Larry Chiang’s book, What They Don’t Teach You At Stanford Business School, has an entire chapter devoted to “Entrepreneurship #Ch9 and Sales via Lead Generation #CH6”. As CEO of Duck9, he helps institutions make credit receivables less risky and plays the other side to by getting college students a “FICO” credit score over “748.8”. After a Harvard Law School keynote, Harvard Business wrote: “What They Don’t Teach You at Stanford Business School”
NY Fashion Week has supermodels getting a high FICO credit score because I supermodel on-the-side |
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Jose Vieitez (@JoseVieitez) |
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Start With a Cupcake: The Minimum Viable Product of Baking and Ideas: buff.ly/1FZiuT2 #entrepreneur #startups pic.twitter.com/YebzwmjEZ6
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Lead generation is giving away a piece of food in exchange for a sales prospect giving you their phone number. It works super well when you use “cupcakes”.

Cupcakes are the minimum viable product of the baking industry
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Larry Chiang (@LarryChiang) |
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Interesting. Bc the cupcake is also at the heart of #TCDisrupt lead generation {#leadGen} twitter.com/josevieitez/st…
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– doing lowest common denominator stuff to get the public to care about “FICO score preparation, amongst sorority girls, while on spring break, and super horny”
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Larry Chiang (@LarryChiang) |
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Cupcake #LeadGen works so well that TC banned it’s use at #TCdisrupt May4-6 gigaom.com/2011/02/19/lau…
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Mint won TC40. It used cupcakes
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Larry Chiang (@LarryChiang) |
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If there’s a startup hacking this conference #disruptSF @tcdisrupt, deliver me a cupcake #please #guacamole google.com/search?q=larry…
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Just because TC disrupt won’t let you win using cupcakes, does not mean you should not use cupcakes to win (in the real world outside of the “Manhattan Center”
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Larry Chiang (@LarryChiang) |
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Larry Chiang (@LarryChiang) |
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Scott Beale’s cupcake camp looks yum https://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/1295713/
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Bryan Menell (@bmenell) |
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My penguin cupcake. (cc @plancast) https://yfrog.com/h8b8shlj
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Jacqueline Hughes (@JacquelinesLife) |
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Hehe. @plancast + cupcakes = #plancakes! Thanks @justthisguy for the hashtag suggestion. If you want a cupcake… https://bit.ly/f3kEuJ
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