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Review title: Limited value, for a limited audience
Product review: As others have said, this is not a guide to "starting anything." It's a guide (using that term loosly) to getting VC funding for your "hot" "innovative" "high growth potential" Silicon Valley startup, and to growing that company in its early stages. There might be some good tidbits in here if that's actually you. And if you're planning something else, it's certainly worth thinking hard about whether the "lean startup" approach (as presented here by Kawasaki and elsewhere by many others) can be helpful. Much of the content is highly superficial, and it gets pretty tiresome to read over and over again about the example of the Macintosh launch -- especially given that Kawasaki doesn't even explain what exactly was his role in that effort, and given that the Mac launch seems, based on what he describes in the book, to be the only real, big success of his career.
