{"id":26863,"date":"2024-06-03T15:41:34","date_gmt":"2024-06-03T19:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/?p=26863"},"modified":"2024-06-03T17:09:24","modified_gmt":"2024-06-03T21:09:24","slug":"d-distribution-doing-things-that-dont-scale-and-but-surprisingly-have-a-shit-ton-of-momentum-at-zero-work-there-is-zero-momentum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/d-distribution-doing-things-that-dont-scale-and-but-surprisingly-have-a-shit-ton-of-momentum-at-zero-work-there-is-zero-momentum\/","title":{"rendered":"D, Distribution doing things that don\u2019t scale and but surprisingly have a shit ton of momentum. At zero work there is zero momentum."},"content":{"rendered":"
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My mentor Paul Graham, says, \u201cdo things that don\u2019t scale, but have momentum\u201d<\/div>\n
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Paul Graham famously wrote an article called do things that don\u2019t scale <\/div>\n
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What he means by that is to bring in customers by burning a lot of time trying to bring in new customers for your start up.  at first it\u2019s going to seem like your startup will never scale. Momentum when you\u2019re at zero customers will be zero momentum<\/div>\n
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As computer science majors, I used Larry Chiang\u2019s signature business protocol to be able to \u201cdo things that don\u2019t scale, and later get a shit ton of momentum\u201d. Lecture one to 20 #CS183D<\/div>\n
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Paul Graham\u2019s lecture never talked about \u201cDo Things That Don\u2019t Scale\u201d <\/p>\n

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The way that women attempt distribution is understandable given their circumstances. <\/p>\n

But men have no excuse in \u201cdoing things that do not scale, But Have Momentum\u201d #dttdsBHM<\/a>. <\/p>\n

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    Larry Chiang, 650-283-8008 \u2066\u202a@LarryChiang\u202c\u2069 #DTTDSbhm Do Things That Don\u2019t Scale BUT HAVE MOMENTUM \u2066\u202a@paulg\u202c\u2069 had a lecture on #cs183b Lec 3. But #dttds was sooo painful that he didn\u2019t speak of it until Question #13. Then, the lecture title was changed postmortem. @davidgomez__ pic.twitter.com\/TVp8aQV8xQ   3\/28\/21, 8:31\u202fPM     My mentor Paul Graham, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26864,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stanford-entrepreneurship"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26863","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=26863"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26891,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26863\/revisions\/26891"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}