By Larry Chiang
I’m here to take notes of the stuff that really works. It’s not watered down and a lot of it is massively unpopular because it’s hard and counterintuitive.
That’s my attention getter. If you wanna leave this blog post, I won’t judge you. This blog post will end with a June 30, 2010 tweet that bookends the horrible truth: as a dual degree Stanford MIT person, you’re still going to need to recruit users manually, at first and do things that don’t scale.…
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Larry Chiang (@LarryChiang) |
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There is nothing more massively unpopular that saying: “Yup w/your CS degree that you’ll make $190k/yr…, also learn to sell/cold call” 🙂
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The year is 2016++ Re hashtag #cs183s‘
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Larry Chiang (@LarryChiang) |
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What a well timed retweet, @roelofbotha! Re #vcSecrets. Distribution is 20 CS “lectures” inside the hashtag #cs183s‘
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The year is 2016
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CEO of Duck9, Larry (@6502838008) |
The year is 2010
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Larry Chiang (@LarryChiang) |
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More good stuff #E145 @othman More #streetSmart(s) Othman Laraki is wearing @basesEvents polo too. Nice 🙂
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Sarah Kay Hoffman (@sarahkayhoffman) |
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RT @LarryChiang: Street smart #csMajorCEO (@StanfordEng) Othman Laraki speaking at #sessf #140conf. BookSmart + StreetSmart = awesome
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