{"id":2657,"date":"2014-09-26T17:00:29","date_gmt":"2014-09-26T21:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/?p=2657"},"modified":"2015-10-26T16:58:00","modified_gmt":"2015-10-26T20:58:00","slug":"63030-students-for-cs-183b-distribute-winners-to-losers-in-a-bell-curve-pattern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/63030-students-for-cs-183b-distribute-winners-to-losers-in-a-bell-curve-pattern\/","title":{"rendered":"63,030 Students for CS 183B Distribute WINNERS to LOSERS in a Bell Curve Pattern"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By Larry Chiang<\/div>\n

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Oh, I’m here to dole out wisdom if you want to go from Silicon Valley outsider to Bay Area insider (lol, I just made a CS 183, Lecture 18, Peter Thiel pun:-)<\/div>\n

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Quora said that I was part of Silicon Valley’s triple threat {along w\/ YC and Stanford). So, since I am an institution now ($ know you’re busy ;), I will just rifle off something that’ll knock that sticker off your Mac. Really.<\/div>\n

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“7 total hours can move you past 63.01k students.”<\/div>\n
– Larry Chiang<\/div>\n

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A week ago, Sam had 50k. By the time you’ve read this, it might be 80,000<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
\"\"<\/td>\nSam Altman (@sama<\/a>)<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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50,000 people have now signed up to watch CS183B (startupclass.samaltman.com<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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LOOK KIDS.<\/div>\n

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Student entrepreneurship has a bell curve. How competitive are you!?! Well, you’ve read this far, so “Congrats”<\/div>\n

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Let me reiterate something all y’all already know. 63,010 students won’t do dick. 20-24 will. If you’re part of the “20”…, Good news<\/div>\n

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Good news is that it’s not even going to take 7 hours. It’s not a sales pitch for a book. No, I dont wanna “advise you and take back end points”. I just want a hug and a high five. Well, it’s also me teasing you with high rewards, small effort and street smarts. I’m putting out…<\/div>\n

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…2 videos no longer than 9 minutes, 59 seconds, each, will lever what PG and Sam Altman repeatedly say: “Do things that don’t scale”. They video and stress and blog this point BUT DON’T BREAK IT DOWN INTO TACTICAL, ACTIONABLE STEPS.<\/div>\n
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ME?! I didn’t parlay my lofty title into VC funding but rather doubled up my effort to document. I broke down “do things that don’t scale” into over a dozen subroutines here:<\/div>\n
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Steve Blank has some thoughts via twitter that I shared here<\/div>\n
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https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/stanford-engineering\/sequencing-startup-classes-at-stanford-university\/<\/a><\/div>\n
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CS 183b has a sequel (this helps you with the bell curve)<\/div>\n

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Startup School had a sequel too: “Startup Academy”. See how University of Texas students shifted the the successful side of the bell curve\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
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https:\/\/austinstartup.com\/2012\/09\/larry-chiang-startup-academy-stanford-university-lcsasu-is-at-ut\/<\/a><\/div>\n
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Take another 9:59 and write down every hashtag. Then tweet or text it to me. For example, “#EUBM”. It’s all super easy to execute. But wayyyyy easier not to do the things that don’t scale.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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