Byline: ALEX PHAM Boston Globe
BURLINGAME, Calif. -- Guy Kawasaki is being wicked.
As moderator to a panel of start-up chief executives, he asks a question he knows will make them squirm.
``So, are venture capitalists good for anything?'' Kawasaki lobs with deliberate amiability, arching an eyebrow for effect.
A few CEOs nervously chuckle as they ransack their brains for a diplomatic answer. Kawasaki glows, knowing entrepreneurs privately loathe venture capitalists -- call them ``vulture capitalists'' behind their backs -- but dare not say so in public for fear of losing their funding.
Being a troublemaker is all in a day's work for Kawasaki, best known in Silicon Valley as Apple Computer Corp.'s one-time chief evangelist (yes, that was the title), the man who turned down the …
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