Given the considerable interest I’ve had in the AngelsWanted idea I thought many of you wound be interested in this panel discussion. Guy Kawasaki is the moderator and the panel includes:

Andy Bechtolsheim. - a co-founder of Sun Microsystems. Then he founded Granite Systems (gigabit Ethernet switches) which Cisco bought. Then he founded Kealia (server technology) [...]

When I reviewed Peter Jones’ Tycoon: How to Be REALLY Rich I highlighted his ten golden rules, this post explains what they are and offers my thoughts on them.
Rule 1: Have a vision. To succeed as an entrepreneurs you need to have a vision that you are working towards. This vision should define your goals [...]

A lot of people have been asking me the same question about my new book, Illusions of Entrepreneurship: The Costly Myths that Entrepreneurs, Investors, and Policy Makers Live By. How can reading the book help someone to become a better entrepreneur?
John Tozzi at Businessweek.com summarizes some of the tips that come from the book in [...]

For all that is written about business and business skills there is only one skill that determines the success or failure of your business. That skill is selling. Don’t be fooled by all the talk about entrepreneurs and their varied entrepreneurial skills, the one skill they all have is the ability to sell. Put simply, [...]

It’s often claimed that small businesses and startup entrepreneurs are at a disadvantage because the lack the funds of bigger businesses. The answer that’s always offered is that entrepreneurs should learn to bootstrap and find creative ways to do more with less. Well this video that I’ve just come across provides a great example of [...]

Do you think you know more about entrepreneurship than Guy Kawasaki?

Was the subject line of an email I recieved on Wednesday from Scott Shane. I have to admit it intrigued me. The email goes on to say:

Do you think you know more about entrepreneurship than Guy Kawasaki?
He took the quiz linked to my new book, [...]

There are dozens of articles, tutorials, books and course offered on business, negotiation and handling suppliers sold every year. There are even more written for the consumer explaining how to get a discount on their purchases. So it amazes me that so few businesses (or consumers) that I meet manage to negotiate a discount on [...]

I doubt any significant endeavour has ever been accomplished by mankind without someone somewhere having first written down the goal. For example consider putting the US efforts to put a man on the moon. The idea wasn’t new but despite the Russian lead in the space race at the time it was the USA that [...]

Coming up with a business idea is easy.
Rejecting a business idea you love is hard.
Starting a business is easy.
Starting the right business is hard.
Starting the wrong business is easy.
Admitting you started the wrong business is hard.
if you already have money then, borrowing to finance a startup business is easy.
If you haven’t got any money, then [...]

We’d all like to be better and we’d like our businesses to be better but it’s all to easy to dismiss big jumps in improvement as being too hard, or requiring too much time when we’re just too busy to spare it.
Mostly we’re just making excuses however. As the old Chinese proverb says:

A journey of [...]