https://www.youtube.com/embed/HHjgK6p4nrw
Here’s a great little video of Guy Kawasaki speaking at the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley on 10 mistakes that entrepreneurs make — particularly if they’re rockstar engineers trying to disrupt the pet food industry.
- Multiplying big numbers by 1%
- Scaling too soon
- Partnering
- Pitching instead of prototyping
- Using a font smaller than 30 points
- Doing things serially
- Believing 51% is control
- Believing patents = defensibility
- Hiring in your own image
- Befriending your VCs
- Thinking VCs can add value
