The Art of the Start Video

An honest speaker will tell you that she has “on” days and “off” days. The result of a truly “on” day is a standing ovation. I had a very “on” day at TiECon on May 13, 2006. This is the annual meeting of The Indus Entrepreneur organization.

I’ve provided postings of audio and video of my speeches that covered the topics of innovation and evangelism, but this is the first one of “The Art of the Start.” It’s the first one, frankly, because I’ve been waiting until I did it very—standing ovation—well.

Here are the PowerPoint slides that I was using that day. By the way, I am wearing an Anne Namba vest in this video. This is the company that makes the world’s most expensive aloha shirts.

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Here is the video in MP4 format in case you can’t use Google Video.

Download GuyKawasakiTheArtoft.mp4 (178510.9K)

Comments

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Amazing stuff Guy.

[Choi, Jeong-Suh]

Guy, you just made my day!
I came home late worn out from a long typical day, watched your sppech, giggled, and finally stood up clapping loud with full of admire. Yes, in my home in front the computer. ;D Your speech was just great enough to wake my wife and daughter up in the middle of night even at the other side of the earth(Korea)! ;D Even though I could understand your speech around 95% only as a foreigner and so would my employees, I would definitely play this again for my co-workers. ^^ Thank you!!!

[mevis]

Hi,Ladys and Gentlemen! Here i want to say thank you for www.cycbiz.com.On the help of this website i received many orders from USA.Thanks again.

[The Reverend Everett L. Kilgo]

Guy,
I was googling "video presentations" in hopes of finding some information that would help me to freshen my presentations in worship. The search engine gave me your blog and suddenly a light came on. A few months back while reading Entrepreneur magazine, there was a section featuring YOU talking about start-ups and related venture capital issues. You were brutal, blunt and I now think: dead on point. That article stayed with me. It may seem strange that a churchmen would be interested in entrepreneurial subject matter, but I have an entrepreneurial and evangelical soul (and by the latter I don't mean the denomination! lol). My church is a start-up to which I am attempting to apply solid yet "fluid" business practices and principles; especially as it regards reaching the current generation and young people. Some "experts" are saying that powerpoint presentations are dying a slow death in terms of general business, and in this case,the church's use of the same with the younger generation. Even the older folk are supposedly less attuned to powerpoint (if they ever were!). I'm wondering how the principles you espouse can freshen/empower my presentations through the use of technology, 2. how can i identify the type of and best equipment suited for presentation, 3. how can I make my "product", which is the bible and other Christian related principles more "attractive" across the generational sphere thereby activating and maintaining growth in the ministry over the long term? Tall order, I know. Indeed, this may be out of your domain, but I can clearly see the value of and the ability to apply your "methods of evangelism" to new church start-ups because, like it or not, they are indeed businesses. Finally, I'm a WINDOWS guy greatly interesed in the Apple/MacIntosh platform. Perhaps, you or someone reading this blog can tell me how I can be "SAVED", (lol). All I can say re: ART OF THE START video is: WOW! and thanks

[adam]

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[mitesh]

definately a Great presentation

very well done - both in content and style..

Keep it up

Mitesh
http://mitesh.webng.com

[Mitesh Rami]

hey man you speak so well.. Hats off to you.

Its just the best speech on entrepreneurship i have ever heard.

[Eugen Viagra]

Very intresting book. Thank you for you book. Good luck.

[Paul anderson]

I found the philosophy of success he suggests to resonate with how things really should be done.

[Terri in Tokyo]

thanks so much. this speech is exactly what I needed to see, at just the right moment.

[Hannes]

great speech!!!

[minikperi]

Thanks! Just fixed the link.

[Rhon Daguro]

Fabulous. Were you even conscious or were you having that Matrix moment? Great Job.

[Alex G]

Guy

Thank you. Just what I needed to hear. I'll test your points and let you know how it goes.

Great presentation, they should have given you an hour!

