By Larry Chiang
Before me, YC startups just went BELLY up 50% of the time
Not, LOL
Check the startup for any signs of #GuaGuaGuacamole
Let’s avoid death.
So, I know 2 co-founders have left you for grad school. Lets perform the Cha-Chiang Maneuver. Previously known as #GuaGuaGuacamole. Previous to #GuaGuaGuacamole, it was known as the 13 Signature Business Recipes from 1983 inside my mentor’s, Mark McCormack’s book “What They Don’t Teach YOU at Harvard Business School”
Pick 2 of 13 #GuaGuaGuacamole signature business recipes and lets effen get your startup off of the “PG dead pool watch” list.
ENGR145’s about avoiding premature startup death, avoiding BK, ducking Assignment Benefit of Creditors by “Crossing The Chasm From The Right”
Professor Tom Kosnik would know. He was a marine before he became an HBS professor https://twitter.com/tjKosnik
I took this selfie, no-self
This selfie, I did not take
LARRY Chiang
CEO of Duck9
Stanford University’s Founding EIR (Entrepreneur in Residence)
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Founder of “What They Don’t Teach at Business School” for CNN iReport: https://ireport.cnn.com/people/larrychiang
Author, NY Times Bestseller
“What They Will NEVER Teach You at Stanford Business School about EUTWMPPM @SXSW” comes out 11-11-14
Emergency swings and cutting deals as an 9 year old