By Larry Chiang<\/p>\n
It is nice to meet you via my blog post!!<\/p>\n
I am guessing you currently go to engineering school. I will also go out on a limb and guess that either your professor or a classmate told you about me and this li’l blog post.<\/p>\n
Well, I humbly hope to live up to whatever you heard<\/em>! If this blog post sucks to you or if you don’t understand what I’m saying, call me (650-283-8008 cell. Text me 650-283-8008 or try my office 650-566-9600 or my direct line 650-566-9696) and I’ll try to work on my writing. Remember, I studied engineering and my brain is BUSTING OUT AT THE SEEMS.<\/p>\n You.<\/p>\n You are interested in entrepreneurship. You are interested in my method to “hack YC” and optimize https:\/\/whattheydontteachyouatstanfordbusinessschool.wordpress.com\/2012\/04\/13\/how-i-got-into-yc-42-times-and-y-combinators-startup-school-120-times\/<\/a> and reverse engineer Stanford University’s Startup School. Its Oct 19<\/a>.<\/p>\n #1 best technique I would do before Startup School:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n If I were you, the undergrad, I’d email the speakers of Startup School BEFORE STARTUP SCHOOL.<\/p>\n Studies show 2-9% of people in the audience email people after they hear people speak. Studies show less than 0.5% of student entrepreneurs email speakers before speakers speak.<\/p>\n Similarly, YC admits only 2-9% of applicants.<\/p>\n Similarly, 0.5% of VC funded entities will IPO.<\/p>\n \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n My number one “hack” is to email the speakers BEFORE THEY SPEAK<\/p>\n QUESTION: how do I do that?! Oh, and cc me on the email My email is c-h-i-a-n-g- 9 @duck9 (no spaces and it ends with dot com as in my last name, 9 no space at my company dot com. Everyone’s email is first name at company dot com. For example Levie at Box.com. Err For example Drew at DropBox.com. Excuse me for sounding silly but I seriously get those guys mixed up. One is the poster child for MIT CS and the other USC CS)<\/p>\n If they (the people you email) don’t respond inside of 24 hours, I, Larry Chiang, will call them<\/p>\n #2 best technique I’d do:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Before applying to YC’s Startup School, I’d email 2-5 partners at YC<\/p>\n Do You See a Pattern Developing Here.<\/p>\n They, the YC partners, are seriously just sitting around waiting for the next crop of Drew Houston<\/a>‘s and Aaron Levie’s to email them<\/p>\n #3 best technique I’d do if I were an undergrad engineer wanting to be a legendary entrepreneur<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n I’d show up to a lot of places socially anxious.<\/p>\n It “is” Stanford.<\/p>\n You should be socially anxious at the school that rejected you… Especially if you go to the University of Illinois. #Illini<\/p>\n Well, I’d oust that social anxiety and kick aside those stomach butterflies by preparing super well.<\/p>\n Google every speaker<\/em>. #4 best technique I’d do<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n I’d counter intuitively realize that you should really really like Stanfurdh.<\/p>\n Huh?!<\/p>\n Stanford University is an open campus and it allows you to learn here for frees. Free’s is the plural of free because it is SUPER FREE HERE AND SUPER AWESOME.<\/p>\n You can learn whatever you want.<\/p>\n I am going to repeat that: You can learn whatever you want here.<\/p>\n Think it’s a coincidence that Stanford University is the solo school hosting the “Startup School<\/a>“???!? It is not coincidence. It is by purpose, on purpose. To quote a business school professor, “Larry, the education here is free. The MBA paper your diploma is on cost 2 hundred grand”
\n Larry Chiang Answer<\/span>: Read my post: “how to close a deal over email<\/a> even when you don’t have their email”. https:\/\/bit.ly\/buster14512v<\/a><\/p>\n
\nRead 2-7 articles about every speaker<\/em>.
\nEmail every speaker 2-10 times<\/em> (and cc me EVERYTIME. “no wonder Larry Chiang was successful. Look at all he did”<\/p>\n
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