Guy Kawasaki

Guy Kawasaki is one of the most admired, respected, and loved personalities in the blogosphere. Guy is the founding partner at ="http://www.garage.com/">Garage and co-founder of ="http://www.alltop.com/">Alltop as well as an author, speaker, and hockey addict. Guy has written many business and entrepreneurial books, including How to Drive Your Competition Crazy and The Macintosh Way.

Guy first became well-known in the mid 1980s as an evangelist for Apple, evangelizing Macintosh to developers. He left Apple in 1987, but returned as an Apple fellow in 1995.

Kawasaki has started and sold several companies, including Acius and Fog City Software. His current blog is called How To Change The World. He is also very active on Twitter.

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• #followfriday: Guy Kawasaki’s Robots Hit Send Again

  
  PimpYourMarketing — Authority: 123
  Hey look, I like Guy Kawasaki. The guy obviously gets some props for his Apple days (which he continues to relive), and I think his venture Alltop is actually pretty cool. But to be honest? I’ve dropped him from my twitter feed. And it’s not because I don’t like what all his ghostwriters and automated twitter ...
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• New GE Brains Boost Buzz

  
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  Paul Glader’s article last weekend in The Wall Street Journal online about a new twist in the ongoing GE up-from-the ashes saga gave me hope that public relations people will get their day in the sun at this famously left-brained outpost of capitalism. I’m a great fan of GE — even took some Six Sigma green ...
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• The LinkedIn Connection

  
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  I signed up with a few employment agencies and job hunting websites, and even got a few callbacks and interview requests to the hundreds of resumes I sent out. But I must say, the biggest influence on my professional network and what has … See the rest here:  The LinkedIn Connection
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• The LinkedIn Connection

  
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• Before you start an org Twitter account…

  
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  Think about what it means. At AAPA we don’t do .org accounts on Twitter. There is no @AAPA.org or whatever, individual employees have accounts & that is it. Some may think I’m crazy, but take a look at the pictures to the left… Now compare the followers… @GuyKawasaki – 188,517 followers @alltop – ...
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• 8 Reasons You Need to Stop Ignoring Twitter

  
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• Alan Moore on the the toxic tail end of the industrial age

  
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• 3 Reasons why business leaders need to be on Twitter

  
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• Is There a Wrong Way to Use Twitter?

  
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  According to Guy Kawasaki , the Co-founder of Alltop , the best way to use Twitter is for marketing. He is anything but shy when it comes to both his love and usage for the microblogging service. However, not everyone agrees with his stance. He has especially received criticism from the SEO community. One area of ...
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• Hanging with Beth Kanter

  
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• Guy Kawasaki: Venture Capital Insights

  
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  By Alison van Diggelen, host of Fresh DialoguesThis week, we feature an interview with Apple evangelist and venture capitalist, Guy Kawasaki. He shares his candid thoughts on the venture capital industry; the fragile economy and why he sees light at the end of the tunnel.On the stock market and VC investingIf you ...
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• Guy Kawasaki On Entrepreneurship & Twitter Marketing @ Nasscom Product Conclave

  
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  Guy Kawasaki who was part of Apple and later founded Garage Technology Ventures a venture capital firm and is well known as the author of the best seller ‘The Art of the Start’. He currently is the Founder of Alltop a news/content aggregator and spends most of his time tweeting and marketing alltop.com, He was ...
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• The BlogWorld Experience

  
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• From Blogworld: Panels, Keynotes & Expo Booths…Oh My!

  
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  The following is a summary recollection of what happened at BlogWorld 2009 in Las Vegas. In this post, I will look at the activities that took place in the last days of BlogWorld. A lot of activity took place during the first day of BlogWorld , but the next couple of days really picked up as there were several more ...
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• Live Blogging Guy Kawasaki at the NASSCOM PRODUCT CONCLAVE at the Lalit Bangalore

  
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  Live Blogging Guy Kawasaki at the NASSCOM PRODUCT CONCLAVE at Hotel Lalit, Bangalore. I am Glad to be the Official Blogger again for the conference.There surely is nothing better than listening to Guy Kawasaki right in the morning. This surely is one of the best ever presentations I have seen. Guy is absolutely ...
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• History of the Web – WordPress

  
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• Book Review: Art of the Start

  
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  Don’t pitch a VC or angel before readingIf you are an entrepreneur starting up a business or in the market for venture capital (VC) or angel funding, you need to get your hands on “Art of the Start,” by Guy Kawasaki.  From a credentials perspective, he is a UCLA grad, an MBA and worked with [...]
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• ObjectiveMarketer Announces Public Launch of Service to Create, Manage and Measure Social Marketing Campaigns

  
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  REDWOOD CITY, Calif. – ObjectiveMarketer announced public availability of its service to small and large companies who need to create, manage, monitor and measure social-marketing efforts on websites such as Twitter, Facebook and YouTube. The company has been in private beta with invitation-only access for six ...
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• Guy Kawasaki: Nothing more viral than customer service

  
  Barry Moltz — Authority: 465
  Click here to view the embedded video.              When I spoke with Guy at Blogworld , he talked about that customer service is the best defense against competiton even though its not sexy. Since business is all about word of mouth- what do you talk about? You bet, customer service!
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• Rapid 3 – Guy Kawasaki

  
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  The number 3 is great. It’s more than just one, more than a couple, but a lot less than too many (like as in 10). It’s a number that if you limit yourself to, you have to make some trade-offs. Top 3 priorities, 3 dream trips, 3 people you’d most like to meet, etc. You have to focus to get down to 3. I guess what ...
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