Alex

[helen pacheco vilcapuma]

well i think it's important movie and explanations for doing an interesting and exciting movie.

congratulations!

helen
(a reporter)

[mahesh]

Hey Guy

re: your video: art of the start..

a quick note to say how much i benefited by watching this video..its worth watching a couple of hundred times..and i intend to do so..only prob i am unable to download the video...

possible to send it by email??

cheers mahesh

[Sudeep Khanal]

hey guy,you r a great speaker and inspirer.You have great contribution in changing someone life who hears you ,so i solute u.

[Alexander Alvarez]

Guy, I've got it. The next worlds leading company. Thanks for some inspiration. Im going to change the world!

[Eric Shannon]

Guy, this is my 10th year running my internet startup and i still find your 10 points relevant, insightful and motivational. I'm working on brand identity, brand promise etc and launching a new business - this is great stuff. Just what the doctor ordered. Thanks!!

[Hdr]

You're a great speaker.

[Greg]

Guy (standing ovation) can I say more?

Ahhhh "Providing Flood Protection"

Great montra huh

From a fellow ice hocky nut from the sacramento area Redwood City Rink was a great place to play when I was a kid to bad you guys always beat us.

Greg P.

[Cliff Lui]

This is now mandatory viewing for my executive team. Damm that was good.

[Krassimir Gadjokov]

Guy,

I just found one more very good addition to your "Art of the Start" "bozacity" list :-)

"Everything that can be invented has been invented"
Charles H. Duell, U.S. Commissioner of Patents, said in 1899

Cna you be more "bozo" than this guy?

[Manav]

Guy

One thing which was stand out in your presentation. U walk across the bridge and be on the same side in first 60 sec. That is great. Very practical and thought provoking. Disruptive at times. But the message is clear.

Good stuff.
Manav

[Jon]

I bought the book on Amazon and I loved it. The video is great, too.

[Pablo DiCiacco]

How did you manage to have your blog attach itself as a popup in firefox to the megaupload site?

[HIMANSHU]

Truly a very good speech.This shows that experience is more important than just bookish knowledge.

Also,this could be adopted by some of the MBA's or consultants :-)

[Daniel]

Wow, awesome speech. I really needed to see that!

[Timothy Chan]

Great presentation... very practical, yeah, like your motto. The fact that, Guy, you are very candid and honest about what you said is certainly worth anyone's time to watch this video. Well, Guy, like you , I wish that someday, sometime, our hindsights (our mistakes, and lessons from such mistakes) could be someone's foresights, so that in some way it could make a differences in what they do.

[Warren Stevens]

Absolutely Brilliant !!! Arguably the best speech on entrepreneurship ever.

[YingSean]

Guy,
This is a great speech. After hearing this speech, it urge me to buy your book and find out more about The art of the start..
Now i am reading your book..

Thanks for the inspiration.

[Lily]

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[Teddy Hwang]

Wow!

I gotta be honest. I didn't know what was the big deal with you till I watched that video. That was an awesome speech and you have a great sense of wit and humor. Great job!

[Ramon Thomas]

An excellent video and thanks for making the presentation available for download. Right now in entrepreneurial life I was feeling helpless and uncertain about where to go from here. You've given me the inspiration to continue, to slog it out, to fight the good fight, to change the South Africa, the way I've always dreamed about.

[Andrew Newman]

Wow, what an influential performance. The speech was very well organized and I would just like to add that it gave me great motivation to perform my speech in business class. (marketing)

[Schnelles Lesen]

Guy,
I study in Germany commercial law, and can tell you, that I've learned more from your video and book, than from my professors and their books.
Thanx a lot. Sometimes I ask my self why I have to study those boring theoretical books that do not have any relations with the real world.

Schnelles Lesen.

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Why thinks! Go on the Autobahn and take a car to 280 kph for me.

Guy

[Francisco Balart]

Guy, I have 1000 things to do, but I could not resist watching your video. CONGRATULATIONS! I'm writing an immediate email to all my team.
F Balart
CHILE

[André Hedetoft]

Guy. I love you enthusiasm!
I love the way you manage to inspire people. Keep the good work up!

André Hedetoft
Movie-geek
Just created a game where you get to play with my real life over at http://www.andrehedetoft.com

[David]

Great Speech. A lot of good info.

