Guy Kawasaki on "The Art of Start"

I've always heard good things about Guy Kawasaki, and know he was responsible for much of the success of Apple in both it's early and later years. In addition, he is a noted author and venture capitalist and Angel investor for high tech start ups. So it was with good fortune that I came across the following video lecture:



One thing that is very apparent watching the video, is that the Guy is very articulate and intelligent and is no doubt why he held the role of chief evangelist at Apple. Though very inspirational, I'm very cautious of individuals who talk excessively of things like "innovation", "paradigm shifts", "out-of-box thinking", etc., because only a small percentage of entrepreneurial efforts result in the next Google, Apple, or Microsoft. For every one of these once in a kind successes, there are hundreds, if not thousands of failed efforts.

Nevertheless, its still motivating and inspirational to view, listen or read inspirational people such as Guy and makes me want to scratch my entrepreneurial itch... But, because of my past entrepreneurial pursuits and since I'm not getting any younger, I much more attuned to factoring and mitigating the risks a lot more then I was in the past.

I think its a matter of balancing motivation and inspiration with pragmatism and caution.