I’m R2D2-ing a Demo Day Like a Virgin

By Larry Chiang

I crash demo days.

They fill me with white entrepreneurial light. Why?! They’re females and males on the cusp of an inflection point in life.

I simultaneously get a half chubb and almost cry when young humans make the tranie (transition) from random homo sapiens to legendary entrepreneur rock star of technology.

This past week, I was in Austin, Texas for Capital Factory. It’s a business incubator and accelerator on the top floor of a really nice building (the Omni Hotel). Anyway, I’m known for doubling the value of a man entering entrepreneurship. I’m also known for blogging as a woman named Larry Chiang. Google “Larry Chiang women”.

My ‘secret sauce’ is 13 entrepreneur recipes my mentor taught me: Gua Gua Guacamole. Using 2-5 recipes doubles your shareholder equity without a nickel of venture capital (VC) money. This knowledge of specific recipes (or pattern recognition, pattern replication, pattern iteration) is based on a 1983 book by my mentor: Mark McCormack. He wrote the NY Times bestseller, “What They Don’t Teach You at Harvard Business School”

I just R2D2 his stuff. Seriously, I got to teach for three years at the best school for business education (Stanford Engineering) because I R2D2 copy pasted his stuff.

So busting my cherry here in Austin Texas, I will recommend to Austin Startups what my mentor, Mark McCormack, would recommend you do (if he had time for you away from running IMG, the largest talent agency and IF he were alive which he is NOT)… So, I’m going to do my best to R2D2 those “business recipes from 1983″… Err, Gua Gua Guacamole business recipes :-)))

Mmmk?!?!

Unofficial Austin (@UnofficialATX) 10/11/12 10:01 AM I uploaded a @YouTube video youtu.be/HAImMvyuUgw?a from Capital Factory Demo Day #dd12

Matt, Founder of StormPulse @ CapitalFactory Demo Day #dd12

Gua Gua Guacamole patterns to replicate: “Speak at Conferences You’re Barely Invited To”

Gua Gua Guacamole pattern to replicate: Do a power point preso and load it up on Slideshare “How to Do What StormPulse Does Without Having to Hire StormPulse”

*********** Disclosure: Slideshare provides me with a free PRO account, but I’d pay the $250/month if it weren’t given to me for free ************

John / Founder / VisibleHealth @ CapitalFactory Demo Day #dd12

Gua Gua Guacamole patterns to replicate: Get celeb testimonials

David Johnson, Founder of LDEngine @ CapitalFactory Demo Day #dd12

Gua Gua Guacamole pattern iterate:

Let me Google that for you Let me rapportive that for you Let me LDEngine that for you

Founder of SmartPicture @ CapitalFactory Demo Day #dd12

Crash speak at a hardware show or architect show. Take $20 bills and sell your app

Nate Stewart, Founder of ZingCheckout @ CapitalFactory Demo Day #dd12 Gua Gua Guacamole patterns to replicate: Host an AfterParty at National Retailer Convention at McCormick Place in Chicago and get about $2mm in sales. Pussy.

If it works 1/10 ass good as advertised, you’re like StormTracker— RICH.

Andrew Eye, Founder of TaskBox @ CapitalFactory Demo Day #dd12 Crash AppNation. Get 500 downloads. Hand out slices of pizza (or charge 5.00) per down load

Gua Gua Guacamole pattern replicate: LeadGen for slices of pizza. AppNation is Nov 7-8 in sf

********** Disclosure: I financially benefit if you attend AppNation. I don’t exactly know how I benefit but I bet I do ************

Richard, Founder of SubtleData @ CapitalFactory Demo Day #dd12 Gua Gua Guacamole pattern replicate: Host an AfterParty for Developers to Use your Payments API Connector

Erica Douglass, Founder of Whoosh Traffic, @ CapitalFactory Demo Day #dd12 Erica is already a Gua Gua Guacamole practitioner (even though she is an unconscious competent) Erica pattern replicated: “Start a sequel business.” MVBP: minimum viable blog posts (although Erica’s posts are thorough, the idea of MVBP is to get all y’all to blog to promo your business.

Bryan Menell does this too. Bryan Menell, founder of SubtleData, also hosts parties to promote SubtleData)

Raymond McGlamery, founder of VivoGig, CapitalFactory Demo Day #dd12

Gua Gua Guacamole patterns to replicate: ?

Garrett Eastham, founder of Compare Metrics, CapitalFactory Demo Day #dd12 Gua Gua Guacamole patterns to replicate: ?

Joel Korpi, founder of Rockify, CapitalFactory Demo Day #dd12 Gua Gua Guacamole patterns to replicate: Crasher to VIP Crash a Music Executives CONF Called Grammies and Be a VIP

Gua Gua Guacamole patterns to replicate: Host an AfterParty for Oscars/Ticketmaster Exec Retreat/

Bart Bohn, founder of AuManil, CapitalFactory Demo Day #dd12 Gua Gua Guacamole patterns to replicate: “Create a waitlist”

Gua Gua Guacamole patterns to replicate: How to do what AuManil Does Without Having to Hire AuManil

Jim Donnelly, founder of Kin Valley, CapitalFactory Demo Day #dd12 Gua Gua Guacamole patterns to replicate: ‘Sales Booth at a CoppaCompliant Awareness CONF’ “Doing an LCMCC”

ENGR145’s Anchor Concept: Lemonade and Gua Gua Guacamole

It moves you to the right on the entrepreneur bell curve

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