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Larry Chiang teaches at a school that he could not get into and wrote a sequel to a book he read and re-read<\/a> one time too many. He edits the Bloomberg BusinessWeek channel \u201cWhat They Don\u2019t Teach You at Business School\u201d. After speaking at a school in the Boston area, Harvard Business wrote: \u201cWhat They Don\u2019t Teach You at Stanford Business School<\/a>\u201c (the same title as his NY Times bestseller). He launched his book at a fashion show in NY called Mercedes Benz Fashion Week and wrote, \u201cWhat a Supermodel Can Teach a Stanford MBA<\/a>\u201d. If you liked “9 VCs You’re Gonna Want to Avoid<\/a>” and \u201cHow to Get Man-Charm<\/a>\u201d, you will like his latest post:<\/p>\n

How to Get a Law Passed To Kill Your Competition Dead for Under $20k<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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By Larry Chiang<\/a><\/p>\n

PALO ALTO \u2014 CALIFORNIA<\/p>\n

Newsflash: I am an incredibly cut-throat business person to big-jerk business. This first appeared on my Duck9 blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I wanted to call this article, ‘How to Get a Law Passed for $217’ but I thought it was a little too obnoxious (even though its true)<\/p>\n

As a man from China, my people get a lot done for very little money… How did I get the CARD Act passed for less than the cost of two oil changes?? Here is exactly how I engineered this:<\/p>\n

1) Blog.<\/p>\n

I do something that almost no credit industry executives does. I blog. By industry exec, I qualify it by saying \u201csurpass the $100mm revenue mark”.<\/p>\n

Every time I say this, people say \u201cmint dot com\u201d<\/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\u2019re 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