{"id":2115,"date":"2014-03-05T22:23:33","date_gmt":"2014-03-06T02:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/?p=2115"},"modified":"2014-03-05T22:25:11","modified_gmt":"2014-03-06T02:25:11","slug":"what-rod-canion-mastered-about-entrepreneurship-but-did-not-stress-at-ut-eweek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/what-rod-canion-mastered-about-entrepreneurship-but-did-not-stress-at-ut-eweek\/","title":{"rendered":"What Rod Canion Mastered About Entrepreneurship But Did Not Stress at UT eWeek"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I’m sitting first chair entrepreneurship here at Gates. At University of Texas during Entrepreneur Week, Mr Rod Canion spoke about co-founding Compaq.<\/div>\n
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Mr Canion didn’t stress things that come to many engineering founders as second-nature. These things were critical<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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3\/5\/14, 8:03 PM<\/a><\/div>\n
Rod Canion at #UTeWeek<\/a>. It’s a pre #SXSW<\/a> party. So, so smart!!!<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

\/1\/ Pre-Existing Teams<\/div>\n

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Compaq’s core co-founders came from Texas Instruments. VCs love teams. Bringing the old band back together, increases likelihood of execution.<\/div>\n
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Stressing pre-existing teams seems obvi. So, perhaps Rod Canion assumed the audience was all engineers…<\/div>\n
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\/2\/ Planning and Plotting.<\/div>\n
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Engineers focus on details. Entrepreneurship falls apart in the details.<\/div>\n
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\/3\/ Sandbag the business situation.<\/div>\n
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When Rod Canion pitched VCs, he under forecasted his numbers. This is known as engineering parlance as “sandbagging”.<\/div>\n
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\/4\/ Walk away from VCs<\/div>\n
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VCs are like popular high school people… They like to be walked away from. VCs pushed to break up one member of their Texas Instruments team.<\/div>\n
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Rod Canion exercised his walkway negotiating power.<\/div>\n
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By Larry Chiang I’m sitting first chair entrepreneurship here at Gates. At University of Texas during Entrepreneur Week, Mr Rod Canion spoke about co-founding Compaq. Mr Canion didn’t stress things that come to many engineering founders as second-nature. These things were critical Larry Chiang @ SXSW (@LarryChiang) 3\/5\/14, 8:03 PM Rod Canion at #UTeWeek. It’s […]<\/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-2115","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\/2115","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=2115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}