{"id":11779,"date":"2018-02-20T13:35:02","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T17:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/?p=11779"},"modified":"2018-03-02T19:33:32","modified_gmt":"2018-03-02T23:33:32","slug":"donuts-move-the-needle-for-stanford-engineers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/donuts-move-the-needle-for-stanford-engineers\/","title":{"rendered":"Donuts Move the Needle for Stanford Engineers"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By Larry Chiang<\/div>\n
Here to expose a basic truth: Few care about your innovation that\u2019s technological.<\/div>\n
I place Elon Musk as a Top 200 tech founder under 200 yo. But, even being ranked number one<\/i><\/b> we still need to get people to care.<\/div>\n
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2\/1\/18, 6:49 AM<\/font><\/a><\/div>\n
People not answering your email in the office?<\/p>\n
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@here<\/a>\u00a0in the\u00a0#general<\/a>\u00a0channel in Slack and announce there’s leftover doughnuts by your desk.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Problem: Few cared about innovation in marketing communication as it relates to delivery services for food like postmates.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n

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Solution: Deliver donuts along with your resume. Video credit Channel 7, ABC NEWS San Francisco, California.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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2\/2\/18, 9:26 AM<\/font><\/a><\/div>\n
@iamdevloper<\/a>\u00a0@here<\/a>\u00a0The dotted line – – – = email.<\/p>\n
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The solid line = donut.Because I discovered dinosaurs and fossils care about timely delivery of Mon morning donuts. They cared little for my\u00a0#chemEng297<\/a>\u00a0or\/and slew of engineering awards for heat transfer. Thus,\u00a0#cs183donut<\/a>\u00a0like me and Elon Musk!\u00a0pic.twitter.com\/RiQXBGDu3x<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\nProblem: Few cared about innovative water treatment chemical even when a chemE salesperson was mentoring them.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n


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Solution: Deliver donuts.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n

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2\/2\/18, 9:42 AM<\/font><\/a><\/div>\n
Elon Musk took this protocol to new heights (#sextupleEntendre<\/a>, intended). He hands out donuts to people in our mall waiting to hand money in for a car<\/p>\n
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Learn\u00a0#cs183donut<\/a>\u00a0twitter.com\/iamdevloper\/st\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Tesla passing out donuts at the\u00a0#Model3<\/a>\u00a0line in Seattle. Yum!\u00a0pic.twitter.com\/RyxXkrK79h<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
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2\/20\/18, 9:20 AM<\/a><\/div>\n
\u00a0Elon Musk is smart about his usage of donuts. [photo credit Karen Moskowitz]<\/p>\n
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When you\u2019re selling something INNOVATIVE, it\u2019s helpful to utilize a donut via Elon Musk and #LarryChiang<\/a>\u2019s signature business recipe, #cs183donut<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/C2f6wavDYu<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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By Larry Chiang Here to expose a basic truth: Few care about your innovation that\u2019s technological. I place Elon Musk as a Top 200 tech founder under 200 yo. But, even being ranked number one we still need to get people to care. I Am Devloper (@iamdevloper) 2\/1\/18, 6:49 AM People not answering your email […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stanford-engineering","category-stanford-entrepreneurship"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11779\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}