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<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\nBy Larry Chiang<\/a><\/p>\n PALO ALTO — CALIFORNIA <\/p>\n Newsflash: I am Chinese.<\/p>\n As a man from China (vis a via New York), I am known by my fellow yellow brothers as THE chinaman. Chinese people get a lot done for very little money. As I tried to stay true to my heritage that includes railroad workers, I get a lot done with very, very little.<\/p>\n My critics claim it was my supermodel good looks or my 6′ 5″, 222 lb stature. Maybe,… but I pile on fundamental Chinaman skillz with dirty, dirty street smarts and a dash of hustle.<\/p>\n You see, I am a bit of an expert at that because I launched a book from the supermodel runway*<\/p>\n I also coached entrepreneurs to launch at the most intensely competitive tech conference (sxsw) for less than 1k. Google “How to Launch at SxSW”.<\/p>\n Enough preamble…, I got the CARD Act passed for $217.\u00a0 It\u00a0 is the credit card CARD Act that even has a page and a half specifically referring to the Duck9 business model. It put every competitor of Duck9 and United College Marketing Services under and out of business. Legendary.<\/p>\n How did I get the CARD Act passed for less than the cost of two oil changes??<\/p>\n (Nope, it is NOT on Quora<\/a> biatches. Yes I waited two years because I didn’t believe it and thought there would be fall-out)<\/p>\n Here is exactly how I engineered this law getting passed for $217:<\/p>\n 1) Blog.<\/p>\n I do something that no other credit industry executive does. I blog. By industry exec, I qualify it by saying “surpass the $100mm revenue mark.<\/p>\n Every time I say this, people say “mint dot com”<\/p>\n Well, last time I checked, Mint has well south of $1mm revenue. Total<\/p>\n 2) I blogged some more.<\/p>\n You can go on and write credit policy position papers and create white papers until you’re blue in the face but there is one source of information: Google. Google loves blogs.<\/p>\n I even wrote a book on credit: Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Personal Intellectual Property. Zero effect. But blogging works<\/p>\n I also blog at GigaOm, TechCrunch, VentureBeat. And BusinessWeek.<\/p>\n 3) I kissed a lot of ASS<\/p>\n 4) I Sprinkled Mentorship Into the Lobbying Process <\/p>\n 5) We did a lot of media.<\/p>\n Media loves a supermodel that talks good. Me talk pretty on the TEE VEE here here here and here<\/a>.<\/p>\n 6) Align and Find a Parade Versus Starting One<\/p>\n My mentor talked about the perils of fighting city hall. I listened.<\/p>\n As founder of the largest company that sold credit cards to college students, I could have easily allocated resources to preserve the old rules. We were already winning at the old rules and I wanted to make sure we kept winning. The ‘parade’ of anti-credit card sentiment was rising. Plus, I was having to choke down the lies that the banks were telling people Re: junk fee justification.<\/p>\n The parade was going and we decided to lead.<\/p>\n 7) Mimic Jesus and Make the Devil Jealous<\/p>\n Jesus did the whole servant leader thing pretty well.<\/p>\n I offered to be the assistant to anyone who was willing to listen. Our government affairs<\/a> push was aggressive. The data pointed towards simple conclusions that credit card debt was causing college students to have to work more and sometimes drop out<\/a>.<\/p>\n -8- Take a Page Out of “Bartle’s and James”<\/p>\n Gallo wine saw wine cooler as a significant threat to wine sales. In reaction, it launched two retards named Bartle and James. They bought a bazillion ads. They marketed it as a separate company apart of the 3B gallo wine. They sold a ton of wine coolers.<\/p>\n We were UCMS and we started “duck9′ We changed it to Deep when everyone mis-spoke it. It has the double entendre of ducking 9. 9s are credit industry code for charge-offs. If you don’t know what a charge-off is, you’re not in the credit industry.<\/p>\n -9- Host AfterParties<\/p>\n You can host an afterparty for little or no money. Tactically, here is how<\/a>. AfterParties build your rolodex while giving your platform a chance to shine. I chinkied up a party at NCAA, Sundance, SXSW, TED.<\/p>\n I am not linking to them but if you google larry chiang (fill in blank with one of the above) afterparty, you will see the stuff I assembled.<\/p>\n My next trick will be to introduce a bill that has my name in it, “Larry Chiang Electronic Credit Score Protection Act”. But I don’t want to be dead or in Congress. I want to get this done as a private citizen.<\/p>\n True Story: The paper is mightier than the email<\/p>\n Experian Credit Bureau<\/strong> Equifax <\/strong>Credit Bureau<\/strong> TransUnion <\/strong>Credit Bureau<\/strong> I will even help you draft the letter.<\/p>\n Email me larry@ d u c k 9<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n wanna make me happy. What A Super Model Can Teach a Harvard MBA About Credit<\/a><\/strong> *** BONUS ***<\/p>\n a party invite for you…:<\/p>\n
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Duck9 is Digial Underground Credit Knowledge<\/p>\n
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