What Guy Kawasaki and I have in common

I ordered Guy Kawasaki's The Art of the Start through Amazon.com the other day.

My adviser in the U.S. recommended the book, and I remember his days as an evangelist for Mac when I was in the States.  For the obvious reason his books don't sell in Japan - his thoughts are a bit too foreign for the majority of the Japanese. The Art of the Start is not even translated yet.  Oh, I think the Japanese translation of his books are so bad that it might have something to do with the failure of his books in Japan.

It will take a few more days for the book to arrive here, but in the mean time I found a couple of things I have in common with the Silicon Valley icon:

1: Japanese product.  Kawasaki is a very Japanese name.  Eguro is very rare, but we seem to have Japanese bloodline.

2: Guy Kawasaki and Shun Eguro have both worked for jewelry industry, both dealing diamonds.

As a first real job out of college I worked for a large jewelry manufacture in Japan called Kuwayama Co.  I worked as a broker of loose diamonds.  It was a very challenging job and I learned quite a bit.

I was very pleased to know that Guy thought "it was the hardest job" he'd ever had!

Maybe I'm set to succeed?