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What Microsoft Is This the Altair Basic of (Redux)
What Microsoft Is This the Altair Basic of (Redux) by Larry Chiang (no rights reserved, no copyright, no attribution or link back requested One essay takes you from Silicon Valley outsider to Bay Area insider. This one essay gets you deeper into YC and deeper than deep into Stanford University knowledge. This essay is the sequel to Paul Graham’s three quarters baked, essay “What Microsoft is this, the Altair Basic of?” #hiLarryAss: I take what alpha males flippantly publish direct to Techmeme.
What is ENGR 145x?
What is ENGR 145x? by Larry Chiang on July 28, 2015
Executing Alex Salazar’s Best Startup Tip
I sat in the front row when Alex spoke and took crazy notes. Some at Stanford University would call this “Sitting first chair entrepreneurship”. Remember, if you don’t have the book-smart confidence to sit in the front row to learn about street smarts in a classroom, you can get that confidence to sit ‘first chair entrepreneurship’ His exact words were, “on sales calls, it’s important to define dollars”. If you’re a CS major, there is a founder subroutine to seek out: #EUBM.
I want to be the best friend that you’ve met over the net
Update: thank you for having shared. This post was cranked out in an hour so feel free to text me if you’re confused. The majority of human sheep do not ever arbitrage. To them, it is extra work with vague returns. To them, the “cognitive misers”, they’re too lazy to read in depth.
The Innovation of “Crossing the Chasm from the Right” #CTCFTR
The Innovation of “Crossing the Chasm from the Right” #CTCFTR by Larry Chiang on July 27, 2015 By Larry Chiang This is the state of The Chasm In 1776, dodging bullets and hiding behind a tree was considered a military faux pax PG draws this diagram a lot. PG’s diagram plugs into my #CTCFTR diagram (sexual double entendre intended) Largest. Startup. Innovation. Ever.
How large is your Red Zone?
How large is your Red Zone? By Larry Chiang Deals close in the red zone. In football parlance, the red zone is near the end goal, end zone. The red zone is what you enter before entering the touchdown area of the field. Wheely’s is a tool to do pop up table to do sales. A pop up table is an ad hoc Growth Hack in the real world where you SELL SOMETHING (for example http://bit.ly/mcuban711 What’s Wheely’s!?
How to at least pretend your FICO score is not ADHD #FreeCreditReport
How to at least pretend your FICO score is not ADHD #FreeCreditReport by Larry Chiang on July 21, 2015 By Larry Chiang Putting your cell out there helps me just ass much as we help others… My goodness, attention deficit is real! Your FICO score takes a hit if you don’t get what I text back. 7 ways is bad 7 different directions zaps your momentum. One. good. direction. Download the Twitter app Download the Twitter app Download the Twitter app Download the Twitter app
What They Dont Teach You At Stanford Business School
By Larry Chiang Old Startup Wisdom versus Y combinator wisdom; versus my mentor’s wisdom Old wisdom was to go after everyone and not really make anyone that happy… Similar to pic.twitter.com/DzM3u0qtvr PG: The most important graph I draw startup founders Simplified, PG means Focus on making a small number of people VERY happy.
Casting Agency calling LARRY CHIANG, for Shark Tank SXSW
What A Super Model Can Teach a Harvard MBA About Credit http://www.slideshare.net/larrychiang/what-a-super-model-can-teach-a-harvard-mba-about-credit My Stanford Engineering video boils down 20,000 hours and moves you to the right on the entrepreneur bell curve **************** Editor of the BusinessWeek Channel “What They Don’t Teach at Business School” http://whattheydontteachyouatstanfordbusinessschool.com/blog CNN Video Channel: http://ireport.cnn.com/people/larrychiang Read my last 10...
Largest Startup Innovation, Ever #CTCFTR
Largest Startup Innovation, Ever #CTCFTR by Larry Chiang on July 20, 2015
Businesses of all sorts teeter on Bankruptcy a lot
Starting up a business is really hard and really easy I think mentors help a lot. Mentors pace the way. Mentors write down thoughts that you can think. Now meet James Gutierrez and Roy Sosa. I wanna install the Stanford GSB knowledge they have to… FTC Disclosure: I financially benefited as a supermodel that has made money modeling for KB home, Pulte Home and a bunch of housing related entities. FTC DISCLOSURE- as a credit expert, I arbitrage people with low FICO scores.
