Networking Via Reading, And Then Mind Melding

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 latest post was done #shirtless as a yogi who “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

Networking helps. I mind-meld with Silicon Valley VIPs because I read a lot. For example, my “5th Epiphany” was based on five books’ sequel. I read five books before their corresponding authors networking parties. Also known as ‘book signings’. Then, I extrapolated all 5 authors seminal tomes into one-blog-post: The Fifth Epiphany.

The “Fifth Epiphany” wasn’t an overnight HBS success (Harvard Business School press https://bit.ly/vc0311b). It took me 20,000 hours of parties where I partied

	Larry Chiang (@LarryChiang)
5/1/09, 5:02 PM #startup2startup w/Steve Blank’s book https://ff.im/2vNtV

From April 28 to May 1, I studied and took notes

	Larry Chiang (@LarryChiang)
4/28/09, 8:21 AM Larry Startup2Startup.com will be cool this week with “4 Steps to An Epiphany” author speaking :-). https://ff.im/2qi0t

Ditto Dave McClure

	Larry Chiang (@LarryChiang)
8/20/08, 6:56 AM @davemc500hats has a great event https://Startup2Startup.com/ even though it conflicts head-to-head with my asse9 event

	Dave McClure (@davemcclure)
8/19/08, 7:44 AM STARTonomics (10/2 SF) sessions & speakers: https://startonomics.com/sessions/ https://startonomics.com/speakers/

literally, ditto

https://www.duck9.com/iMedia.htm

	Unofficial Austin (@UnofficialATX)
4/25/15, 8:47 PM .@LarryChiang #startup2startup 2009 Who pre-reads before a Silicon Valley networking event!? You do. pic.twitter.com/mSk3qbFCqT