[Vinu Shankar G]

Guy,

Your 'art of the start' presentation is one of the best speeches I have ever seen.

Really inspiring!

[Bob]

Guy,
Your speech has great value and few people can do it. Thank you for the contribution, I am sure you will change lots of people's life path, including me. Thank you!

[Cbk Menon]

Very candid and impressive video.
It is really nice of you to post such videos, which, i am sure, is helping lot of people.
Keep on posting more such stuffs.

[Jean-Pierre]

Hello Guy
I am a french entrepreneur. I have been very impressed by the effectiveness of your speech.
Only what is absolutely necessary to start and be sucessful. I have just started to read your book and I can't leave it even to eat ! I think your book would have to be translated in french. Thank you.

[Aadil Bandukwala]

Dear Guy,

Ammazing! I was blown away by your presentation - The Art of the Start. Im a first generation entrepreneur and your presentation has totally changed my perspective towards running a start up company. Cheers to the good times ahead!

Entrepreneurially yours,

Aadil Bandukwala.

[charvi]

Today, I first come here,Kavasaki.I think i can not make you nervous.

Hope we make friends!

[Anne]

Being probably amongst the youngest of your audience I was truely inspired. I always had the vague feeling that things should be done in a much simpler way and you just confirmed it in those fascinating 40 minutes. I learned a lot! Thanks!

[Nicolas]

Your presentation is great. I think I've listen to it about 3 times because there's so much in it.

I've been looking for your book in Thailand but I guess it's not arrived yet.

A good example of polarizing product is marmite.

So polarizing that their mantra is:

love it or hate it.

Here is the website: http://www.marmite.com

[prlinkbiz]

Love this video- great abbreviated version of the book- while making all the important points- and fun to watch as well! Posting a link today, as part of my "How I should have read Art of the Start first"- (aka: my bass ackawards business start up)!

[James Schramko]

Excellent speech. Thank you for saving me the air fare. You have added great value by making this public. Well done.

James

[Laurie Clemans]

Guy,

Wise content. We were knee-deep marketing for frenzied tech start-ups back in the day and one by one–watched 'em tank. Seeing confusion and a déjà Vu greed-glow coming off the latest crop. I hope you won't mind if I quote you. Maybe some can be pulled back from the abyss! To make meaning is the key.

Laurie

[M. Barlow]

Great presentation! Was a little intimidated by the size of the file, but watched the whole thing and enjoyed every minute.

[Dave Dugdale]

I can't wait to see you speak at PubCon 2006!

Great video. My wife liked it too.

[Denis M.]

Wow, cool!

[Thomas Schimana]

Thanks Guy!

Awesome speech. A perfect presentation with fun, love and passion!

Tom

[Ravi Jayagopal]

Guy,

I am a huge fan of yours, and I was simply blown away by your video, and posted it on my blog, and I have gotten more responses to your video than I've gotten for my own content :-)

However, I did want to share with you one very surprising (but funny) opinion of a user, who obviously knows frighteningly little English, but still very unapologetically slams you for a lot of things, including your choice of words ("adigitives", the person writes).

Here's a snippet: The person writes:

"I am stunned. If you wast an oppinion, I of this speaker I am going to give it to you.

"He Sucks" Yes I am surprised you use him as an example of your traing.
Here are my reasons.
He reads from his notes
He gets laughs by puting people down.
He snipes other companies.
His choice of adigitives is crude...
"

No, I'm not slamming my own visitor. I'm just trying to point out that everyone does have an opinion, even if they truly have no right to one at times ;-)

Read the rest at:
webmasterinabox.net/blog/2006/07/04/art-of-the-start-a-video-to-remember/
(or click on my name above).

Thanks for sharing your amazing wisdom and terrific insights.

Ravi Jayagopal

[Ahmed Hashim]

Guy,

Great presentation. I'm currently an undergrad at Babson (majoring in enterpreneurship), and I've forwarded this video to a lot of my colleagues and hope that they will get the message. Having had some experience with VC's, I've also discussed this with my so called "entrepreneurship firm" that I'm a part of, and we're definitely implementing some of the ideas you talked about into our operating structure.

