Larry Chiang pre-promotes live events and pre-promotes FICO scores wayyyyyy before you need a loan. An example is 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 on the NY Times bestseller list because it was pre-promoted. #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“. The return of invested capital before-the-launch, applies to this article under the category, “Deep Underground Capital Knowledge”.
New York Fashion Week is less than 30 days away!! — Larry Chiang |
By Larry Chiang
Proprietorship.
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Larry Chiang (@LarryChiang) |
Proprietorship is a vehicle & legal structure Silicon Valley eschews, ignores and even scoffs at #SelfFundSellFun
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It’s when you file a “schedule C”. This PDF is tied to your social security number. You list out money in and money out. Meanwhile, everyone else in #ENGR145 is doing an internal meeting about the capital table, while their “total shareholder equity” is reading ‘ZERO’.
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Larry Chiang (@LarryChiang) |
Returning capital is critical when/if you self fund.
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First you take in $$, then later you pay back money you lent yourself.
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Larry Chiang (@LarryChiang) |
It’s an address.
#530Lytton‘s a subroutine. A subroutine is a 60 step recipe I cared enough to write out. 9:30am-? pic.twitter.com/aaF4NLzr71 |
#530Lytton‘s a subroutine to get you $15,000,000
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Larry Chiang (@LarryChiang) |
Get a TA or EIR to take notes @JoshuaBaer. Gold in them there lectures Or use a kid who sits First Chair Entrepreneur pic.twitter.com/dyfTHwlzd8
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Larry Chiang (@LarryChiang) |
If you’re selling stock under duress, you’re not fully understanding my mentors #ch2. Treasure management. No. Yard. Sales.
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Larry Chiang (@LarryChiang) |
A lot of founders buy back their stock at a huge discount.
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Larry Chiang (@LarryChiang) |
I judge you on whether you can fire a board member, that is a VC. Bonus if you let them save face!
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Larry Chiang (@LarryChiang) |
I judge you on whether you negotiated a clawback clause (so you can buy back stock in your own company) #VCsecrets.
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Larry Chiang (@LarryChiang) |
I judge you on how fast you return ‘invested capital’. #vcSecrets.
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Larry Chiang (@LarryChiang) |
“I had a credit card. $5,000 credit line. And I had my first customer. I was at break even.”
— @JoshuaBaer, lec 1 #cs178 |
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Larry Chiang (@LarryChiang) |
Coincidence #1 @JoshuaBaer. We both had mentors who were rich and semi-retired. #cs178
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