By Larry Chiang
Champaign, ILLINOIS was incredibly formative. There is entrepreneurship everywhere.
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There is a depth to how much a public college s-u-c-k-s, that a STANFORD student might never fathom
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Pre-entrepreneurs initially solve problems around them. You name the Silicon Valley, celeb founder and I can regurgitate their pre-preneur “project”/aka ‘mini company concept’ de la Larry Chiang. Also, pattern recognized as Larry Chiang Mini Company Concept, #LCMCC. Pattern replicate the legendary Silicon Valley founders by pattern iterating the #LCMCC
THIS IS THE MONEY. I had time to do a subroutine for money:
#EUBM.
7 questions to access BUSINESS MODEL MECHANICS


My signature business protocol, “#EUBM” is 1) problem, 2) Revenue stream & 3) channel.

Applies at Stanford because we are a little too nurturing.

Urbana had a fire of burning bull crap that boiled down (engineering pun intended) core efficiencies and specific paths of convoluted models. So understanding the above Alex Osterwalder “business modeling” was easy
Focus on these boxes

FTC disclosure: As ex-EIR of #StanfordEweek, I co-founded #UTeWeek

Amanda Barrington, officer at UT eWeek. Dedicated because she gave up her spring break at University of Texas to do entrepreneurship work at SXSW