Making Meaning

So the other day I came across a video of Guy Kawasaki, Guy was at Apple computers in the early days and help build the company into one of the prominent industry leaders of the day.

But these days Guy heads up a venture capital company called Garage Technology Ventures.

The video focused on his book "The Art of the Start". One of the many great points in this video was this rule for successful entrepreneurs.

Make Meaning

Focus on making meaning, not money. If your vision for your company is to grow it just to flip it to a large company or to take it public and cash out, "you're doomed". Kawasaki says that great companies are built around one of three kinds of meaning:

1. Increase the quality of life. Make people more productive or their lives easier or more enjoyable.

2. Right a wrong. A variant on the above. Be a part of the solution, not a part of the problem.

3. Prevent the end of something good. Preserve something classic or historical. Save the whales.

I believe that Navsports follows this rule and it was great to know that what I am trying to do with Navsports is all about the three points above.

The rest of his video was equally insightful and I pick up some great pointers.

The status of Navsports, is that we are moving ahead swimmingly. Great progress and features are being developed every day.

We are heavily using Ajax throughout the site to maximise the users experience and I must say that this technology is really cool.

Well back to work for me.

Stewart