Larry Chiang’s 5th book, WTDTYASBS, launched at a Harvard Law School keynote, so he knows about grand openings (He even attends and promotes the ones he isn’t invited to also). As CEO of Duck9, he leads an army to help college student consumers get a FICO over 770. Post H.L.S. keynote, Harvard Business wrote: “What They Don’t Teach You at Stanford Business School” (his latest post: “Setting an intention for SXSWi“.
I go where the hawt girls text me to go. Here, I am sitting front row at NY Fashion Week. Tory Burch’s launch is A-M-A-Z-I-N-G |
By Larry Chiang

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The Alist party at #WestinNYE was a great opportunity for #SelfieNoSelf pics pic.twitter.com/qeCnLEU5ih
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Selfie no-self parallels a deep entrepreneur concept called ‘non employee co-founder’. Just like how I took this selfie…,



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9 new photos to the album ‘Westin NYE’ #westinNYE! facebook.com/photo.php?fbid…
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Who are welcome!?

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Good game kids.
#StanfordVsMaryland Tonight, I’m at @WestinStFr 2-2:14 for autographs Jk, come say hi #westinNYE |
It’s not just me that helped University of Maryland, Steve Blank did too https://bit.ly/sblank710b
Download Steve Blanks seminal blog post on failing to use “self funding”, failing to use ‘non employee co-founder’ It’s on avoiding failure
