I love Google Video. They have all the documentries in the world there.

Here are some key points that I’ve made from Guy Kawasaki’s Art of Innovation presentation. If you’ve seen his Art of the Start presentation, then these will look awfully familiar to you. In fact, I think he even used the same slides…

1) The DICEE Concept

Deep - does what it should and antipicates what you need. A product that goes above and beyond in solving a need.

Intelligence - pretty obvious. Put some thought into your products/services!

Complete - great products/services also include the support infrastructure around them, such as support, forums, conferences, websites - everything.

Elegance - has to be easy to use without a 50-page manual.

Emotive - Your product/service should polarize people. Either people will love it or absolutely hate it, but the point is nobody will become indifferent to your product or service.

4) Tips for Your Pitches - The ‘10-20-30 Rule’

10 slides maximum

20 minutes for all the slides

30 is the optimal font size

The rest is for Q&A and other miscellaneous things.

You can view the entire video (~50 min. long) here:

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Peter Kao

Today, I did a 40+ min presentation in front of a panel of 4 judges for the Enterprise co-op option, which assists UW students with their startups. The option was started in 1999 and only around 50 applicants has been approved.

Now, I’m one of them

The presentation went really smoothly and I felt like I’ve expressed my passion and enthusiasm for my venture pretty well. Two of the judges are also involved with the Start Your Own Business Summer Program, so I think I have a pretty good chance on getting a government grant for my business in the summer as well!

The judges were also very helpful in informing me how big transactions in the marketing world are made. There are several challenges that they have brought up that I must think thoroughly over, but what a great experience it was presenting my business!

W00t!!!

- Peter Kao