{"id":18612,"date":"2023-06-09T22:14:55","date_gmt":"2023-06-10T02:14:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/?p=18612"},"modified":"2023-06-10T23:34:51","modified_gmt":"2023-06-11T03:34:51","slug":"five-things-i-learned-at-startup-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/five-things-i-learned-at-startup-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Things I Learned at Startup School by fake Larry Chiang"},"content":{"rendered":"

Larry Chiang\u2019s 5th book, WTDTYASBS, launched at a Harvard Law School keynote, so he knows about grand openings (He even attends and promotes the ones he isn\u2019t invited to also). As CEO of Duck9, he leads an army to help college student\u00a0consumers get a FICO<\/a>\u00a0over 770. Post H.L.S. keynote, Harvard Business wrote: \u201cWhat They Don\u2019t Teach You at Stanford Business School<\/a>\u201d (his latest Harbus post: \u201cSetting an intention for SXSWi\u201d.<\/p>\n

Y Combinator has a brilliant franchise. It is called\u00a0Startup School<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This year it is at Stanford University on October 29 and co-hosted with BASES, the Business Association of Stanford Entrepreneurial Students.<\/p>\n

Some of Silicon Valley\u2019s elite used to poo-poo Startup School as being too basic. I have always been in the camp supporting it. By \u201csupporting,\u201d I mean crashing. Remember, I only crash the best stuff. And I have been to every Startup School at Stanford University.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t like when blog posts come out after an event, so I want to crystal-ball this event by examining and revealing what happened in the past. I hope this prepares you for Saturday at Dinkelspiel.<\/p>\n

Here are the best morsels learned from Startup Schools of Yesteryear.<\/p>\n

1. Just Ask<\/strong><\/p>\n

Garry Tan posted about asking for stuff after you are turned down for venture money. There are numerous case studies that document entrepreneurs failing forward after getting turned down for VC money.<\/p>\n

Garry\u2019s blog articles relating to Y Combinator are\u00a0here<\/a>.\u00a0Almost any speaker at Startup School is a good candidate for an ask. Asking is the tough part of executing all the knowledge that volcanoes out from Startup School. So\u00a0just ask<\/a>, and ask some more.<\/p>\n

2. Pre- Networking Involves Reaching Out Via E-mail<\/strong><\/p>\n

How do you email a person when you don\u2019t know them or their email address?\u00a0Well according to Evan Reas, CEO\/founder of LikeALittle, the first step is just to guess at their address.\u00a0You hack the email algorithm. \u201cThere are only so many combinations of email addresses. First name only. First initial, last name. Initials only.\u201d<\/p>\n

Reas is a master at guessing an email and hammering it until there is interaction. For example, he e-mailed an industry titan 30+ times before he got interaction. Evan is a GSB alum and a computer scientist who codes and codes.<\/p>\n

3. Be a Cockroach<\/strong><\/p>\n

You only die if you choose to die.<\/p>\n

Paul Graham values people who stick with it. \u201cWe know that startups only die when the founders give up,\u201d he says. He said of the AirBnb guys, \u201cYou guys are like cockroaches. You will never die.\u201d<\/p>\n

4. Learn from OPE (Other People\u2019s Experience)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Y Combinator has legendary office hours for its startups, and make them public during TechCrunch Disrupt in New York and San Francisco.\u00a0There are blog articles and video available that contain over 60 minutes of entrepreneurship content, mentorship, and tips. I paid over $4k cash, but you can have them free if you use some Google smarts. Or just e-mail me.<\/p>\n

5. Be Young. Or Inexperienced. Just Start.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Max Swisher is 12. He is getting mentored by Spencer Schoeben and they were at Cory Levy\u2019s Stanford Next Generation conference.\u00a0At last year\u2019s YC Startup School, Max started to execute entrepreneurship and\u00a0asked Ron Conway to fund him<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Welcome to Startup School and the wild ride that is entrepreneurship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Larry Chiang\u2019s 5th book, WTDTYASBS, launched at a Harvard Law School keynote, so he knows about grand openings (He even attends and promotes the ones he isn\u2019t invited to also). As CEO of Duck9, he leads an army to help college student\u00a0consumers get a FICO\u00a0over 770. Post H.L.S. keynote, Harvard Business wrote: \u201cWhat They Don\u2019t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stanford-engineering"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18612","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=18612"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18688,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18612\/revisions\/18688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}