{"id":1830,"date":"2013-11-25T10:44:44","date_gmt":"2013-11-25T14:44:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/?p=1830"},"modified":"2013-11-25T10:49:44","modified_gmt":"2013-11-25T14:49:44","slug":"national-conference-innovation-and-entrepreneurship-open14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/national-conference-innovation-and-entrepreneurship-open14\/","title":{"rendered":"National Conference Innovation and Entrepreneurship (#Open14)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>By Larry Chiang<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>This is my hobby, studying entrepreneurship.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I still work at the company I started as a sophomore. That is what I do for cash money. A lot of cash money. For a hobby, I study entrepreneurship.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Educators meeting is cool, so I&#8217;m &nbsp;interested in this conference on collegiate entrepreneurship March 20-23. (Plus, my mentor helped me when I was an undergrad engineer, so it&#8217;s a natural progression to give back)<\/div>\n<div><\/p>\n<table style=\"border:1px solid black;padding:8px;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"bottom\">\n<td width=\"48\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/3411684931\/bd26194fa93733b624ec22966dbdb9d9_normal.jpeg\" style=\"width:48px;height:48px;padding-right:8px;\"><\/td>\n<td><b>Larry Chiang (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/larrychiang\">@LarryChiang<\/a>)<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\">\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/larrychiang\/status\/404752751302692864\">11\/24\/13, 3:25 PM<\/a><\/div>\n<div>I&#8217;ve made a plan for Larry Chiang&#8217;s Unofficial <a href=\"https:\/\/search.twitter.com\/search?q=#Open14\">#Open14<\/a> Poster Party in SJ w Ice Cream Sundae Bar <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XFJl5jfzGM\"><span>awe.sm\/bHXNx<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Here are things that I&#8217;m paying attention to:<\/div>\n<div>&#8211; How will Stanford staff welcome and mentor fellow campus admins.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211; Will Stanford share some of the common entrepreneurship pitfalls when higher education tackles stimulating students to co-found a startup. Or do a small business incubator.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>My fear is that simply by this NCIIA Conference (#Open14) being located in Silicon Valley, that all y&#8217;all will be too intimidated. We all know about the Georgia Tech debacle that Nick Wingfield wrote about in the NY Times.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>It was called &#8220;Reaching for Silicon Valley&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I&#8217;ll tongue-in-cheek show how some campuses actively thwart entrepreneur energy. These will be done using the methodology &#8220;Live Action Business Case Studies&#8221;. Sometimes I&#8217;ll obfuscate the names to protect the guilty \ud83d\ude1b<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I hope to meet you in person and maybe enjoy an ice cream sundae in this social setting.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>As a humorous post, I&#8217;ll be writing, &#8220;10 Lies Told in Silicon Valley About Entrepreneurship&#8221;. It will be released March 11 at UTeWeek in Austin, Texas at SXSW. It is a conference where undergrads launch tech companies. There will be a Gua Gua Guacamole party to coincide with the article release and a DVD promotion (I&#8217;m in a George Clooney movie).&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>If you&#8217;re interested in SXSW, I can have a UT student sell you AirBNB housing. It&#8217;s a franchise I co-founded under the &#8220;Larry Chiang 100% Affiliate Program&#8221;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Larry Chiang This is my hobby, studying entrepreneurship.&nbsp; I still work at the company I started as a sophomore. That is what I do for cash money. A lot of cash money. For a hobby, I study entrepreneurship.&nbsp; Educators meeting is cool, so I&#8217;m &nbsp;interested in this conference on collegiate entrepreneurship March 20-23. (Plus, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1830","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=1830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1830\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}