{"id":12410,"date":"2019-11-05T13:48:16","date_gmt":"2019-11-05T17:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/?p=12410"},"modified":"2019-11-06T19:03:48","modified_gmt":"2019-11-06T23:03:48","slug":"selling-doughnuts-you-didnt-make-is-the-entrepreneurship-lesson-they-taught-you-at-stanford-engineering-since-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/selling-doughnuts-you-didnt-make-is-the-entrepreneurship-lesson-they-taught-you-at-stanford-engineering-since-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"Selling Something You Didn\u2019t Make Is THE Entrepreneurship Lesson They Taught You at Stanford Engineering Since 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">By Larry Chiang<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">I wanted to call this article, \u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Selling Doughnuts You Didn\u2019t Make Is Like \u2018Selling First And Then Making It\u2019 Like Paul Buchheit Said\u201d but it\u2019s problematic because students do not know the genius of&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">SELL IT FIRST BEFORE YOU CODE IT<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px\">In selling something first, you must initially identify a problem<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0)\"><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0)\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0)\">Problem.&nbsp;There have been no&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0)\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23KrispyKreme&#038;src=hash\">#KrispyKreme<\/a><\/span><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0)\">&nbsp;stores in Minnesota for 11 years<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: Helvetica\">&nbsp;as per Fox-11 TV<\/span><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: Helvetica\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: Helvetica\">SOLUTION = Jayson Gonzalez, college student, would drive five hundred plus miles to purchase Krispy Kreme in Iowa. &nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div><font face=\"Helvetica\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/font><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/image2.png\" alt=\"image2.png\" id=\"99343760-0790-429E-A3A6-214E60EE5AB5\">Jayson drives 230 miles to buy donuts that he resells\n<div>\n<div><font face=\"Helvetica\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/font><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0)\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0)\">&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0)\">#KryspyCream threatening legal action on a legal #ExternalAPI and then kow towing, olive branching and making a peace accord with the salesman is all you @stanfordEng need to understand about how stuff starts. #ENGR145<\/span><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/image3.jpeg\" alt=\"image3.jpeg\" id=\"1D46A37C-C49C-484F-BA53-29AF7044AEBA\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">As per Associated Press: <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><i>Krispy Kreme has told a college student in Minnesota to stop making doughnut runs to one of their Iowa stores and selling their product at a profit back home<\/i><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Selling donuts you buy is legal<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed\">This is #GuaGuaGuacamole Recipe #23&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">&gt;&gt; Krispy Kreme reaches sweet agreement with Minnesota college student to resell doughnuts <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">&#x1f369;<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">&nbsp; <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/i\/events\/1191736569746452482\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/i\/events\/1191736569746452482<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">This is #ExternalAPI <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">&#x1f440;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">This is the start of every founder of substance&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; 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