If by week #40, your baby is not a 6’5″ Asian CEO, supermodel, just leave it for dead
I wanna tell you a story. It’s about a super good looking Asian that rose to have a high IQ. It was not always the case. At one point, it was small. Plot spoiler, I was not always 6′ 5″. I used to be a baby This is analogous to an Illinois engineering undergrad put on academic probation after summer school. Like that makes any sense. Well, I know first hand what it is like to be diagnosed retarded.
If you have no taste buds, adding 30-35 steps to Gua Gua Guacamole won’t matter
Stuff you can't learn in B-school: LARRY CHIANG If you have no taste buds, adding 30-35 steps to Gua Gua Guacamole won’t matter By Larry Chiang GuaGuaGuacamole is the entrepreneurship metaphor that you can feel in your mouth Gua Gua Guacamole Pit is where Guacamole recipes are stored (For example Minimum Viable Party) ANOTHER example is GuaGuaGuacamole‘s flagship recipe: #EUTWMPPM What does EUTWMPPM stand for!?
GuaGuaGuacamole is an entrepreneur metaphor you eat
Duck9 is a credit score prep program that is like a Kaplan or Princeton Review test preparation service. We don't teach beating the SAT, but we do get you to a higher credit FICO score using secret methods that have gotten us on TV, Congress and newspaper articles. Say hi or check out some of our free resources before you pay for a thing. You can also text the CEO:
Duck Chapter 9 Bankruptcy (#DuckCh9Bk)
When they say it is darkest before the dawn…, They mean you teeter on Bankruptcy. Silicon Valley loves the “Come” but does not do well in a downturn. Historically, money is made in a downturn of economy and a downturn in our own fortunes. Chamillionaire is EIR at UpFront ventures. I was EIR at Stanford when this shot was taken Let us examine the scary ass, street smart maneuver of DuckCh9 bankruptcy. 1) You should try to double sales ASAP. Going to a great college got you your VC.
Two Hard Skillsets
Two Hard Skillsets by Larry Chiang on July 17, 2015 By Larry Chiang Getting a CS degree is “hard”. Speaking to seasoned executives is hard also. They’re hard in polar opposite ways. They’ve almost no overlap. Doing both helps you because few know CS. Few know selling to old people. Almost no one can do both. Take this seasoned exec that Travis is trying to “sell”: DeBlasio is the mayor of NYC.
Who Mentors Your Credit Score Cherry Getting Popped.
Before your FICO score gets registered, you are a credit virgin. Many people start their FICO with a credit collection that industry insiders call a “charge-off” (credit code “9”) $100 intro bonus after spending $500 in 1st 90 days? [I will fact check this deal.] BankAmericard cash rewards #530Lytton $100 intro bonus after spending $500 in 1st 90 days?[I will fact check this deal.] Thiel de la Peter went to college at a time when 15k credit lines were prevalent.
What if you are not Y Combinator or Stanford. Can you still succeed in Silicon Valley?
What if you are not Y Combinator or Stanford. Can you still succeed in Silicon Valley? UPDATE [07-15-15 4:19pm] I lifted my anonymity because I wanted to exemplify that anyone can have a two way conversation with YC or/and Stanford University if you simply master steps #1 to #5 Step #1) Master the Y Combinator essays (and the book Founders At Work) 1b) remember the Bit.Ly links.
Hi Five is one paw. NOT TWO
Hi Five is one paw. NOT TWO Larry Chiang has a Jedi in Business Administration. It’s the sum total of business tricks, street-smarts, blogging a lot, premiering a year and a half before, grand opening books on top of NY Fashion Week runway shows and predicting that “09-09-09″ would be September 9, 2009. Yup, the date he launched, “What They Don’t Teach You At Stanford Business School”.
Supermodel Invites
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I Advocate Business School. Specifically, Stanford Business School (SBS)
I used to say go to GSB but then a bunch of people tweeted me from the river. I’m like, “What river is there in 94305?” “No, no. I said GSB dos. I meant the section Dos.” Here is proof: I knew David Rohrsheim before stanford. /1/ He was referring to my help with getting a high FICO as a new American. He’s Aussie. /2/ I fully endorsed his going to b-school /3/ what they don’t teach in b-school is a method to get you curious about business school BEFORE YOU ATTEND. It’s called “knowledge activation”.
