Preventing Premature Startup Death Syndrome

By Larry Chiang On June 25th, 2011, Tom Kosnik said to our class…, “Engr 145 Technology Entrepreneurship is meant to prevent premature startup death”. When I sat first chair entrepreneurship, I thought: – If these students are to be future CEOs and founders, aren’t they like lieutenants in West Point – what value could I add – how do I ebb and flow between alpha male and delta male – HOW DO I HELP TOM KOSNIK HELP – How do I help premature startup death – ENGR145’s Anchor Conceptual hashtags that all reduce or eliminate startup death Pay attention to – PRPRPI – RMRMRE and Entrepreneur Drills are done via Gua Gua Guacamole play-practice-drill recipes Malcolm Gladwell wrote of a sergeant that had no casualties while at the front lines in BLINK. Top Brass went and asked what his secret was. The sergeant said he did daily boot camp drills These drills – kept minds sharp – perfected basic drill camp drills – honed their practice so that they executed during pressure packed conflicts While I am no longer a drill sergeant…, perhaps you can text me “drill sergeant” and I’ll text you back something cool. Your call-to-action should you choose to act is 1-650-283-8008 CEO of Duck9 Stanford University Entrepreneur in Residence, Emeritus Duck9 = “Deep Underground Credit Knowledge” 9 125 University Avenue/ 100 Palo Alto CA 94301 https://www.duck9.com/ass 650-566-9600 650-566-9696 (direct) 650-283-8008 (cell) **************** Editor of the BusinessWeek Channel “What They Don’t Teach at Business School” https://whattheydontteachyouatstanfordbusinessschool.com/blog CNN Video Channel: https://ireport.cnn.com/people/larrychiang Read my last 10 tweets at https://www.Twitter.com/LarryChiang Author, NY Times Bestseller https://whattheydontteachyouatstanfordbusinessschool.com/blog/?s=Ny+times+bestseller “What They Will NEVER Teach You at Stanford Business School” comes out 11-11-14 https://www.fastcompany.com/embed/c0d4562ea2049 52 Cards. Two Jokers. What They DO Teach You at Stanford Engineering Emergency swings and cutting deals as an 9 year old ########## Duck9 is part of UCMS Inc. https://www.ucms.com 630-705-5555