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Guy Kawasaki's fun email signature

I just got an email from the famous (and with respect to his Twitter activity, some would say infamous) Guy Kawasaki . His email signature is really hilarious, which is why I want to share it with you: Sent from a MacBook not an iPhone. -------------------------------------- Guy Kawasaki Nononina, Inc. 360 xxxx Street, Suite 100 Palo Alto, CA 94301 http://alltop.com/ xxxx@xxxx.com (best way to get in touch) 650-838-xxxx office (you'll never get me here) 650-387-xxxx cell (Spinvox will convert voicemail to email so I don’t have to listen to people ramble) 650-853-xxxx fax (what's a fax?) http://twitter.com/guykawasaki (if you have no life) http://blog.guykawasaki.com/ (if you want to see why I have no life) http://holykaw.com/ (if you want to see how I have fun in my life) (Replaced some details with Xs to protect his privacy in the unlikely case that he has any.)

Zendesk - Help Desk 2.0

Following my long-due update on Pageflakes here’s an update on what I’ve been doing since I’ve left Pageflakes. After spending some time with my family at a beautiful place in the sun , I started to look for new opportunities (to be perfectly honest I of course couldn’t resist researching new ideas while we were still on Barbados. Caribbean beaches and a DSL connection, what more can you ask for?). For various reasons I wasn’t yet ready to start my own thing again so I started to look for existing early-stage companies where I could come in as an angel investor and advisor. To some degree I “went to the dark side” (of funding) as it’s sometimes referred to but I’m really trying to be worthy of the term “angel” investor by really trying to help my companies in many different ways. The first company I’ve made an investment in is Copenhagen-based Zendesk , founded in 2007 by a rock-star team around CEO Mikkel Asger Svane . This is no new news since it was announced last June and cover...