Keep it up!

[Michael Bayler]

Guy

Inspired to send you this link to some writing on The Age of Meaning that I did a while back - hope it hits you with a % of the same joy that your speaking did to me!

It's at: http://www.management-issues.com/alchemist.asp

Mike

[Joseph Fung]

Guy,

Its rare that I sit through web videos that are longer than 5 minutes, but I found that yours was spot on. I've forwarded the link to a few colleagues. Really enjoyed the prologue about the early Apple II vs Mac days at Apple. Brought back some memories.

Best regards,

Joe

[Paul Elosegui]

Guy,

it is almost ten years since I first heard your bootstrapping, art of the start talk. Do you really have off days ?

Thanks for sharing

[Rich]

Guy,

I forwarded this video on to my MBA class and at least a dozen people told me how great this speech was. At first they saw it was 40 mins and almost forgot about it -- but after 2 mins of listening, they were hooked and watched the whole thing and almost watched it again!

Seriously...you need to visit our MBA program and infect those MBAs you make fun of with more of your thinking!!

Rich

[Rich]

Well, I'm a grad student at Babson currently (which is known for its entrepreneurship program).

And I loved the joke on MBAs and consultants
Would love to hear you speak at Babson so you can infect the thinking at one of the top entreprenurial MBA programs.

About 10 years I lived in the valley and the first time I heard your words was that infamous graduation top 10 speech.

Glad you have a blog now...

Rich

[Rich]

Guy - do ever speak to MBA students at their Business School?

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Quite often, why?

Thanks,

Guy

[Eric Corl]

Guy, I can't imagine that every speech for you isn't "standing ovation well". I saw you speak in Columbus, OH and you were one of the best presenters I've ever seen. Keep up the good work!

[Coches España]

Why do you repeat the same presentation every single time?

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Because I am a one-trick pony. Why does Sting always sing An Englishman in NY?

Guy

[Christopher]

... truly underutilized.

Your passion is infectious! And, your information is mind-blowing.

Who knew that one's life could be changed for the better in as little as forty minutes.

Thanks for the infection.

[E.Augstkalns]

Thank you, this was great!
More information, than in two day seminar.

[Patrick]

Awesome! Anyone who has been to a Guy Kawasaki keynote knows he is going to go over his time limit. Drives the coordinators nuts, but the crowd just loves it.

[Steve Nguyen]

Guy: You were awesome. I'm not a business person, only an Apple/Mac fanatic. Your speech was personal and funny and honest. Really enjoyed it.

[Alvin]

Awesome speech Guy! I love the way you present, with such authority, honesty, passion, humour and attitude.

[Chris]

Truly Inspiring, Thanks for doing what you do.

[Nancy Brito]

Thanks Guy!
I'm from Portugal and I saw your presentation via google. It's been long since I've experienced such an inspiring speech. I also took notes while listening to you. You made me smile and you made me believe in myself more. Thanks and I LOVE TECHNOLOGY!

[Eric Casaburi]

Mr. Kawasaki,
THANK YOU! I received copy of your vid feed via one of my franchisees. I am growing a brand new Fitness Center Franchise here on the East Coast, and your talk was not only entertaining, and informative, but it splashed a bit of "umph" in my entrepreneurial spirits. I instinctively grabbed a pen and scratch paper and took several pages of notes that I truly believe will be useful to my company and its growth. YOURE AWESOME!

[jf]

What comes through besides your insight & humor is your humanity & genuine concern for helping others. God Bless.

[Brian]

I didn't get the point that you were making about the washing machines in the hotel. Were you saying that the hotel was doing the right thing because they knew that they personally wouldn't use a laundry service? Or, were you saying they were wrong because nobody would want to do their own laundry in a hotel?

[Simon]

I am an accountant / dont have an MBA - how would I create business ideas?

Great talk.

Simon

[Italian guy.]

YOU really "make meaning".

Thank You Guy.

[lpmm]

Dear Ryan Petersen,
I'm in China, and I can see this video, although the speed is too slow.

I can only see the start right now.

Hey Guy/team,
Google Video is not yet available in China (and probably other countries). If you could post this in a downloadable format, you would gain much appreciation on this side of the pacific!

