By Larry Chiang
My favorite on-going entrepreneurship story is Craig’sList

2011. At the sxsw Angel List party co-hosted by Silverton Partners and featuring Craig Newmark
Paul Graham featured Craig in PG’s best startup advice keynote
So, let us, me and you, do a pop up internship. It’s where we as engineers practice. It is where CS majors and me build distribution skills, communication skills all under the engineering skill subroutine: #DTTDSBHM
Do
Things
That
Don’t
Scale
BUT
Have
MOMENTUM (DTTDSBHM — u see what I did there? I made a subroutine to get you to build your GitHub resume by doing the toughest work: “Distribution”
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Alice Truong (@alicetruong) |
One of @Airbnb‘s best pieces of advice came from @paulg: “It’s OK to do things that don’t scale.” live.fastcompany.com/Event/Airbnb_O… #openair
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Down for more #DTTDSBHM ?!
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Renate Nyborg (@renate) |
AirBnB cofounder: “We ended 16 months of failure by doing things that don’t scale. Went door to door, met 100 super users & built for them.”
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HN is “Hacker News”
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HN from Y Combinator (@hnycombinator) |
Do Things That Don’t Scale: An Uncover Example dnlchw.net/HwtDEz (cmts dnlchw.net/1bK0pux)
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DTTDSBHM
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Nelly Yusupova (@DigitalWoman) |
Do Things that Don’t Scale by @paulg bit.ly/16pJitE <-great article on getting early users/customers #leanstartup #startup
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Impress Brian Park, Jason Fried and PG and me by executing DTTDSBHM as your pop up internship #3
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Brian Park (@brianbpark) |
Jason Fried’s commentary on “Why we’re doing things that don’t scale” ow.ly/njnbp
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Meet me and Hiten at Table50 at Evvia (after you DTTDSBHM )
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Hiten Shah (@hnshah) |
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Andy Smith (@kabbenbock) |
Who am I, Larry Chiang.
I’m the guy who thinks you should get
– 3 legendary internships*
– one study abroad
– 5 pop up internships*
– maybe co-term
* ONE OF THE INTERNSHIPS AS CS MAJOR SHOULD BE DOING STRAIT SALES (also known as distribution). Selling as a CS major is like a Jedi in Business Admin ( See #csMajorCEO #CSmajorCRO)
Tweeting one tweet and drinking a Fanta at evvia 1:50TUES = Pop Up Internship #3. The one tweet needs to be “@larrychiang”. The Tues Evvia at 1:50 pm needs to confirmed three hour prior via a text message to my cell. I am CEO of Duck9.
