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Larry Chiang teaches at a school that he could not get into and wrote a sequel to a book he read and re-read<\/a> one time too many. He edits the Bloomberg BusinessWeek channel \u201cWhat They Don\u2019t Teach You at Business School\u201d. After speaking at a school in the Boston area, Harvard Business wrote: \u201cWhat They Don\u2019t Teach You at Stanford Business School<\/a>\u201c (the same title as his NY Times bestseller). He launched his book at a fashion show in NY called Mercedes Benz Fashion Week and wrote, \u201cWhat a Supermodel Can Teach a Stanford MBA<\/a>\u201d. If you liked “9 VCs You’re Gonna Want to Avoid<\/a>” and \u201cHow to Get Man-Charm<\/a>\u201d, you will like his latest post:<\/p>\n

The Minimum Viable Blog Post<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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By Larry Chiang<\/a><\/p>\n

The pillar of my effort to get distribution rests on MVBP. The Minimum Viable Blog Post.<\/p>\n

Eric Ries has ‘Minimum Viable Product’. I have The Minimum Viable Blog Post. It is uses my 3, 2, 1 formula for blogging.<\/p>\n

3 paragraphs, 2 pictures, 1 focus.
\n12 sentences total.<\/p>\n

I argue that doing perfect work is tough.
\nI argue that having gotten it done and out into the wild is 100x better.<\/p>\n

My book has a picture of the Stanford map with Sharpie writing.<\/p>\n

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An example MVBP is Kiran Divvala. I met him when I spoke at MIT Sloan.
\nhttps:\/\/kdivvela.posterous.com\/3-paragraphs-12-sentences-2-pictures-1-focus<\/a><\/p>\n

Another example is Jeff Lawrence. He was my student in ENGR145
\nhttps:\/\/larrychiangexperiment.wordpress.com\/tag\/jeff-lawrence-larry-chiang-experiment-granular-social-data-analytics-lab\/<\/a><\/p>\n