Larry Chiang encourages you to be curious about a J.B.A., Jedi in Business Administration. Being a mentee under Mark McCormack can make you seem to perform genius. Neither Chiang nor McCormack went to Harvard Business. Chiang guest lectures at Stanford because he spoke at Harvard Law School. After the HLS keynote, where Chiang quoted Mark McCormack multiple times… Harvard’s Harbus wrote: “What They Don’t Teach You at Stanford Business School”. Subscribe to Larry Chiang’s YouTube videos and see his new series, “How To Not Go Bankrupt As an Entrepreneur”.
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Episode 4, “Can you deliver?”;
Season 1 How To Not Go Bankrupt As an Entrepreneur |
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Deliver on milestones.
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External deliverables
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External deliverables are emotionally painful to even try. For example, people make an excuse to not do the external deliverable work
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Popular EXCUSE: We are going to hire a VP of Sales
Outside help coming in to run distribution and sales is deadly. You will die. |
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POPULAR EXCUSE: I will delegate [external deliverable] tasks. And pay them with worthless stock
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Horrible EXCUSE: We are going to do such a great job on our internal deliverables that the product or service will just magically distribute itself.
Distribution work is an external deliverable |
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Google “Startup Death Spiral”. Duck, down pic.twitter.com/7AAR7wiz2A
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3-5 cofounders. All code. All make. All promote.
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Hiding amongst the “internal deliverables”
– startups conducting meetings like they’re a big company. – feel good checklists that do zero to build shareholder value – laying corporeal structure All deadly |
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What I learned at a fortune 100 company in outside sales:
I only spent 20% of my time selling to outside people. And my title was Sales Engineer. 80% of my time pleasing the administrative overhead. As a founder, you’re going BK if you’re spending 0%-3% of your time selling😂 |
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Working at a baby company staring at financial death is different from that big corporate gig you just left
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Beating a dead horse?!
I think not. It’s so counterintuitive to forge ahead with the craziness of zero corporate structure. Remember, the excuses to not execute External Deliverables are very compelling twitter.com/paulg/status/1… |
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The worst mistake refugees from big companies make when starting startups is probably to divide functions too much. They’ll have separate people doing sales, marketing, and product development. Whereas in a startup it’s ideal if one person does all three initially.
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