Guy Kawasaki on Innovation Obstacles

Guy Kawasaki is busy. He's a founding partner of seed-stage and early-stage venture capital fund Garage Technology Ventures, co-founder of "online magazine rack" Alltop, and author of nine books, including Reality Check and Rules for Revolutionaries. And if you follow him on Twitter (and more than 19,000 people do), you will probably realize the truth of his words -- that he's discovered a way to use Twitter as a weapon.

Clearly this is someone who has something to say about innovation, and we wanted to hear what that was. In a frank discussion with CIO.com, Kawasaki discusses the difficulty of prioritizing innovation when you are worried about financial survival, why we can't know whether Twitter and other social networks gave Obama the win, and how anyone can be an innovator.

"The most beautiful trend in innovation is that...two [people] in a garage using MySQL, PHP, Rails, and Wordpress can do a lot of damage now -- indeed, this puts large companies at risk." -Guy Kawasaki

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