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Marc Andreessen (@pmarca) |
People can get mad when I say it, but it’s true: Raising venture capital is -much- easier than recruiting employees or selling customers.
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Problem: VCs know that scoring VC money is easy. Selling customers is hard. Selling employees to come work for you is hard too. Selling in general is hard.
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Larry Chiang (@LarryChiang) |
7hr “Pop Up Internship” where cs kids promo Uber, as a user, doing $20 referrals. $20 #Lead hen. Then @prmarca funds u duck9.com/blog/stanford-…
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Let me “sell” you the idea of getting this skill via a 7 hr “Pop Up Internship”. The mechanism of this semi entrepreneurship practice is to do a “pop up internship”
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Larry Chiang (@LarryChiang) |
“pop up internships” revenue cs majorduck9.com/blog/uncategor…
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This tweet reaches high!
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Larry Chiang (@LarryChiang) |
I am DJ-ing a @sgblank blog post to a @prmarca tweet. Y?! Cuz teaching a cs kid to sell is #hiLarryAss Ly FUN duck9.com/blog/internshi…
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You see Mr Marc is imploring you YC “potentials” to learn to sell (do things that don’t scale BUT HAVE MOMENTUM is sales driven. Yup, PG #dttdsBHM https://bit.ly/pgrahamCh6)
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Larry Chiang (@LarryChiang) |
The 1993 CS major @prmarca encourages you CS students to pre-promote. To get sales revenue. #ENGR145 #CSmajorCRO gigaom.com/2011/02/19/lau…
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Another 7hr “Pop Up Internship” is to promote an afterparty at Moscone convention center
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Larry Chiang (@LarryChiang) |
650-283-8008 is me |
Lack of sales, hurts!
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Larry Chiang (@LarryChiang) |
.@pmarca meet “Steve”
bit.ly/sblank711 (part 1) bit.ly/sblank712 (part 2) bit.ly/sblank713 (part 3 is Startup Death Spiral |
Startup death from lack of sales kicked off this Steve Blank series
https://bit.ly/sblank710
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Larry Chiang (@LarryChiang) |
Part IV (4) is about hoping the CS major founder can learn sales on-the-fly, at the from lines, while taking on fire duck9.com/blog/uncategor…
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I hope my having written part IV helped u!!!
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Larry Chiang (@LarryChiang) |
Cupcake #LeadGen works so well that TC banned it’s use at #TCdisrupt May4-6 gigaom.com/2011/02/19/lau…
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Another 7hr “Pop Up Internship” in NYC may 4-6 would be to do an after, AfterParty.

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Larry Chiang (@LarryChiang) |
CS students. I know @JohnChinaSVB won’t be mad you’re doing their #svbSXSW #AfterParty in #SXSWi2016 gigaom.com/2011/02/19/lau…
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Please be nice and consider depositing your revenue in an SVB account.

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Larry Chiang (@LarryChiang) |
“Does this give you confidence to ask girls out?”
#CSmajorCRO |
Ask Nick Austin Lee what it’s like to be the first CS Major CRO!

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