{"id":12547,"date":"2019-11-29T08:30:50","date_gmt":"2019-11-29T16:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/?p=12547"},"modified":"2019-12-01T12:39:59","modified_gmt":"2019-12-01T16:39:59","slug":"the-problem-with-stanford-engineering-startups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/the-problem-with-stanford-engineering-startups\/","title":{"rendered":"The Problem With Stanford Engineering Startups"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By Larry Chiang<\/div>\n
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Problem: if you\u2019re at Stanford engineering, your tough spot is not product it\u2019s sales and distribution of that product. <\/div>\n

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PROBLEM: Incredibly tough to find founders who are strong at both product and distribution.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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<\/span><\/td>\nJeff Morris Jr. (@jmj<\/a>)<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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11\/26\/19, 8:59 AM<\/font><\/a><\/div>\n
Incredibly tough to find founders who are strong at both product and distribution.<\/p>\n

Left brain: distribution
\nRight brain: product<\/p>\n

Most often, I see great product minds who do not understand distribution. <\/p>\n

This generally catches up with them as they raise their Series A.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n


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\nSOLUTION: Learn distribution. <\/span><\/div>\n


\nProblem: the Distribution class was skipped at Stanford.  
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<\/td>\nLarry Chiang @duck9 (@LarryChiang<\/a>)<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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11\/26\/19, 10:17 AM<\/a><\/div>\n
\u2066\u202a<\/a>(who will teach #cs183d<\/a>, [distribution])\u201d<\/p>\n

Sam Altman
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<\/a>\u2066\u202a@StanfordEng\u202c\u2069<\/a> #cs183<\/a> Startup
\n#cs183b<\/a> HTSAS 👇🏻
\n#cs183c<\/a> Blitzscaling a Startup
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\n#cs183e<\/a>, Editing a startup pic.twitter.com\/WP7QpUxLdn<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n

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Distribution. 
\n<\/span>\u2066\u202a<\/a><\/span>(who will teach <\/span>#cs183d<\/a><\/span>, [distribution])<\/p>\n

Sam Altman 
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Solution: there is a YouTube playlist called #cs183d<\/span><\/div>\n

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This sounds like a job for DatMan. Also known as Bruce Wang. DAT Distribution and <\/span><\/div>\n
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By Larry Chiang Problem: if you\u2019re at Stanford engineering, your tough spot is not product it\u2019s sales and distribution of that product.  PROBLEM: Incredibly tough to find founders who are strong at both product and distribution. Jeff Morris Jr. (@jmj) 11\/26\/19, 8:59 AM Incredibly tough to find founders who are strong at both product and […]<\/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-12547","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\/12547","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=12547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}