{"id":2812,"date":"2014-10-10T13:42:14","date_gmt":"2014-10-10T17:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/?p=2812"},"modified":"2014-11-10T15:03:59","modified_gmt":"2014-11-10T19:03:59","slug":"what-mark-cuban-wants-you-to-do-so-he-can-just-meet-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/what-mark-cuban-wants-you-to-do-so-he-can-just-meet-winners\/","title":{"rendered":"What Mark Cuban Wants You To Do (So He Can Just Meet Winners)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Larry Chiang&#8217;s internship series at Stanford was called &#8220;How to Get Three Legendary Internships in a Row&#8221;. As CEO of Duck9, he encourages college student <a href=\"https:\/\/www.101secrets.com\/general-population-credit-knowledge.htm\" target=\"_blank\">entrepreneurs at Stanford and beyond to get a FICO<\/a> over 740 so we can all self-fund. After a Harvard Law School keynote, Harvard Business wrote: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.harbus.org\/2009\/What-They-Dont-Teach-4531\/\" target=\"_blank\">What They Don\u2019t Teach You at Stanford Business School<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<table style=\"height: 155px;\" width=\"156\" cellpadding=\"10\" align=\"left\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"100\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/videoseries?list=PLF8p6dOYbVkwnyIOreOUGkPivgl0ldTJh?version=3&amp;rel=1&amp;fs=1&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;wmode=transparent\" width=\"260\" height=\"183\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/span><br \/>\nPaid internships sometimes pay millions.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);\">#bitlymcuban710c<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><span style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);\">By Larry Chiang<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Networking can be done right there on your smartphone.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Accelerated networking isn&#8217;t a new app or social network. It is old school. The old fashion way to &#8220;level up&#8221; is to read a li&#8217;l, do a li&#8217;l, re-read<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>And then redo<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>People like Mr. Mark are inundated with networking requests. He just wants to meet the winners and filter out the 63,010 losers<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>If you want to do. Lets #cs183do [I am DJ-ing two Mark Cuban blog posts in with CS 183 and CS 183b {it&#8217;s free &#8220;How to Start a Startup&#8221;}]<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>(Remember, embedding tweets was a lot of work for me \ud83d\ude42<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>PROBLEM: 63,030 take a free class. 63,010 will generate exactly zero sales revenue<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Solution: impress the Stanford professor without a bachelors degree, Sam Altman, CS 183b prof, by doing what professor Sam glossed over and Mark Cuban blogged:<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<table style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); border: 1px solid black; padding: 8px;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"bottom\">\n<td width=\"48\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 48px; height: 48px; padding-right: 8px;\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/3411684931\/bd26194fa93733b624ec22966dbdb9d9_normal.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/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\/520621371437506560\">10\/10\/14, 10:06 AM<\/a><\/div>\n<div>Mark Cuban said &#8220;Make Money as a Student&#8221;. So if u want money: execute\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OqiWSPh0yd\">bit.ly\/mcuban710<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/871dwBamJx\">blogmaverick.com\/2012\/02\/29\/mak\u2026<\/a><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Sam said in his recommended CS 183B readings, &#8220;Early founder success had early revenue.&#8221; [See lecture 2]<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Secretly practice using a pseudonym or be your real self.<\/div>\n<div>\n<div style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);\">\n<table style=\"border: 1px solid black; padding: 8px;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"bottom\">\n<td width=\"48\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 48px; height: 48px; padding-right: 8px;\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/3411684931\/bd26194fa93733b624ec22966dbdb9d9_normal.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/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\/520620453912932353\">10\/10\/14, 10:02 AM<\/a><\/div>\n<div>Buy-sell discontinued &#8220;Power cord, Braun 7030458&#8221; for Braun shavers discontinued 2011\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/iaJIMQerlL\">bit.ly\/mcuban710b<\/a><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>THIS IS SOOOOO EASY<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);\">Old people can&#8217;t google<\/div>\n<div style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);\">They can&#8217;t google part numbers and then match with their needs because part numbers are obfuscated<\/div>\n<div style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);\">Don&#8217;t Belieber me?! Paul Graham (PG&#8217;s) startup school 2008 speech Subj &#8220;Octopart&#8221; (link for me to his Kresge auditorium speech? cc <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/jlivingston714\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/jlivingston714<\/a>)<\/div>\n<div style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);\">Don&#8217;t believe me?! Roelof Botha and Hunter Walk and Marissa Mayer were @2014 Disrupt &#8212; they judged PartsPic<\/div>\n<div style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);\">Don&#8217;t believe me?! See&#8230;<\/div>\n<div style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/mcuban710a\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/mcuban710a<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);\">Here is what I reverse engineered.