{"id":1552,"date":"2013-09-18T13:19:55","date_gmt":"2013-09-18T17:19:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/?p=1552"},"modified":"2013-09-19T02:21:02","modified_gmt":"2013-09-19T06:21:02","slug":"the-risk-mitigated-risk-minimized-method-to-start-a-startup-err-start-a-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/the-risk-mitigated-risk-minimized-method-to-start-a-startup-err-start-a-company\/","title":{"rendered":"The Risk Mitigated, Risk Minimized Method to Start a Startup (ERR START A COMPANY!)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By Larry Chiang<\/div>\n
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I’m from the future.<\/div>\n
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Some of y’all start risky startups that might fail. Well, as sure as how I anointed myself #1 in Entrepreneur Shit (get it?! It’s a hiLarryAss double entendre of entrepreneurship, hat tips to Mark Suster)<\/div>\n
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Anyway, without giving away the plot from the future \ud83d\ude09 Here is my present in the present…<\/div>\n
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A hashtag<\/div>\n
#RMRMRE<\/div>\n
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wha??<\/div>\n
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Yup! RMRMRE is<\/div>\n
Risk mitigates<\/div>\n
Risk Minimized<\/div>\n
Risk Eliminated<\/div>\n
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I present to you four “Larry Chiang live action business case studies”<\/div>\n
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\"\"<\/td>\nLarry Chiang (@LarryChiang<\/a>)<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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9\/18\/13, 10:05 AM<\/a><\/div>\n
I’m featuring @marcusnelson<\/a> @jowyang<\/a> in a blog post. Don’t be scared. It’s like every other article #ENGR145<\/a>
\n@garrytan<\/a> @dannysullivan<\/a> u too<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Hat tip and thank you to Tom Kosnik, Stanford Re case studies that I learned about while at Stanford Engineering<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\"\"<\/td>\nMarcus Nelson (@marcusnelson<\/a>)<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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9\/18\/13, 8:49 AM<\/a><\/div>\n
Wow, this is going to be huge, Congrats\u00a0@jowyang<\/a>\u00a0\u00bb Jeremiah\u2019s new venture; moving on from\u00a0@altimeter<\/a>\u00a0add.vc\/tCb<\/a>\u00a0#startup<\/a><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Btw, Marcus Nelson started Addvocate.
\nHe started UserVoice.
\nThen went to Salesforce.
\nThen started a sequel company to Saleforce: Addvocate<\/p>\n

Jermiah Owyang started a company that is a sequel company that is a sequel to Altimeter<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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https:\/\/www.web-strategist.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/18\/jeremiahs-new-venture-moving-on-from-altimeter\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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@garrytan
\nHe started Posterous. Sold it to Twitter
\nThen started PostHaven.<\/a> <\/p>\n

@dannysullivan<\/a>
\nHe started Search Engine Watch
\nThen he started Search Engine LandSequels have very little risk.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

ENGR145’s Anchor Concept: Lemonade and Gua Gua Guacamole<\/div>\n
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It moves you to the right on the entrepreneur bell curve<\/div>\n
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By Larry Chiang I’m from the future. Some of y’all start risky startups that might fail. Well, as sure as how I anointed myself #1 in Entrepreneur Shit (get it?! It’s a hiLarryAss double entendre of entrepreneurship, hat tips to Mark Suster) Anyway, without giving away the plot from the future \ud83d\ude09 Here is my […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entrepreneurship","category-stanford-engineering"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1552","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=1552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}