Bk for startups, is also known as, “ABC”
Bk for startups, is also known as, “ABC” by Larry Chiang on July 14, 2015 By Larry Chiang Bankruptcy is also known as “Bk” For startups, the shutdown is not a normal asset liquidation with re-org. It is Assignment Benefit of Creditors. ABC. It is not to be confused with ABCD… …ABCD is “American Born Chinese Dog” = Shih Tzu. Bk/ABC Industry lingo for Bankruptcy via Assignment Benefit of Creditors. See chris @a16z’s “ABC” tweets by “summize searching in $twttr American Born Chinese
Business School after Engineering School
Engineers have a protocol called 2+2. It’s where you go to business school for two years after working, two years. Here is where you can see more http://www.duck9.com/blog/uncategorized/business-school-for-engineers-to-do-networking-before-business-school/ Here is where you can hack money, before you hack business school. I call these “Pop Up Internships”. And they let you keep 100% of what you make.
Larry Chiang at MobileBeat 07/13/2015 to TUESDAY July 14, ’15
Larry Chiang has a Jedi Business Administration degree that helps for growth hacking. Signature business recipes via ‘signature business protocols’ were gleaned from his mentors’, Mark McCormack’s, book. Using that book, Chiang ‘growth hacked’ the 09-09-09 launch of “What They Don’t Teach You At Stanford Business School” at a runway at New York Fashion Week. Sundance and SXSW were distribution channels for “#WTDTYASBS”.
Yup, a FedEx Track Can Help You Close Deals as a CS Major
Yup, a FedEx Track Can Help You Close Deals as a CS Major Larry Chiang has Jedi business tricks in the form of signature business recipes. The ‘signature business protocols’ included shoplifting-in-reverse, a product in Whole Foods at CNN in NYC, writing blog posts in GigaOm one point 5 years before it was available on Amazon, and grand opening the NYT book at NY fashion week runway 09-09-09. “What They Don’t Teach You At Stanford Business School”.
OAKLAND airport; No UBER
OAKLAND airport; No UBER by Larry Chiang on July 11, 2015 #OAKairportNoUBER Avoid the traffic. Download the Twitter app
#2400OgdenAvenue cc: #PObox5382
It is a hashtag with the double entendre of duck (credit code) 9. Duck as in avoid charge-offs. I got tired of telling Kappa Alpha Thetas, “Avoid charge-offs from random credit crap like Victoria’s secret orders and tollway tolls you skipped.” Credit code9 is charge-off’s are complicated so now I just say, “hashtag duck9″ SO why, “Hashtag 2400 Ogden Avenue, all one-word, no-space”??!? Because your credit score will go to Bolingbrook and the depths of Aurora (back when those towns were cheap.
First NYFW Show Sans American Express and Mercedes Benz
While I do not do my own ‘butt work’ via the meme: #Belfie, I do have a moneymaker. This: While Amex might have pulled out of New York Fashion Week (NYFW in Manhattan), I’m doling out 25,000 Westin hotel points. If you get a Westin Hotels Amex card (new to SPG only, so lol no platinum club double-dips and no Gold Club member 3-ways with St Regis and W-Hotels.) 25k points plus a first year free means about 1,050.00 in hotel room comps when you utilize them correctly.
Larry Chiang at Fashion Week, Sept 9 -20. NYFW 09-09 to 09-17
Larry Chiang at Fashion Week, Sept 9 -20. NYFW 09-09 to 09-17 by Larry Chiang on July 9, 2015 By Larry Chiang Under the tents! Well, Amex isn’t sponsoring. But I’m still here to help with your FICO score. In fashion, things sometime go awry– Let us make a plan for a great month of fashion in September!! Lisa Falzone is speaking sometime between SEPT 13-17 at World Economic Forum. Lots going on!! See some highlights from 2009, (2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 and Feb 2015 it was MBFW.
