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- Affiliation:
- Alltop--the online magazine rack
- Location:
- Palo Alto, CA, 94301
- Phone:
- 650-838-0816
- Birthday:
- 30 August 1954
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Guy Kawasaki Cats with fraudulent degrees
Cat super heroes exist! Wikipedia has a grand list of cats with fraudulent degrees. These undercover animals, mostly feline, went undercover to crack the case of suspected diploma mills. There are such stories as Oliver Greenhalgh - an accepted Fellow of the English Association of Estate Agents and Valuers for an excha...nge of eleven guineas (the British coins, not the pigs). Henrietta Goldacre - a dead cat who received a diploma in nutrition for...Read more
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Posted:2009-11-08 02:06:00 GMT
Guy Kawasaki Why obesity is a leading cause of cancer
According to a new study, obesity causes 100,000 U.S. cases of cancer per year. That number is only expected to rise as Americans get bigger. Cancer is currently the second leading cause of death, next to heart disease. Learn more about this frightening study and how we should all aim to lose those extra pounds, here. Read all the latest stories on cancer. Permalink | Leave a comment »
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Posted:2009-11-08 01:59:00 GMT
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Guy Kawasaki Why crocs crashed
It’s true that you can have too much of a good thing - especially in the case of branding. The last thing you want is to burn too bright, too fast, only to fizzle out in a few months. Take crocs, for example. If they had made better branding strategy decisions, they’d still be a shoe wear staple, rather than a soon to be forgotten fad. It’s important to remember some key...
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Posted:2009-11-08 01:13:00 GMT
Guy Kawasaki 10 photography DIY hacks
Check out this list of ten DIY photography tips. I must admit that they might a little too geeky for me, but I love the spirit of them. More Photography tips and tricks. Permalink | Leave a comment »
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Posted:2009-11-08 00:32:03 GMT
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Guy Kawasaki Have you had a good fall lately?
An alpine ski racing coach once told Michael Schwalbe of Behance that racing is 40% physical training, 30% technical skill and experience, and 30% willingness to take risks. In ski racing the 40-30-30 rule meant taking more chances and increasing the likelihood of falling. In fact, his coach told him that if he wasn’t falling at least once a day, he wasn’t trying hard enough. What’s true in ski racing is true...
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Posted:2009-11-07 23:51:00 GMT
Guy Kawasaki Twitterature: Favorite books in 140 characters
Forget everyone’s favorite college BFF, Cliff Notes, because Huffington Post readers have condensed all your favorite books into an easily digestible, appetizer-sized tidbits. Ok, it might not be all your favorite books per se, but it’s at least all the books you need to know a little something about to look smart in front of your pretentious relatives....
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Posted:2009-11-07 23:30:03 GMT
Guy Kawasaki The genesis of Cafemom
Are you a CafeMom user? Check out this video to learn about the origin of this virtual haven for moms. Believe it or not, two dads started it. Seven people built the site in seven weeks! More mommy blogs than you can probably handle. Permalink | Leave a comment »
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Posted:2009-11-07 23:27:13 GMT
Guy Kawasaki If you like Etsy, check this out
You’ve got to love Etsy. It’s doing $180 million/year now with artists selling their handmade arts and crafts. Check out this video to see how Etsy works and the philosophy of the company. Total aggregation of Etsyrati. Permalink | Leave a comment »
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Posted:2009-11-07 23:20:37 GMT
Guy Kawasaki Leadership lessons from restauranteur Drew Nieporent (Nobu, Tribeca Grill)
Drew Nieporent is the entrepreneur behind the restaurants Tribeca Grill, Nobu, and Centrico. In this video (sorry, I can’t embed it), he explains why “chains” is a bad word and how “fish stinks from the head”—in other words, the head of an organization has to set the pace for all employees. More on Leadership and Food. Permalink | Leave a comment »
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Posted:2009-11-07 23:11:48 GMT
Guy Kawasaki Shakespeare in graphic-novel form?
When you think of Shakespeare, you likely aren’t picturing graphic-novels. But illustrator Gareth Hinds does. He just illustrated a graphic-novel version of King Lear. And all you purists can rest easy, because Hinds has distilled all the play’s betrayal, passion, action, and of course - poetry. The text is shortened t...o fit the style of a graphic-novel, but he never strays from the story and he included as much original text as...Read more
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Posted:2009-11-07 23:08:00 GMT
Guy Kawasaki 2009 ranking of the world's universities
Academic Ranking of World Universities released the 2009 rankings. #1: Harvard. #2: Stanford. #100: Emory. Eight out of the top ten are in America. Two are in Europe (University of Cambridge and University of Oxford). There are also rankings by subject areas. For example, in Computer Science, Stanford is #1, and MIT is #2. More on Education. Permalink | Leave a comment »
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Posted:2009-11-07 22:52:00 GMT
