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I spent the evening listening to Guy Kawasaki at the Houston Technology Center.

He touched on topics from his book The Art of The Start.

Very entertaining. Very informative. And I want to go start my own company soon…like tomorrow.

My key take aways from tonight:

• Startups aren’t just for others. I can do this.
• A business that exists just to make money won’t do well.
• Get going. What am I waiting for?

Here are the rest of my notes:

1) Make Meaning

• Change the World
• Do things 10x better

2) Make a Mantra

• 2 or 3 words that explain why you exist

3) Get Going

• Think different
• Polarize people (Some people should love what you are doing, some people should hate what you are doing.)
• Find a few soul mates

4) Define a business model

• Be specific
• Keep it simple (I like simple)
• Ask women (interesting)

5) Weave a MAT

• Milestones
• Assumptions
• Tasks

6) Niche Thyself

• Only you do it
• And it is very valuable

7) Follow the 10/20/30 rule

• 10 slides
• 20 minutes
• 30 pt font

8) Hire infected people (cool..wordpress turns my #8 into a smiley face)

• Hire people who love what you do
• Ignore the irrelevant
• Hire better than yourself
• Apply the shopping center test ( ?? should have taken better notes on that one)

9) Lower barrier to adoption

• Flatten the learning curve
• Don’t ask people to do something that you yourself would not do
• Embrace your evangelists

10) Seed the Clouds

• “Sales Fixes Everything”
• Let a hundred flowers blossom
• Enable test drives
• Find the influencers

11) Don’t let the bozos grind you down

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