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Guy Kawasaki

Chief evangelist at Canva; earlier Apple's Macintosh evangelist and a co-founder of Garage Technology Ventures.

The Art of the Start breaks early-company work into concrete tasks - pitching, positioning, recruiting, bootstrapping, partnering - for founders with no prior company behind them. The Macintosh Way and Selling the Dream document how Apple built developer and customer evangelism into a product launch, which is where the modern practice of developer relations comes from.

7 books of their own · 11 books they recommend

Books they wrote 7

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  1. The Art of the Start 2.0Guy Kawasaki, 2015
  2. The Macintosh WayGuy Kawasaki, 1990
  3. Selling the DreamGuy Kawasaki, 1991
Guy Kawasaki · 1995 · Kawasaki on competing through service, speed and irritating incumbents
Guy Kawasaki · 1993

Books they recommend 11

Good Books compiles this list from interviews, podcasts, articles and social posts; the site does not link each title to the person’s own words.

Book recommendations listed on their Good Books profile 11

Psychology and Behaviour 2

Robert B. Cialdini, PhD aggregator only

Business and Management 2

Clayton M. Christensen aggregator only

Sales and Marketing 1

Geoffrey A. Moore aggregator only

Entrepreneurship and Startups 1

Mike Michalowicz · not in an entry yet aggregator only

Fiction 1

Margaret Atwood · not in an entry yet aggregator only

Productivity and Habits 1

Scott Belsky · not in an entry yet aggregator only

Art and Design 1

Creative Action Network · not in an entry yet aggregator only

Writing and Communication 1

Brenda Ueland · not in an entry yet aggregator only

Sport 1

Lloyd Percival · not in an entry yet aggregator only

Where they publish 1

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