Thanks!
Ryan Petersen
Expreference.com

[Mary Beth]

thanks guy - you helped me remember what I most liked about my job and why I felt like I was missing something.... that part of it has changed. It was that whole evangelist/change the world part. Apparently gone. Guess I learned what to look for in the next gig. (I work to support my real passion...)

[valli bindana]

I was there and it was electrifying! And I also saw you leave the auditorium with a huge grin... you enjoyed it it as much as everyone did, didn't you?

[Steve Mertz]

Guy as an entrepreneur I loved your presentation and jotted notes...as a professional speaker I was distracted by language that would offend someone in the audience. You wasted the first 7 minutes of your presentation warming up-after that you were on fire!

[Jesper Bram]

Great performance, Guy.
Just as inspiring as when I saw you at Reboot in Copenhagen almost eight years ago.

Still using the light bulb joke I see. ;-)

Cheers,
Jesper

[Vivek Bhargava]

guy - i have heard so much about his speech from so many different people - that i had to see it. You need to give this in downloable format. Even though i am on a wifi in a london hotel (which is assume is better than our connections in India) - still the video pauses every 5 seconds.

Cheers
Vivek

[Ryan Petersen]

Hey Guy/team,
Google Video is not yet available in China (and probably other countries). If you could post this in a downloadable format, you would gain much appreciation on this side of the pacific!

Thanks!
Ryan Petersen
Expreference.com

[Kylark]

Thank you for posting video of this speech! I'm not an entrepreneur but I really enjoyed it.

[Greg Daniluk]

Guy,

I think that the second billion it still before you. Believe me. Be aware of people who say something different, they are hidden bozos ;-)

[paul]

Can you make this available in QuickTime (mp4, mov, etc.)?

My Comcast connection is so bad I can't stream it. I'm trying to download it using Google video, but it's not working so well, and I really don't want to have YA video player.

Why can't Google just make a codec for QuickTime (like Flip4Mac did for WMV). Real, are you listening?

[YeahRight]

Guy,

Very nice lecture, except for the part where you say you don't care about returns but rather look for "meaning".

That sounds like the ramblings of a rich VC, but when it comes down to it, you're not going to invest in meaning if you don't think you'll get a 10x return

[Jeff Payne]

Wonderful speech! It reminds me of what Nick Morgan said in his book, Working The Room: "The only reason to give a speech is to change the world." Thanks Guy!

Jeff Payne
www.paynecoach.com

[Edwin Khodabakchian]

I read the book and I loved it but this has a different level of intensity in it. This is a must watch for any enterpreneur who is preparing a VC pitch.

Edwin
41 McCormick Lane

[Jim Forbes]

Guy,
I have five Chinese silk brocaid vests. My then 80 year old Mom made them for me for the Demo shows.My personal favorite is the one with gold dragons, red lions on dark blue rich silk.
Go get' em, Guy.

JimF

[Mike Abundo]

Awesome! I'm surrounded by masses of luddite bozos in my country. I am so throwing this in their faces!

[John C. Randolph]

Guy,

HIndsight is tunnel vision. ;-)

-jcr

[Glendon]

Guy,

Would do you always downplay MBAs in your speech? We worked hard at our MBAs and we learnt a lot from our degree. It is so depressing to see you always bashing MBAs in your presentations.

Glendon.

[Stephen Murray]

Just watched this after coming home from the pub and 5 pints of Guinness.
Verdict? Fanf**kingtastic!

[Steve]

Great stuff. I watched it on my 23inch lcd tv via Apple's frontrow. I'll have to 'borrow' the light bulb jokes.

All the best,

- Steve

insearchofthevalley.com

[John C. Randolph]

While I'm sure it hurts to have turned down Yahoo, let's not forget that many, many other opportunities come up that turn out to be companies that contribute to the infant mortality stats for new ventures. There's no way to know which one of a thousand .coms is going to turn out to be Google or Ebay.

