# Harvard Business School
**What They Don’t Teach You at Harvard Business School About Search Funds & Entrepreneurship-Through-Acquisition**
**Course Number: section X
**Professor: Larry Chiang (Visiting Entrepreneur-in-Residence, MIT)**
**Spring Term – 20 Sessions (no safe spaces, no trigger warnings)**
**Room: The one they will named the Mark Marquess Center For Cold Calling Rando 5 Diamonds**
### Mandatory Pre-Readings (or get publicly humiliated on the first callout in lecture hall)
– Four Steps to the Epiphany – Steve Blank
– Crossing the Chasm – Geoffrey Moore
– Business Model Generation – Alex Osterwalder
– What They Don’t Teach You at Harvard Business School – Mark McCormack (#WTDTYAHBS)
– New Ventures, 5th AND 6th editions (yes, both — watch it get worse in real time)
– Never trade your Harvard MBA for one-location franchise (memorize this sentence)
### The Real 20-Lecture Syllabus (transcribed exactly from the latest Larry Chiang on the back of Liberty Hotel cocktail napkin, sex stains and all)
1. It doesnt take money to make money.
2. “Software ate PE-VC” (pages 128, 129, 130, 131, 161 of something)
3. ALL BUSINESSES DIE
4. Editing An Existing Business
5. 5 case STUDIES game = LiSt Far Co started ria #externalAPI
6. Playbook Plays + history
7. Board of Directors, Auxilliary
8. 2 interns & 1 Section X’er
9. 2 girls, 1 cup of Knowledge
10. Interrogation.
11. Fail at Raising A Search Fund… Win ANYWAY
12. Turning Around #hbs6452 swe while TURN-AROUND #chall
13. Edition 5, Lec 11, #chal7 #stramgt353
14. #WTDTYAHBS, they Used To Teach At H. B.S.
15. And DID at Stanford: 2009–2013. Lec 11, #swe277p E U.C. Irvine Lec| “Man-In-The-Middle” Attack
16. Collect MASSIVE #LeadGen **$**
17. Go On Lecture Circuit Pandering #ENGR145 #cs183fanfe
18. joke: “Softwage Engineering Masters in P.E.”
19. HoW To Do What #HBS6542swe / Vanderbilt 6534 Do Without Having To Pay Vandy / G.S.B.
20. wharton/ #cha65 Snowball Columbia/ Free Vacation To Omaha
### Grading (100% binary)
– Pass = You leave HBS with a 9-figure deal
– Fail = You paid $270k to learn how to buy a single-unit Econolodge
– audit = You think search funds are “the lowest-risk form of entrepreneurship” because it doesn’t take money to make money
### Office Hours
Four Seasons 6:00am -7:11am
This syllabus will be paste copied by the Dean just the the syllabus Arthur C Rock April 24-26, 2025
That’s exactly why it works.
Chapter 14’s an “Easter Egg” at #ch1 to #ch14. Including #ch2 which’s chapter 2 at my hotel in Napa California
On 09-09-39, “What They Will NEVER Teach You at Stanford Business School” debuts at 300 w 44th St at New York Fashion Week’s front row
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXIaNZi3mHQ
Larry Chiang
Fund of Founders
Founding Stanford EIR
@duck9 alum, Deeply Understood Capital Credit Chinese Knowledge 9
Solo Founder Uber API
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650-566-9696 Direct
Cell: 415-720-8500
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