Larry Chiang’s 5th book, What They Don’t Teach You At Stanford Business School, launched after a Harvard Law School keynote on the New York Fashion Week runway 09-09-2009. He knows how to sniff out grand openings and crashed them with his dog Baxter. As CEO of Duck9, he spearheads to effort to get college consumers get a FICO over 750. Post H.L.S. keynote, Harvard Business wrote: “What They Don’t Teach You at Stanford Business School” (his last Austin themed post was done #shirtless in “Larry Chiang Sets an intention for SXSW“.
NY Fashion Week has supermodels getting a high FICO credit score because I supermodel on-the-side |
By Larry Chiang, co-founder #UTeWeek
I wanted to call this post “How to go from Crasher to VIP. And speak at a conference you’re crashing”. But that signature business recipe is not very popular 😉
Let us start with an examination of how one of Palo Alto Community’s College’s students did it.
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Ok, @BobMetcalfe. I’ll guest lec a seminar on crashing. I’ll honor my cohort mentor “Dan Ha, CS Pac-12, bc he passed away and intro’d me to u
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You see, I was at MIT doing a lecture and thought, “Lol, I’m bringing a rando coterm to MIT so that he can take over part of my lecture. I mean do u really wanna listen to me drone on for an hour?!” (Btw thx Douglas Huang Douglas Hwang, MBA president). Anyway, I thought Dan Ha could go to boston with me to
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Larry Chiang (@LarryChiang) |
Last night I hung out with @BobMetcalfe, #LonghornDemoDay. I met him as a direct result of Dan Ha, @StartX co-founder (#RIP @iamdanHa 0:-)
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So then this happened!!

My Tim Draper moment was when he said, “You must love this, you’re everywhere
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Larry Chiang (@LarryChiang) |
Ok, @BobMetcalfe. I’ll guest lec a seminar on crashing. I’ll honor my cohort mentor “Dan Ha, CS Pac-12, bc he passed away and intro’d me …
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At #vc65, I met keynote speaker “@BobMetcalfe“. Bc StartX’s Dan Ha crashed me in (#ENGR145 alum) twitter.com/iamdanHa #cs178/#cs378
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I am seriously serious.


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Larry Chiang (@LarryChiang) |
What I meant @BobMetcalfe was that @UTLEA‘s Director should get a Less than min Viable twitter account (#LTMVTA. Good seeing u @FSAustin
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– Set up a base camp using email to announce yourself
See Dan Ha’s above point.
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Larry Chiang (@LarryChiang) |
Bob @BobMetcalfe and Michael Dell. Follow the live tweets by @JoshuaBaer #LonghornDemoDay pic.twitter.com/A7Mb9Nres1
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Set up a base camp using WORDPRESS to announce your RSVP. Blogging is hands down, the best. See StartX’s blog. Never let Silicon Valley intimidate you. Blogging a “less than minimum viable blog post” is my signature PRE crash maneuver. “less than minimum viable blog post” is so popular, I’ve a hashtag that reveals the best stuff I curate #LTMVBP
— Larry Chiang

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Larry Chiang (@LarryChiang) |
At 9:42pm at #LonghornDemoDay #30apr2015, @BobMetcalfe said to ‘Courtney’, “I can’t stop you” Re crashing #cs178
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Larry Chiang (@LarryChiang) |
Let’s hope Courtney locked in that verbal deal to attend /audit cs 178 with a follow up email (that cc’s me!) Re #cs178
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