How Austin Can Get Home Field Advantage at Home

Larry Chiang pre-promotes live events months and months before they occur. With his 09-09-09 book release at New York Fashion Week, What They Don’t Teach You At Stanford Business School made a huge splash, made the NY Times bestseller list and returned invested capital before the launch. #WTDTYASBS’s distributed at Sundance and SXSW months and months before. As CEO of Duck9, Chaing prepares mentees with high FICO scores months and months before applying for a getting lines of credit. To know what he knows, read what Chaing read: “Ultimate Credit Handbook” and, “What They Don’t Teach You at Harvard Business School“.

New York Fashion Week is sooooooo fun!
— Larry Chiang

By Larry Chiang

This is going to sound oxymoronic but is genius in a way that I value. You want to seem like you’re the crasher of a party YOU are hosting.

Let me repeat, when you host a party, do not be the cliche host that is stressed about people having a good time. Be the carefree +1’s, plus one. This. Applies. To. Austin.

So many times, conferences are held in Austin as a destination. Austin, as a city is on fire and draws as a destination. Austin should lever the fact that industry’s have industry specific meetings.

Let us change gears and focus on an entrepreneurship class (CS 178, How to start a startup):

	Larry Chiang (@LarryChiang)
8/28/15, 8:04 AM There were portions in your lecture @JoshuaBaer that Silicon Valley kinda says, sorta whispers BUT IS CRITICAL Re starting company. #cs178

	Larry Chiang (@LarryChiang)
8/27/15, 9:08 PM Coincidence #1 @JoshuaBaer. We both reached break-even before we incorporated. #cs178

(I wrote about how to accept money. I blogged about how to take in revenue. I created a hashtag: #CSmajorCRO for this express purpose).

	Larry Chiang (@LarryChiang)
8/27/15, 9:07 PM Coincidence #2 @JoshuaBaer. We both did our company nomenclature off of our mentor’s company. #cs178

	Larry Chiang (@LarryChiang)
8/27/15, 6:28 PM @JoshuaBaer did a sequel company. Spin Out companies are genius.

	Larry Chiang (@LarryChiang)
8/27/15, 6:27 PM @JoshuaBaer‘s first company was a division of his mentors company.

	Larry Chiang (@LarryChiang)
8/28/15, 8:07 AM #CS178 @JoshuaBaer have you heard of the startup name game “three quarters baked” #3qb bit.ly/buster145123qb

Now, back to home field advantage at home.

	Larry Chiang (@LarryChiang)
8/28/15, 8:30 AM Last year, the industry conference you’re crashing had the same layout as this year (obvi) pic.twitter.com/f2kVxA4LLb pic.twitter.com/5ZXP5HuROw

You kinda wanna crash as a CS major undergrad.

	Larry Chiang (@LarryChiang)
10/16/13, 3:34 PM SpredFast Summit is #SFsummit. Go if you’re UT and #EUBM up an #LCMCC (@ Hyatt Regency Austin w/ 15 others) 4sq.com/15JoscJ

NAPBS is SEPT 20-22. It’s at the JW Marriott.

I hope you’re good at googling what NAPBS is because there is so much ancillary work to augment their effort. Email me to expand…

How Austin Can Get Home Field Advantage at Home

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