<\/div>\n<div style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);\">Summarized in a tweet.<\/div>\n<table style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); border: 1px solid black; padding: 8px;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"bottom\">\n<td width=\"48\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 48px; height: 48px; padding-right: 8px;\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/3411684931\/bd26194fa93733b624ec22966dbdb9d9_normal.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/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\/520618232370429952\">10\/10\/14, 9:53 AM<\/a><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/37D3oSMra4\">bit.ly\/mcuban710a<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/iaJIMQerlL\">bit.ly\/mcuban710b<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9s4vUhHwIn\">bit.ly\/mcuban710c<\/a><br \/>\nTodo 4 u: take<br \/>\nbitly\/\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/@mcuban\">@mcuban<\/a>\u00a0710<br \/>\nsell Power Cords<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/search.twitter.com\/search?q=#PopUpInternship\">#PopUpInternship<\/a><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><br style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);\" \/><span style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);\">Do d<\/span><span style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);\">ownload<\/span><\/p>\n<table 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); border: 1px solid black; padding: 8px;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"bottom\">\n<td width=\"48\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 48px; height: 48px; padding-right: 8px;\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/3411684931\/bd26194fa93733b624ec22966dbdb9d9_normal.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/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\/520621907671252993\">10\/10\/14, 10:08 AM<\/a><\/div>\n<div>Mark Cuban said: &#8220;Dont follow your passion. Follow your effort&#8221;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wbNPQXE75d\">bit.ly\/mcuban711<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xI0CS7RtrU\">blogmaverick.com\/2012\/03\/18\/don\u2026<\/a><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><br 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);\" \/><span style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);\">The idea is the beat out 63,010 other people and jump to the right side of the bell curve<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 17px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eudADPfTWiE&amp;feature=youtube_gdata_player\"><embed src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/eudADPfTWiE&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 17px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 17px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);\">Some specifics\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<table style=\"border: 1px solid black; padding: 8px;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"bottom\">\n<td width=\"48\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 48px; height: 48px; padding-right: 8px;\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/3411684931\/bd26194fa93733b624ec22966dbdb9d9_normal.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/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\/520619656793845760\">10\/10\/14, 9:59 AM<\/a><\/div>\n<div>The effort of &#8220;Braun Power Cord&#8221; Based on a Search Arbitrage Hack <a href=\"https:\/\/search.twitter.com\/search?q=#PopUpInternship\">#PopUpInternship<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/37D3oSMra4\">bit.ly\/mcuban710a<\/a><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Problem: Braun does not manufacture replacement parts<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Solution: Sell at a huge margin inventory that you do not have to own until you sell it.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Get your li&#8217;l founder notebook out and re read. Re note takeThis is an example of a sequel post to &#8220;Do things that don&#8217;t scale&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/pgrahamCh6\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/pgrahamCh6<\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>But what PG will blog next is\u00a0<span style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);\">&#8220;Do things that don&#8217;t scale but have MOMENTUM&#8221;. It&#8217;s on twitter, my extrapolations are, and they&#8217;re curated \/ Extrapolated and my notes are &#8220;#DTTDSBHM&#8221; (SOURCE: lecture 3, cs183B<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"EFA5A12E-71E4-4526-AF46-6D91350E4D65\" src=\"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/image5.jpeg\" alt=\"image.jpeg\" \/><span style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Larry Chiang&#8217;s internship series at Stanford was called &#8220;How to Get Three Legendary Internships in a Row&#8221;. As CEO of Duck9, he encourages college student entrepreneurs at Stanford and beyond to get a FICO over 740 so we can all self-fund. After a Harvard Law School keynote, Harvard Business wrote: \u201cWhat They Don\u2019t Teach You [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internships","category-venture-capital"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2812","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=2812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2812\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}