{"id":1324,"date":"2013-03-13T14:48:27","date_gmt":"2013-03-13T18:48:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/?p=1324"},"modified":"2013-03-13T14:48:27","modified_gmt":"2013-03-13T18:48:27","slug":"secrets-to-being-an-accidental-entrepreneur-with-purpose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/secrets-to-being-an-accidental-entrepreneur-with-purpose\/","title":{"rendered":"Secrets to Being an Accidental Entrepreneur with Purpose"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Larry Chiang<\/strong><\/p>\n

Planning to be a future “accidental entrepreneur” is smart. Lets set an intention to purposefully become an accidental entrepreneur with little or no downside risk.<\/p>\n

Look, I am a man from China. By nature of being an ABC (American Born Chinese) in America, I am incredibly risk adverse. My family is risk avoiding to the max. Yet me family is incredibly entrepreneurial. In American schools, students are taught, “roll the dice when youre young and chase your passions and desires”. That’s wrong.<\/p>\n

VCs tell us “fail while you’re young and take massive risks building something new”. This view is silly. Hey, I studied engineering. Think I am going to give up a six figure job in a Fortune 100?! Nope! Don’t listen to VCs that need for you to take a risk. Listen to me when I tell you risk can be<\/p>\n

– Risk Mitigated
– Risk Minimized
-Risk Eliminated<\/p>\n

My effort to mentor my students on risk even has a hashtag. Even the bestselling author, Geoffrey Moore wants you to take on more risk. His new book, Escape Velocity, is a genius sequel to “Crossing the Chasm” but it stops before the punchline. The summary of his entrepreneur’s dilemma of bridging the should be to say “crossing chasm from the right”<\/p>\n

Accidental entrepreneur of-the-future, purposefully prepare
– Promote or sell something that is in the early majority\/ pragmatists
– Practice EUBM
– Start and Stop a Startupie, Lemonade Stand, Baby Business like Lisa Falzone, Stanford athlete CEO @Stanford Entrepreneurship<\/a> Week
– Participate in a Startup Hour. Its like a startup weekend but only in Houston. And only for one hour
– Blog using the MVBP system (a minimum viable blog post and 12 sentences, two pictures and one focus
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