#cs183creditScore = “CS 183 Credit Score”
#cs183creditScore = “CS 183 Credit Score” by Larry Chiang on July 8, 2015 By Larry Chiang Have you read “Zero to One“. It’s a Peter Thiel tome. His first. In short, it’s a theory explained in a book that borders on a “protocol”. What I mean is that he wrote a book as a person with a 200++ IQ about the process of going Zero~~> ONE. (Btw, I’m guessing his IQ to be 144. And his FICO to be “730”) Well, you can doubt and argue. But here are somethings that you cannot refute -#cs183 was a class.
GigaOm Movie Premier Moneyball
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The #PObox26926 Protocol That Helps You Duck 9s and Duck That $600.00 PENALTY
The #PObox26926 Protocol That Helps You Duck 9s and Duck That $600.00 PENALTY You’re here on this website designed for sorority girls because you were searching for something… FasTrak has some pretty bad Yelp reviews. FasTrak can collect on that bridge-toll-based charge-off by ransoming your DMV attempt at Driver’s License renewal in CA. Duck charge-offs. Duck 9’s. 9s are credit code charge-off. FasTrak is much, much better at collecting on a debt. Than you are at ducking the collection.
Building Credit Score
Building Credit Score by Larry Chiang on July 1, 2015 By Larry Chiang Do you agree with this tweet? Public is out there wondering what their FICO score is. You make your credit score. #BCSeutwm Wells Fargo employs horses Maybe see what these smart thetas did: Larry Chiang banked his first million at Harris Bank, Naperville. Download the Twitter app and see the hashtag #BCSeutwm
Pop Your “1st Customer Cherry”
So as a college student, your credit cherry got popped correctly – De-virginizing correctly matters. Well, as a collegiate founder, getting your first customer is a large milestone! I argue, getting your first paying customer is wayyyy harder than getting into YC or STANFORD University. Seriously, serious. Getting your first customer is like Christmas! Quotes from the movie about “sales”.
300 Bucks
I care about the money. There are VCs walking around with literally a $350k line of credit in their wallet, a $300mm fund and maybe 60 bucks cash. Let us backtrack. Have you heard of the Innovation Chasm!? It’s about a book called crossing the chasm. I am a bit of a doctoral thesis expert You know those signs that say “NO SOLICITATION”. They’re not meant for CS majors to abide by. The road to $600,000 #ENGR145 stops by $300.
Can you name a startup that isn’t a “Sequel”?!
This theory makes me incredibly popular with connected Silicon Valley rising stars. But the following same theory makes my massively unpopular to the entrepreneurial uninitiated. This theory: Everything’s a sequel. Every concept that the uninitiated deems “original”, we initiated conclude: Yup, that pitch we just heard is a sequel. Yes, I heard that they’re crossing the chasm because they got timing-market-timing, correct.
Your Revenue “Cherry”
A lot of founders still have their hymen. You do not want to be a revenue virgin. You do not want to be a cliche Silicon Valley founder who raises a round of VC, institutional money, only to then never get one paying customer. Pop your revenue cherry.Do not be a loser and sell VCs on investing but never selling a real world customer.
Your Revenue “Cherry”
Your Revenue “Cherry” by Larry Chiang on June 30, 2015 By Larry Chiang A lot of founders still have their hymen. Pop your revenue cherry. In the same way I make sure Download the Twitter app Download the Twitter app
The Wrongest Founder Move Ever
The wrongest. The most wrong thing you can do as a founders: Taking your innovative widget and marrying it to something else that also has NOT crossed the innovation chasm. Here is an example, you don’t promote the Sonos or Walkman or music-player by having a testimonial be given by a no-name band that no one has heard of. Let’s not laugh. Let’s look at a lunch I had with a female founder. She had something innovative and awesome. So, female founder has an awesome startup.
Larry Chiang’s Money Hashtags De-Scrambled
Larry Chiang’s Money Hashtags De-Scrambled by Larry Chiang on June 29, 2015 By Larry Chiang Money has a set of subroutines I curated like a museum curator. Except, I do not collect masterpiece paintings. I collect the best subroutines about money and entrepreneurship and VC. By my own admission, this tweet is tough to understand. But it’s one of 49,900 tweets all meant to make you wealth. This one tweet at March 23, 2015, at 10:08 AM is 140 characters of 49,900×140 characters.