-jcr

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John,

Yeah, but $2 billion is still $2 billion. :-)

Guy

[Roger Dodger]

Guy, do you have any plans to release your books as books on tape? I do a lot of driving and am always looking for a good book to listen to while I am on the road. If you haven't looked into this yet, I think it would be a great idea.

[Lance]

Guy:

Just a suggestion: perhaps you should take out the issue of not being able to program the clock on a VCR as an example of why you need to flatten the learning curve in order to to have a workable entrepeneurial idea/product that people will buy.

Maybe I'm wrong but, I didn't think the inability of folks to set the clock on their VCRs really stiffled the market for VCRs. Did it?

I see an awful lot of VCRs in people's houses - despite the fact that they are all blinking "12:00" all day, every day.

Great speech, though!

[Jürgen Eixelsberger]

Power Point slides? Is Guy Kawasaki not using Apples' Keynote?
Anyway, great speech!

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Jürgen,

Only people with little to say need a lot of special effects. :-)

Guy

[Chip]

wow. you changed my life 12 times in under 40 minutes. I'm adding you to my list of heros. Thanks for being you! -and sharing your awesomeness with the world.

~ chip

[L]

Guy! You are AWESOME, simply awesome.

You inspired me, and I won't forget you when we go public ;)

Thank you for such a useful talk!

[Sabine Cretella]

Hi Guy,

I believe this speech is a 100% you - it is what comes through when I read your book(s).

... and to all readers: what do you wait for - get the link to the speech out to the world :-) maybe, if everyone (well ... many ...) listen to it we will really be able to make the world a better place.

Ahhh ... now you are wondering who says this :-) nobody special, it's just me :-)

Sabine

[Sun Bon]

It was sickening to see the organizers literally push you off the stage. Geez, you were only a few minutes behind schdules, just chill out. Conferences are usually expected to behind schedule and many organizers realize that. What a stupid group of people!

[Jon Cantin]

What turned a routine presentation into an exceptional engagement was the guy who kept reminding you of how long you have left or ran over the time. A synergy between the two of you developed in which the audience was rooting for you while the conference heads where “against” you. The tug of war that developed especially around the end couldn't have been better conceived ;-)

What I liked most was the confidence you showed in the situation because of your position in life (financial & personal). You are not some speaker who NEEDS the presentation to pay down his mortgage, you are there because you WANT to be there. This differentiates you from many of the “professional speakers” out there whose income and self esteem come from the presentation while for you, it is probably treated as a bonus.

Jon Cantin
Founder of http://www.myfoodcount.com
Free & Anonymous Health Monitoring
Life: http://jon.legendarylife.com

[Harry Chong]

That was an awesome presentation!

[Andrew]

Great speech as always Guy.

I thought that you were a true gentleman who showed grace under fire. And I also thought it was pathetic and shortminded that the people running the conference were more interested in keeping to their schedule than keeping their audience entertained and informed.

Would it have killed the guy to let you finish in a relaxed, professional, mannor?

Well done again,
-Andrew

[Carlo]

Hi Guy, altought I wasn't able to fully understand your speech, too fast and with some words I couldn't catch, let me congratulate to you for your stunning presentation. It was nice to listen to all the interesting things you blogged here in the last few months (10-20-30 rule, bozosity, and so on), along with your personal decisions. If more CEOs would act like you, I think that the job for more employees would be really much better.
Thanks again.
Greetings from Italy!
Mandi

[Guruh Roy]

Fantastic, good job from you

[Morgan]

Excellent speech. Slightly different from the 2005 version though, but you spoke with more clarity.

[Pamela Slim]

Guy:

You woke me up with your presentation! It was so fun to see you speak and to hear you personally explain what you cover in the Art of the Start. I am somewhat of a presentation junkie (for good presenters anyway) and I delighted at seeing your unpretentious, informative and humorous style at work. Since I have been working from home for more than a year now to take care of my baby, I had a pang of "worksickness" as I remembered what it was like to be in a room full of interested and fired up people. The video got me close!

I did cringe for awhile there as you explained the dreaded "faciliator" that helped create crappy mission statements. Thank God I am not telling people to "fall back" anymore or covering my hands in 5 shades of permanent marker. In fairness, not ALL offsites are meaningless, but I do heartily endorse the "mantra" vs. the "mission."

