It would have taken great courage to do that because at the time, the Macintosh was selling well. You're making $700 gross margin on a Mac and now you're going to go make $35 gross margin on a (software) license? I wish we had, but we didn't. We didn't for that reason. - Guy Kawasaki Quotes
It would have taken great courage to do that because at the time, the Macintosh was selling well. You're making $700 gross margin on a Mac and now you're going to go make $35 gross margin on a (software) license? I wish we had, but we didn't. We didn't for that reason. Guy Kawasaki
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Statistically it's probably one out of a hundred, so that means there's ten out there. Maybe twenty. - Guy Kawasaki Quotes

Statistically it's probably one out of a hundred, so that means there's ten out there. Maybe twenty.

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Patience is the art of concealing your impatience. - Guy Kawasaki Quotes

Patience is the art of concealing your impatience.

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You say:

You say: "I'm bright and ambitious." Investor thinks: "That's a relief because I usually invest in stupid and lazy people."

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 Angels
You say:

You say: "I'm a blue sky thinker." Investor thinks: "You have no business model, and you don't know how to ship."

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 Angels
You say:

You say: "I don't know much about your firm, but I thought I'd contact you anyway." Investor thinks: "You're a lazy idiot--why are you wasting my time?"

Guy Kawasaki

 Angels
You say:

You say: "I've always wanted to be an entrepreneur." Investor thinks: "I've always wanted to be a professional golfer. So what if you always wanted to be an entrepreneur?"

Guy Kawasaki

 Angels
You say:

You say: "If you sign an NDA, I'll tell you my idea." Investor thinks: "You are clueless. How can you not know that venture capitalists don't sign NDAs?"

Guy Kawasaki

 Angels
You say:

You say: "The last time I contacted you, I..." Investor thinks: "I'm going to fire my secretary for putting this clown on my calendar again."

Guy Kawasaki

 Angels
Here's what you should say [to investor]:

Here's what you should say [to investor]: "This is what my company does..." It's that simple. What you're trying to do is get potential investors to fantasize about how your product or service will make a boatload of money. They can't fantasize if they don't know what you do.

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 Angels
Frequently, crashes are followed with a message like 'ID 02'. 'ID' is an abbreviation for idiosyncrasy and the number that follows indicates how many more months of testing the product should have had. - Guy Kawasaki Quotes

Frequently, crashes are followed with a message like 'ID 02'. 'ID' is an abbreviation for idiosyncrasy and the number that follows indicates how many more months of testing the product should have had.

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