Kawasaki: A startup fundamentally requires only making and selling
Guy Kawasaki · 20 VC 001: Guy Kawasaki of Apple, Motorola and AllTop.com · Jan 13, 2015 · at 10:54
Guy Kawasaki outlines his core mental model for startup execution during his appearance on 20VC.
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“Well, it's kind of simple, you know, somebody's got to make it, and somebody's got to sell it. That's it in a nutshell. And so this is about the guy or gal who's selling it, and then we have to find, you know, something else for the guy who is making it. So that's, you know, that's the two things you have to do in a startup.”
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