{"id":2349,"date":"2014-06-28T13:40:53","date_gmt":"2014-06-28T17:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/?p=2349"},"modified":"2014-06-28T13:47:09","modified_gmt":"2014-06-28T17:47:09","slug":"how-to-set-the-startup-bell-curve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/how-to-set-the-startup-bell-curve\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Set the Startup Bell Curve"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<p style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.571em; \"><strong style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">Larry Chiang has parlayed a 2008 book report on his mentor&#8217;s books into a media firestorm. After a Harvard Business School event, they wrote: &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.harbus.org\/2009\/What-They-Dont-Teach-4531\/\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px; \">What They Don\u2019t Teach You at Stanford Business School<\/a>&#8220;. He now blogs at Harvard&#8217;s Harbus. How in the world!? Because at Stanford, what they used to not teach, they now do teach. In the engineering school! Enjoy hacking startups and setting the bell curve for your E145 startup in this post:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.571em; \"><strong style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><a href=\"https:\/\/whattheydontteachyouatstanfordbusinessschool.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/cropped-head-shot-no-smile.jpg\" style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px; \"><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\" style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px 1.571em 1.571em 0px; border: none; float: left; \"><\/a>STANFORD, CALIF.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.571em; \"><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">By&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20100201040226\/https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/What-Teach-Stanford-Business-School\/dp\/0615301487\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px; \"><strong style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px; \">Larry Chiang<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px; \">\n<div style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px; \">\n<div style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px; \">\n<p style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.571em; \"><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">My mentor is Mark McCormack. He passed away in 2003 so he cannot mentor you E145 students. ENGR 145 is Technology Entrepreneurship. It&#8217;s all open source so feel free to study along with me. When I say study along&#8230; I mean execute, study, read, study, re-read, text me, re-google-Then-read, note-take, track, text-me-some-progress. Execute, study, re-read. Execute some more.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.571em; \">Majority of execution is getting revenue. Majority of benefit from ENGR 145 is practicing execution. On the left side of the entrepreneur bell curve, there is analysis, paralysis and a bunch of useless internal deliverables. External deliverables = sales.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<table style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; 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 (<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\/481459049943556096\">6\/24\/14, 8:29 AM<\/a><\/div>\n<div>First day of ENGINEERING 145. So excited!!! <a href=\"https:\/\/search.twitter.com\/search?q=#ENGR145\">#ENGR145<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jealous u can&#8217;t go to HBS?? <a href=\"https:\/\/search.twitter.com\/search?q=#Self\">#Self<\/a>-Study<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/search.twitter.com\/search?q=#CrashParties\">#CrashParties<\/a>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.571em; \"><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.571em; \"><span style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;\"><b>Execution via sales helps you set the bell curve.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.571em; \"><span style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); \">\/1\/ Google EURVMM&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.571em; \"><span style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); \">it&#8217;s a subroutine. A hashtag is a subroutine to execute #EURVMM<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.571em; \"><span style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;\">\/2\/ setting the bell curve involves a dozen other subroutines<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; \"><b style=\"-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); \">These ARE TEASED via 2 videos LIKE A MOVIE TRAILER<\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; \"><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 style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; \"><\/div>\n<div style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; \"><span style=\"-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; \">I may blog a lot pervasively. But I also cite and source more books on this blog than all VCs combined. AS AN example BOOK REPORT,&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"-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; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); \">I am narrating the legendary ENGR 145 video&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/buster14512w\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"-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; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; \"><a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/buster14512w\" >https:\/\/bit.ly\/buster14512w<\/a><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Larry Chiang has parlayed a 2008 book report on his mentor&#8217;s books into a media firestorm. After a Harvard Business School event, they wrote: &#8220;What They Don\u2019t Teach You at Stanford Business School&#8220;. He now blogs at Harvard&#8217;s Harbus. How in the world!? Because at Stanford, what they used to not teach, they now do [&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-2349","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\/2349","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=2349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}