I wanted to track back to this post on my blog ... did you turn off trackbacks? If so, I'll just include the permalink.

Thanks for firing me up to write for a few more hours tonight. How nice to witness passion and heart in business.

[PP]

Guy,

Invigorating speech! I found your site a couple months ago when I was looking for public speaking tips for a work presentation I was giving. I was suprised to find more interesting information than I expected. I work as a civil/enviromental engineer designing wastewater facilities at a public works agency. I always dream about one day trying to venture out on my own and work for myself and family. Thanks for all the education and inspiration that you provide on your site.

[Michael Price]

If you would like to download the video, google has options for doing so. Just go to http://video.google.com and do a search on Guy Kawasaki. Its the first video on the list. The iPod version is an mpg.4 that will be a second generation compression, so it won't look that great, but it will work.

[alek]

For those that don't listen to the very end of this excellent presentation, Guy basically says his family is worth a Billion dollars using a real-world example when he had a shot of being CEO of Yahoo ... very classy comment.
alek

[Dr. Aini Murni]

Guy,
Just curious, can I download the video so that I can watch it again and again. I love to watch your presentation, FANTASTIC.
Good job, Guy

[William Chao]

Great speech Guy. Do you think that the your delivery of the speech was enhanced by the time constraint? Because of having 40 minutes as opposed to your customary hour, the speech was more rapid-fire and thus carried more intensity?

[Smittie]

Absolutely the most entertaining video I've watched in weeks. Guy Kawasaki is the master of public speaking. It was good all the way through but it really got good at the point where the angry little man told Guy he had four minutes.

"What are you gonna do, not invite me back?"

Someday I'm actually going to figure out how to implement everything Guy says and start my own business.

Smittie

[Love it!]

Love it! Pure Kawasaki!

[Dave Notik]

Great talk, very engaging, and humorous. I finished your book a few months ago and I think it's excellent. I myself just launched what I hope will become my magnum opus, Woven. I follow your blog and hope to continue the conversation. :)

[Sten]

Great talk Guy !

I'm really impressed by your performance.

Sten

[Red]

Nothing like that fresh sheet of ice (errr... company).
The early point about making meaning (although a hard phrase to say/parse) is a key one. Given that VC pitches have "standardized" on a format (15 minutes, 10 slides, 30pt font, $100M in 5years, "exit events") the differentiation comes from the meaning and the presenter's honest belief in that meaning.
Great talk!

[Shmuel]

Guy, that was wonderful. I just made all of my employees watch that! I think you should be careful not to pronounce nuclear the way that you did. (I am a pedant)

[Khurram Masood]

Wow Guy you were on fire! That was a rock star performance. I'm gonna organize a screening of this video at my college public speaking society.

Bold, witty and entertaining to the core. I'm convinced, you're a master at public speaking Guy!

[Jaimie]

Great speech thanks for posting it. Looks like you were having fun which I'm sure helps have an "on" day.

Oh nice watch, I'm a watch junkie, same as Richard Branson wears from time to time.

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Thanks. I have a new Breitling. It's the latest Aerospace. I like it because the digital readout is now back lit!

Guy

[ann michael]

Thank you for putting that on your blog - it's an amazing resource (and I already have the book - now maybe I'll read it!).

They should've let you keep going (although it looked like they were going to get physical toward the end - bah you could take 'em!).

I'm off to write my mantra - Ciao

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Someday TIE will figure out that I'm good enough to have a keynote session. This wasn't a "main session." For that, you have to be either the governor or the CEO of a big company.

Alas, I'm under-utilized...woe is me. :-)

Guy

[Bartek from Poland]

Absolutely amazing! I love it!

[Cecilia]

Fantastic stuff - cheered me up massively today! Thanks Guy for making sure all the Bozos can now be easily detected!

Hey Guy, It was an excellent speech, I totally enjoyed it. Prior to listening to you, I wrote on my blog about creating value with my products for my customers and not bunch of fluff. I thought you said it all so well in one word - "Meaningful". The business proposition got to be meaningful to people's lives. T