speed as THE primary business strategy

I’ve been invited by SDForum to a small dinner of entrepreneurs with Mike Cassidy. While preparing the questons I had to send in advance, I came out with this great presentation from a past event in Startup2Startup about Mike’s strategies to build and sell 3 successful companies (Xfire, Direct Hit and Stylus Innovation).

I recommend taking a look to the slides to get a feeling of how things are done when you want to build success such as this:

He gives advice on how to get a term sheet signed on the first day you are presenting to a VC, how to build and get a team started in days, how to accelerate development, public relations, business development and, also, how to face fast a 180 degrees change.

I already sent my questions but I can probably add more during the dinner, so… What would you ask him?

make meaning

Great and fun 39 minutes presentation by Guy Kawasaki giving advice for entrepreneurs (in 2006 but still useful)

Some meaningful advice:

1- Make Meaning, not Money: Change the world and by doing that you will attract the right people and will finally make money. 

2- Get going and find soulmates that balance you off

3- Don’t let the bozos grind you down

And some practical advice:

1- Have MAT written down (Milestones, Assumptions, Tasks) – Differentiate Milestones from “ToDos”, write your assumptions and don’t forget that your business is hanging on them, validate them when you can. 

2- 10-20-30: give a 10 slides presentations, take 20 minutes and use minimum 30 point font (I had already heard this one being quoted from him and we’ll definitely apply it on our upcoming VC meeting)

This is the video: