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Asse9 Austin Secret (@asse9) |
7 Fascinating Data Points When “Customer Development Cycle” Fails cc @LarryChiang #ENGR145
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The “Customer Development Cycle” itself doesn’t fail.
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Larry Chiang (@LarryChiang) |
It’s a problem when CS 183b, How to Start a Start” just glosses right over Customer Development Cycle. When I tweet 3 of 18 lectures were “dedicated”, I mean mentioned.
Download PG’s post https://bit.ly/pgrahamCh6 (his lecture #3 of CS 183b barely mentioned his own blog post!!!)
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Larry Chiang (@LarryChiang) |
30 upvotes!! #ENGR145 is the subroutine to memorize if you want to be a Silicon Valley insider. quora.com/How-do-I-becom…
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Problem: 30 upvotes is a fraction of the up-voting for Quora posts.
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Larry Chiang (@LarryChiang) |
12 people out of 300 will read this. In 2015, maybe 1 in 60 #ENGR145 .com/blog/2013/04/2…
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Solution: as an engineer, read the assigned #CS183b / #ENGR145 / #Stramgt353 / #ChemEng296 #ENGR245 /
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Larry Chiang (@LarryChiang) |
Executing #CSmajorCEO‘s Alex Salazar’s Best Starting a Startup Tip bit.ly/asalazar710
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Alex Salazar is a legitimate CS major from GT.
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Larry Chiang (@LarryChiang) |
CTO to CTO mentorship on “Customer Development Cycle” #ENGR145 ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-808426
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Problem: Your YC classes are huge. Your partners stress “do things that don’t scale but have momentum” #dttdsBHM
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Larry Chiang (@LarryChiang) |
12 PDFs on VC. One PDF for revenue via “sales” ycombinator.com/documents/
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Problem: Your fund is huge and your GP’s hark on sales. Yet all y’all offer zero solutions
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Larry Chiang (@LarryChiang) |
$400mm fund. 6 blog posts on sales: a16z.com/tag/sales/
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Solution:
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Larry Chiang (@LarryChiang) |
Spending a summer doing sales as an engineer, helped me immensely after graduating Illinois, BS Engr, #1 salary
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Usually I enjoy reading your stuff. This post I really LOVE!!!