{"id":1922,"date":"2013-12-14T14:59:05","date_gmt":"2013-12-14T18:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/?p=1922"},"modified":"2015-06-20T12:10:32","modified_gmt":"2015-06-20T16:10:32","slug":"the-arbitrage-opportunity-know-as-santa-con","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/the-arbitrage-opportunity-know-as-santa-con\/","title":{"rendered":"The Arbitrage Opportunity Know as &#8220;Santa Con&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Larry Chiang has a Jedi in Business Admin. He got to keynote at a University he did not get into: Harvard University. They wrote: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.harbus.org\/2009\/What-They-Dont-Teach-4531\/\" target=\"_blank\">What They Don\u2019t Teach You at Stanford Business School&#8221;<\/a>. Be a Jedi in Business Administration and arbitrage by selling way high and buying way low<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/whattheydontteachyouatstanfordbusinessschool.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/cropped-head-shot-no-smile.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-743\" title=\"Larry-Chiang\" src=\"https:\/\/whattheydontteachyouatstanfordbusinessschool.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/cropped-head-shot-no-smile.jpg\" alt=\"Larry Chiang\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>by Larry Chiang<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>So, loyal readers, all y&#8217;all know its all about the arbitrage and the algorithm.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>At the heart of your entrepreneurship practice, search out, flesh out, conjure up<\/div>\n<div>&#8211; the Arbitrage<\/div>\n<div>And<\/div>\n<div>&#8211; the Algorithm<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Ok, so lets practice.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Lets, as undergrads, practice being a founder. Remember, it is not a perfection. It&#8217;s not an academic exercise.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>It is a &#8220;practice&#8221;<\/div>\n<div>\n<table style=\"border: 1px solid black; padding: 8px;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"bottom\">\n<td width=\"48\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 48px; height: 48px; padding-right: 8px;\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/3411684931\/bd26194fa93733b624ec22966dbdb9d9_normal.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/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\/411928846112276480\">12\/14\/13, 10:41 AM<\/a><\/div>\n<div>The arbitrage opportunity for undergrad engineers known as &#8220;Santa Con&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/search.twitter.com\/search?q=#LABCS3359\">#LABCS3359<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/search.twitter.com\/search?q=#LABCS\">#LABCS<\/a><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Live Action Business Case Study 3359 is SF&#8217;s &#8220;Santa Con&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>It&#8217;s old people 22-29 gathering to day drink and pretend like they&#8217;re in college circa 2004.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>So immature<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Plot spoiler, none of these horny single people bought a costume. A santa costume. Just like those Halloween pop-up stores pop-up&#8230;. There is no Santa suit pop up Store.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Plot spoiler for LABCS case study 3359, these horny people in 2014 will not have purchased a Santa suit.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Solve this problem by arbitraging Santa suits. Based on my algorithm, you should be able to make a grand with only 20.00 at risk and 12 hours at Stake. I&#8217;d use Eventbrite to have customers pre pay their &#8220;ticket&#8221; for an 11 minute santa con pre party at Westin hotel in the lobby bar<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Have the bell hops facilitate your dead drops in case said Santa Con costume Santa suit customer misses the 11 min party<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Working a hotel like this is a sub LABCS maneuver called Gua Gua Guacamole &#8220;Getting Home Field Advantage on the Road&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Engineering up a 11 Minute Party is &#8220;ENGR 145&#8217;s Minimum Viable Party&#8221; signature maneuver (also documented as a Harvard Business School (HBS \ud83d\ude42 post. Use Eventbrite<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Call to action: text me (1-650-283-8008) &#8220;Santa Con arbitrage opp is a &#8220;Go&#8221;)<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>Call to action: post this video on your Fb wall<\/div>\n<div>ENGR145&#8217;s Anchor Concept: Lemonade and Gua Gua Guacamole<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>It moves you to the right on the entrepreneur bell curve<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eudADPfTWiE&amp;feature=youtube_gdata_player\"><embed src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/eudADPfTWiE&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=n5jB310egEI&amp;feature=youtube_gdata_player\"><embed src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/n5jB310egEI&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BMyLcDaWazU&amp;feature=youtube_gdata_player\"><embed src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/BMyLcDaWazU&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>CEO of Duck9<\/div>\n<div>Stanford University Entrepreneur in Residence, Emeritus<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Duck9 = &#8220;Deep Underground Credit Knowledge&#8221; 9<\/div>\n<div>125 University Avenue\/ 100<\/div>\n<div>Palo Alto CA 94301<\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/ass\">https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/ass<\/a><\/div>\n<div>650-566-9600<\/div>\n<div>650-566-9696 (direct)<\/div>\n<div>650-283-8008 (cell)<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>****************<\/div>\n<div>Editor of the BusinessWeek Channel &#8220;What They Don&#8217;t Teach at Business School&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/whattheydontteachyouatstanfordbusinessschool.com\/blog\">https:\/\/whattheydontteachyouatstanfordbusinessschool.com\/blog<\/a><\/div>\n<div>CNN Video Channel: <a href=\"https:\/\/ireport.cnn.com\/people\/larrychiang\">https:\/\/ireport.cnn.com\/people\/larrychiang<\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Read my last 10 tweets at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.Twitter.com\/LarryChiang\">https:\/\/www.Twitter.com\/LarryChiang<\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Author, NY Times Bestseller<\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/whattheydontteachyouatstanfordbusinessschool.com\/blog\/?s=Ny+times+bestseller\">https:\/\/whattheydontteachyouatstanfordbusinessschool.com\/blog\/?s=Ny+times+bestseller<\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;What They Will NEVER Teach You at Stanford Business School&#8221; comes out 11-11-14<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/embed\/c0d4562ea2049\">https:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/embed\/c0d4562ea2049<\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>52 Cards. Two Jokers. What They DO Teach You at Stanford Engineering<\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vDBY0GkI3-g&amp;feature=youtube_gdata_player\"><embed src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/vDBY0GkI3-g&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Emergency swings and cutting deals as an 9 year old<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=OFGY7v9C4G0&amp;feature=youtube_gdata_player\"><embed src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/OFGY7v9C4G0&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>##########<\/div>\n<div>Duck9 is part of UCMS Inc.<\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucms.com\">https:\/\/www.ucms.com<\/a><\/div>\n<div>630-705-5555<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Larry Chiang has a Jedi in Business Admin. He got to keynote at a University he did not get into: Harvard University. They wrote: \u201cWhat They Don\u2019t Teach You at Stanford Business School&#8221;. Be a Jedi in Business Administration and arbitrage by selling way high and buying way low &nbsp; by Larry Chiang So, loyal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deep-underground-capital-knowledge"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1922","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=1922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}