic "how to..." of a start-up out of this book.
Bravo! October 18, 2008
Sam
The Art of the Start is an excellent book. I work for a start-up and I wish I had this book years ago.
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