{"id":2269,"date":"2014-06-04T13:10:36","date_gmt":"2014-06-04T17:10:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/?p=2269"},"modified":"2014-06-04T13:17:48","modified_gmt":"2014-06-04T17:17:48","slug":"an-article-cal-e-week-chokes-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/an-article-cal-e-week-chokes-on\/","title":{"rendered":"An Article Cal E Week Chokes On"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By Larry Chiang<\/div>\n
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In the same way I like dogs and cats. I like Cal. I really like Cal. As founder of “Cal E Week”, #CalEweek, I hope to meet you.<\/div>\n
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I’m breaking all sorts of rules writing this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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Things Stanford did to go from “Top 50” to Undisputed #1 can help you as a first time founder.<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Remember, I went to Illinois and vomit a li’l in my mouth that private school kids get every advantage. World class athletic facilities. Alum support. The Buck Cardinal club. Big budgets!! <\/div>\n

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Disclosure: I’m a Buck Cardinal club member.<\/div>\n
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When Stanford recruited me (the first time for baseball), the school was at-best top 20 in the way that your friends friend quotes their crap college having the #1 program of a major with no ROI. The football program was a joke. It had Olympic swimmer and Olympic water polo. <\/div>\n
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In Naperville, where I’m from, we thought water polo was played in a 6′ pool and swimming was a haze because we had to ride the bus to nnhs (we shared a pool with the rival high school)<\/div>\n
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Here is a barf-tastic historical examination that will double as preparation for you as first-time-founder. Remember. Entrepreneurship professors pour over these blog posts so you should put pen to paper and *ingest*. Yup, just swallow it—<\/div>\n
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[Swallow Point #1]<\/div>\n
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Be open source cuz you kinda don’t have a choice!!<\/div>\n
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“How to do what Stanford does without having to pay Stanford tuition.”<\/div>\n
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The entire college has every morsel of knowledge loaded up via the Internet. Pay zero tuition. All-the-knowledge.<\/div>\n
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As a first time founder, YOU MUST do a slideshare, “How to do what Muck9 does without having the hire ‘Mexican Underground Credit Knowledge 9′”. Edit-find-replace, “Muck9” with your new startup<\/div>\n
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Pay attention to this pattern: The most closed entities suck. Remember, if you’re in stealth…, everyone thinks “partial retard, fully a newbie”. Muck9 is my next startup with a clear gameplan I have openly blogged here. My ideas are ok. My execution is legendary.<\/div>\n
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Ya. Can’t. Stop. Me. (That should be your attitude too \ud83d\ude42 Now execute, “How to do what xamarin does without having to hire Xamarin” (Obvi replace with your startups name. See the duck9 slide-by-slide-mentorship <\/div>\n
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[Swallow Point #2]<\/span><\/div>\n

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Engineer up a tidal wave of Asian momentum.<\/span><\/div>\n

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VCs used to ask, “What is your Asia strategy. Now we all ask, “How Asian are you?”<\/span><\/div>\n

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Look no further than Bay Area eateries. It’s actually impossible to eat out for a week and not eat fusion (aka 50% Asian) and ingest a gallon of soy sauce.<\/span><\/div>\n

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Translation for first time founder: Be a “chinaman chinaman, sitting on a fence <\/span><\/div>\n
Makin’ $600k outta fifteen cents”<\/span><\/div>\n

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Engineer up a tidal wave of Asian self-funded hustle. Remember Leland recognized the productivity of an Asian with a wheelbarrow and a shovel. You have “two iPhones and a microphone (aka a Mac)”<\/span><\/div>\n

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[Swallow Point #3]<\/span><\/div>\n

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Host the best events and make money doing it. [insert a million historical citations here]<\/span><\/div>\n

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As a first-time founder, host 11 minute events replicating the pattern “After Party”. There is a techcrunch post on this. Pay particularly close attention to the business recipe “MPAF” (it’s only at TechCrunch, I didn’t put it in my book or anywhere else)<\/span><\/div>\n

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An eleven minute party where your Eventbrite links to your wordpress links to your Plancast, links to your YouTube links to your landing page is a method to make money while you make money.<\/span><\/div>\n

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[Swallow Point #4]<\/span><\/div>\n

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Tease the VCs.<\/span><\/div>\n

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Stanford does this magnificently. It teases VCs. Remember if you’re a bull looking at a field of bitches, you stroll down the hill (so you can bang em all). You don’t run down the hill.<\/span><\/div>\n

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And you don’t overly show your enthusiasm for female cows on The Farm by stampeding down the hill!! Go slow. Make them all wanna bang u<\/span><\/div>\n

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(Confession: This is admittedly a male perspective. If you’d like clearly female mentorship, see my Women 2.0 content. Also google my “gender reversal entrepreneur exercises”)<\/span><\/div>\n

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First time founders, VCs need to be teased and fluffed. Go back and execute <\/span>Point #3 and #2, then text me. I’ll text you back, I swear.<\/span><\/div>\n

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[Swallow Point #4]<\/span><\/div>\n

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The whopper.<\/span><\/div>\n

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Encourage people to steal your content. Reduce barriers. Cross the chasm from the right (CTCFTR)<\/span><\/div>\n

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As a first time founder, no amount of patent protection protects. If a fortune 100 company like Nalco Chemical wants a long and drawn out battle for your “Internal Nuclear fission engine that bypasses use of steam for power plants”, you’re losing that legal battle 11 times out of 10.<\/span><\/div>\n

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Instead, do <\/span>[Swallow Point #1] and mentor them to “do it in house”<\/span><\/div>\n

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I mentored the engineering school {+ placement office?} and talked about street smarts and how we females need to transition from “I-Dont-Know-to CEO”. Street smarts I simple read and regurgitated<\/span><\/div>\n

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My mentor’s Mark McCormacks book.<\/span><\/div>\n

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Like all alpha leaders, they said “We don’t wanna do this in-house. U come teach it.”<\/span><\/div>\n

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That’s how I ended up teaching<\/span><\/div>\n
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ENGR145’s Anchor Concept: Lemonade and Gua Gua Guacamole <\/div>\n
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It moves you to the right on the entrepreneur bell curve <\/div>\n
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At a crap college like the University of Cal, they’d say (internally to themselves :-), the Cal administrators would say: “We sorely need this but we would rather throw up roadblocks and preserve power”<\/div>\n
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As a first time founder, get political and just secretly like my scandalous insight.<\/div>\n
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[Swallow Point #6]<\/span><\/div>\n

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It’s a video for women ONLY<\/span><\/div>\n
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Read my last 10 tweets at https:\/\/www.Twitter.com\/LarryChiang<\/a><\/a><\/div>\n
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Author, NY Times Bestseller<\/div>\n
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“What They Will NEVER Teach You at Stanford Business School” comes out 11-11-17<\/div>\n
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52 Cards. Two Jokers. What They DO Teach You at Stanford Engineering<\/div>\n
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