Before You Make Money—Make Meaning

Brennon Slattery

January 13, 2011

If you want to build and lead a startup that lasts, one that has vision, values and impacts the lives of its customers—you need to start with meaning.

That’s the philosophy of Guy Kawasaki, founder and Managing Director of Garage Technology Ventures. In Part 1 of 16 of his lecture series for Stanford University’s Entrepreneurial Thought Leader Speaker Series, Guy discusses his belief that those companies that bloom with honorable intentions become the most successful, and they do so in three steps:

  1. Increase quality of life
  2. Right a wrong
  3. Prevent the end of something good

Check out the rest of Guy’s talk by following the video link.

Marketing and Web Designer

Brennon is a Marketing and Web Designer at <a href="http://www.acharitablelife.com/">A Charitable Life</a>. He is also a freelance writer and the author of over 600 PCWorld articles. Before A Charitable Life, he was the Project Manager, Web Designer/Developer at Pearson.