Larry Chiang’s Twitter Poem about FICO
I can drop a Shakespearean Sonnet because it’s an EFFEN Wednesday! Meet an app called Experian Positive info High FICO for-the-win! Collect derogatory they do happily,Meet an app called ExperianPositive info #POBox4500 , sadly.High FICO for-the-win! Well on Twitter I busted out a rhyme about credit score: Credit mistakes and derogatory information, like charge-offs, are collected. #POBox4500 . It’s law that they need to augment the negative info with your side of the story. That is a law.
#KPACgoals - Kimberly Palmer, alpha consumer goals
: We share just about everything, but what about @alphaconsumer @PaulaPant pco.lt/1BBa2h3 #SocialMedia : We share just about everything, but what about #goals ? My advice @USNewsMoney So twice daily, I set a startup intention. 11:11. By start up, I mean starting you up. Not purely a tech startup. Starting up You Inc Starting up you FICO via first getting 4 “1’s”. I’m a big Chinese monster as I plod toward this twice daily intention. A shih tzu is a Chinese beast.
Lead Gen 101. Parlay cupcakes into customers
Larry Chiang landed on the New York Times Best Selling list by pre-rolling and pre-promoting eighteen months before the “09-09-09″ launch of What They Don’t Teach You At Stanford Business School. Hollywood optioned WTDTYASBS’s scene treatments because as CEO of Duck9, he hosted film festival parties at Sundance and SXSW. He’s testified before Congress and during TV interviews he tracks his own “mentor mentions per press interview” (#MMPPI) His mentors are Gerri Detweiler and Mark McCormack.
Arlo
Critics call me a “star-effer”. Well I don’t think I’ll be having intercourse with this cartoon dinosaur… [But bear with me. This blog post applies to pre-entrepreneurs and newbie founders to win #SXSW March 4, 2016] Critics are correct though. I am with stars of Silicon Valley 24-7-365 via my firehouse Twitter feed. On notifications direct to iPhone 7’s, I am JJ in Disney’s #TheForceAwakens Anaheim teaser event where the #BB8 ball droid debuted.
Rule of 72, 11:11 and the Role of Semi Pro Physicists. And Belfies
Before Albert was a pro physicist, he was a semi pro physicist and full time accountant. Albert Einstein won an award doing a lead generation effort called Rule of 72. It’s compounding interest. 24 on-time payments gets you a FICO score over 750 Twenty-four 1’s gets you a credit score over 750.
Where is Goofball Island!?
Where is Goofball Island!? by Larry Chiang on June 23, 2015 By Larry Chiang In the movie Inside Out, goofball island is a place inside your head. If you cease to stay a child, goof ball island goes offline. Let goof ball island go unused for too long and it goes away forever.
Twice $175mm is $350,000,000
Twice $175mm is $350,000,000 by Larry Chiang on June 24, 2015 By Larry Chiang Omg, $350,000,000.oo! 8:04 am there was $175,000,00 and 7:38PM…, another $175mm Yes, two investors wanna invest $175mm (no board seat)
Shot Across the Bow
Naval warfare is taught at an academy all about winning wars on water. Below water too. Water warfare has a lot of details that can sink you. Pun intended. A 100% dedicated-to-naval-war, college. Four years of it. While I’ve never crashed Annapolis, I did crash a school all-about-startups. STANFORD UNIVERSITY. Stanford is notoriously startup focused. DISCLOSURE: I crashed the business school but was invited to the engineering school at Huang, Y2E2, Terman and Huang.
Prime the pump
Prime the pump by Larry Chiang on June 24, 2015 By Larry Chiang Entrepreneurship and starting a ‘Mini Company Concept’ often refers to priming the pump. It’s using a fluid dynamics analogy to CS students. Metaphorically, you miss the subtlety that emotionally, the act of priming, is self-loathing, self-questioning and completely counterintuitive to the uninitiated I mean why should you pour a perfectly good bucket of water down the well in the hopes of priming?
TechCrunch Community and the Hashtag #PObox105281
TechCrunch Community and the Hashtag #PObox105281 by Larry Chiang on June 23, 2015 September 20 – Sept 23 is TechCrunch Disrupt Peter Thiel asks: What opinion do you have that puts you in the minority? Answer: techCrunch and the greater tech community do not think a “po box” has a role. FCRA thinks there’s a role.
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