By Larry Chiang
I wanted to call this article, “Worst Vice is Free Advice, Solved“. This theme delves into a passion topic of mine: Mentorship. Stanford engineering mentorship seeks to solve the problem of startup advice. Silicon Valley’s worst vice: Free Stanford engineering’s YouTube advice on entrepreneurship.
I’m talking about…
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Hiten Shah (@hnshah) |
Today @firstround review published an article about my advice on advice!
firstround.com/review/advice-… Thank you @shaunyou @camillericketts 🚀 |
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Larry Chiang (@LarryChiang) |
This is like if Tony Robbins had a CS degree. And texted u. twitter.com/hnshah/status/…
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Tony Robbins is verrrry gifted. But he doesn’t have a CS degree. And he doesn’t have a VC Rolodex like ours. So, let’s go deeper into why mentorship:
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Larry Chiang (@LarryChiang) |
You do not mentor for the sake of the mentee,
You coach for the sake of your own mindsee. #ch5 twitter.com/hnshah/status/… |
In short, mentoring and coaching helps us to be better mentees. Ev Williams likes Tony Robbins too. Tony wrote Unlimited Power.
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Larry Chiang (@LarryChiang) |
Reframe(p289), context, action (p47). Precursored by persuasion (p385). [Tony Robbins –Unlimited Power] twitter.com/hnshah/status/…
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To repeat, Unlimited Power
Page 289; Reframe(p289), context, action (p47). Precursored by persuasion (p385). All from the Hiten Shah article at firstround.com
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Shaun Young (@shaunyou) |
Good advice tips people toward action, not options. You may think all you need is advice. Practice is what you need. firstround.com/review/advice-…
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Stanford engineering has a 3 class series inside the CS program on Startup, Entrepreneurship, Advice:
Stanford engineering cs183,
Stanford Engr, #cs183b,
Stanford Engineering – #CS183c
Peter Thiel, Sam Altman, Reid Hoffman.
Advice from VCs
#versus
Practice with founders:
#versus
Practice with founders:
And #CS183do.
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Larry Chiang (@LarryChiang) |
.@hnshah I’m selling a wordpress blog post about this Re worst vice is free Advice, solved PayPal.me/LarryChiang/920 pic.twitter.com/pJ7iYh3pR5
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This is that $920.00 article. This the article you just read was USD$920 –You’re welcome.
Net, net practice and do something
In short, take the advice and pop your cherry de la revenue.
I’m selling these videos for $35,000 each…