{"id":2111,"date":"2014-03-04T08:42:24","date_gmt":"2014-03-04T12:42:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/?p=2111"},"modified":"2014-03-04T08:53:38","modified_gmt":"2014-03-04T12:53:38","slug":"closing-for-deals-sxsw-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/closing-for-deals-sxsw-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Closing for Deals @ SXSW 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>By Larry Chiang<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I will close more deals at SXSW than every MBA visiting. Combined.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>By &#8220;closing&#8221;, I do not mean closing ass. I mean, why come here for the ass when there is so much HEAT!? My SXSW cherry is in-tact more so than a Christian NBA athlete on-the-road @Utah.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Focused.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Deals!<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Deals via pre-blogging&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>Deals via gmail keyword alerting.<\/div>\n<div>Deals in the Four Seasons steam <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/vc0311a\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/vc0311a\" >https:\/\/bit.ly\/vc0311a<\/a><\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Deals on email. w dude&#8217;s email. Closing on Email via an address that you do not even have the email address for. Deals.<\/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 @ SXSW (<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\/440699554766544896\">3\/3\/14, 8:05 PM<\/a><\/div>\n<div>ToDo reveal how to hoe post<br \/>Ben Horowitz <a href=\"https:\/\/search.twitter.com\/search?q=#SXSW\">#SXSW<\/a><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>RapLyric: &#8220;How to Hoe&#8221; =&gt; be a lead gen whore =&gt; close deals street smart with your engineering book smart.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&lt;~ WOW<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\/1\/ Always cc me, Larry (at) duck9 [dot] C-o-M<\/div>\n<div>I&#8217;m important. So when you email. Cc me. I&#8217;ll prolly REPLY ALL something cray cray<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\/2\/ Guess at their email<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\/3\/ Master what masters-of-deal-closing know about email<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Here<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: '.HelveticaNeueUI'; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; white-space: nowrap; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; \"><a href=\"https:\/\/whattheydontteachyouatstanfordbusinessschool.wordpress.com\/2009\/12\/11\/secrets-to-closing-a-deal-via-email\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/whattheydontteachyouatstanfordbusinessschool.wordpress.com\/2009\/12\/11\/secrets-to-closing-a-deal-via-email\/\" >https:\/\/whattheydontteachyouatstanfordbusinessschool.wordpress.com\/2009\/12\/11\/secrets-to-closing-a-deal-via-email\/<\/a><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: '.HelveticaNeueUI'; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; white-space: nowrap; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; \">Evan Reas and Ben Horowitz HERE<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: '.HelveticaNeueUI'; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; white-space: nowrap; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bhorowitz.com\/tags\/andreessen_horowitz\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bhorowitz.com\/tags\/andreessen_horowitz\" >https:\/\/www.bhorowitz.com\/tags\/andreessen_horowitz<\/a><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: '.HelveticaNeueUI'; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; white-space: nowrap; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; \">Mark Suster<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: '.HelveticaNeueUI'; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; white-space: nowrap; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; \"><a href=\"https:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2011\/06\/16\/hacking-the-system-how-to-land-meetings-with-anyone-you-want\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2011\/06\/16\/hacking-the-system-how-to-land-meetings-with-anyone-you-want\/\" >https:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2011\/06\/16\/hacking-the-system-how-to-land-meetings-with-anyone-you-want\/<\/a><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>ENGR145&#8217;s Anchor Concept: Lemonade and Gua Gua Guacamole&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>It moves you to the right on the entrepreneur bell curve&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eudADPfTWiE&amp;feature=youtube_gdata_player\"><embed width='425' height='344' allowfullscreen='true' allowscriptaccess='always' type='application\/x-shockwave-flash' src='https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/eudADPfTWiE&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1' \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=n5jB310egEI&amp;feature=youtube_gdata_player\"><embed width='425' height='344' allowfullscreen='true' allowscriptaccess='always' type='application\/x-shockwave-flash' src='https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/n5jB310egEI&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1' \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BMyLcDaWazU&amp;feature=youtube_gdata_player\"><embed width='425' height='344' allowfullscreen='true' allowscriptaccess='always' type='application\/x-shockwave-flash' src='https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/BMyLcDaWazU&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1' \/><\/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; 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Combined. By &#8220;closing&#8221;, I do not mean closing ass. I mean, why come here for the ass when there is so much HEAT!? My SXSW cherry is in-tact more so than a Christian NBA athlete on-the-road @Utah. Focused. Deals! Deals via [&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-2111","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\/2111","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=2111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}