{"id":12767,"date":"2020-01-19T13:18:15","date_gmt":"2020-01-19T17:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/?p=12767"},"modified":"2020-01-19T20:18:33","modified_gmt":"2020-01-20T00:18:33","slug":"too-demoralized-and-hyper-intelligent-to-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/too-demoralized-and-hyper-intelligent-to-start\/","title":{"rendered":"Too Demoralized and Hyper Intelligent To Start"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By Larry Chiang<\/div>\n
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I grew up in a Yale MIT household that was too smart to start. <\/div>\n
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The recurring theme in Silicon Valley is \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I wanna go viral\u00e2\u20ac\u009d when I get myself into YC and get vc approval stamped. No one talks about the elephant-in-the-room: Lack Of distribution <\/div>\n
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Lack of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153doing things that don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t scale\u00e2\u20ac\u009d but have momentum <\/div>\n
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\nFull on wanting to outsource distribution to a <\/div>\n
– community manager<\/div>\n
– sales intern<\/div>\n
– business development, hire. <\/div>\n
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PROBLEM: saying \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcmillionaire\u00e2\u20ac\u2122<\/p>\n

You\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re riddled with societal pressure to fail prior to trying. Or not try!! Or other emo baggage. <\/p>\n

SOLUTION: say \u00e2\u20ac\u0153zero pt 6 mill\u00e2\u20ac\u009d so you think okay I just over shot my <\/span>#zeroPt6<\/a><\/span> million goal and now I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m at 1,000 thousands.<\/span><\/div>\n

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<\/span><\/td>\nLarry Chiang @duck9 (@LarryChiang<\/a>)<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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1\/19\/20, 11:50 AM<\/font><\/a><\/div>\n
PROBLEM: saying \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcmillionaire\u00e2\u20ac\u2122<\/p>\n

You\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re riddled with societal pressure to fail prior to trying. Or not try!! Or other emo baggage. <\/p>\n

SOLUTION: say \u00e2\u20ac\u0153zero pt 6 mill\u00e2\u20ac\u009d so you think okay I just over shot my #zeroPt6<\/a> million goal and now I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m at 1,000 thousands.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n


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\"image2.jpeg\"When you say \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcbillion\u00e2\u20ac\u2122, you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re too baggaged and saddled with emotion. When you say a thousand millions, you think okay I got 180. Just need 820 more<\/span><\/p>\n


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Or something like that<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
<\/td>\nLarry Chiang @duck9 (@LarryChiang<\/a>)<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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1\/19\/20, 11:39 AM<\/a><\/div>\n
Starting means trying to get customer number one on a product you did not make<\/p>\n

[or combining API\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s together]
\n#first17steps<\/a>
\n#djAPI<\/a>
\n#ENGR145<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/YotUmy0ZgM<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n

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https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ejeIz4EhoJ0<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n
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By Larry Chiang I grew up in a Yale MIT household that was too smart to start.  The recurring theme in Silicon Valley is \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I wanna go viral\u00e2\u20ac\u009d when I get myself into YC and get vc approval stamped. No one talks about the elephant-in-the-room: Lack Of distribution  Lack of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153doing things that don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t scale\u00e2\u20ac\u009d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stanford-entrepreneurship"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12767","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=12767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12767\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}