Guy Kawasaki: A Dozen Don’ts for Entrepreneurs

  • Nothing new here, and upwards of 80% of it is common knowledge on HN.

    Pick which two of the following three items are desirable: revenue, launching early, hiring your uncle as CTO. Wow, you're a sharp one, aren't you.

    On the other hand, I sort of liked this phrase:

    Don’t believe that the exception is the rule. ... Twitter is the exception. Facebook is the exception. YouTube is the exception. There, I listed all the exceptions. Everyone else needs revenue asap, or you will fail.

  • You should work with your spouse. It's great, and a lot of companies have successful husband/wife teams. Here's an HN thread that lists a few: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=663881

    I've liked some Guy Kawasaki articles, like the 10/20/30 rule of PowerPoint, but this article seems hastily written.

    Another fallacy is to think partnerships are bad. Partnerships are great in certain markets. Seek out people... you'd be surprised who'll take a phone call.

  • Wow, you could reverse all these and have a pretty good blog post.

  • The probability that a blogger can confidently say 100% is 0%.

  • The other problem with hiring or co-founding with your spouse is putting all your eggs in one basket. Startups are always in turbulent waters (often financially and always emotionally). A spouse whose main occupation is not your startup can be very helpful as an anchor.

  • I would really like to know the details of Guy's contracts with these publications. He must be raking it in shuffling and reshuffling his posts from site to site.