Re:Don't Waste Your Time With Guy Kawasaki
by Alex3917 on Friday July 06, 2007 @11:41PM
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I really liked Art of the Start. I read it cover to cover in a day, and then read a couple of his previous books.
However, when reading his earlier books I noticed that a lot of the ideas had been picked up by other bloggers, e.g. Seth Godin. Because of this, the book didn't seem nearly as insightful as it would have if I read it when it was published.
I suspect the same would be true today for AotS because of all the VC bloggers. While many VCs did have blogs two years ago, most of them weren't giving that kind of practical advice at the time. Paul Kedrosky and Fred Wilson had yet to publish many of their best columns, and Venture Hacks and Presentation Zen didn't even exist. Not to mention that PG had only published the first two or three of his essays on startups, the ones in Hackers and Painters (not counting the essays on lisp/coding).
Re:Don't Waste Your Time With Guy Kawasaki
by myoung8 on Saturday July 07, 2007 @12:42AM
(#32897)
This is true and probably explains part of my frustration with the book. The first pieces I ever read on startups were PG's, so I suppose by the time I read AotS, all the points were sort of cliches.
However, when reading his earlier books I noticed that a lot of the ideas had been picked up by other bloggers, e.g. Seth Godin. Because of this, the book didn't seem nearly as insightful as it would have if I read it when it was published.
I suspect the same would be true today for AotS because of all the VC bloggers. While many VCs did have blogs two years ago, most of them weren't giving that kind of practical advice at the time. Paul Kedrosky and Fred Wilson had yet to publish many of their best columns, and Venture Hacks and Presentation Zen didn't even exist. Not to mention that PG had only published the first two or three of his essays on startups, the ones in Hackers and Painters (not counting the essays on lisp/coding).