{"id":3288,"date":"2014-12-18T16:05:36","date_gmt":"2014-12-18T20:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/?p=3288"},"modified":"2014-12-18T16:06:27","modified_gmt":"2014-12-18T20:06:27","slug":"seemingly-conflicting-startup-advice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/seemingly-conflicting-startup-advice\/","title":{"rendered":"Seemingly Conflicting Startup Advice"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By LARRY CHIANG<\/span><\/div>\n
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As the great curator of OPA (other people’s advice), I’m here to tell you YC advice is not in conflict. It’s just out of order<\/div>\n
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In the same spirit and “Makers Schedule versus Managers schedule”…, I PRESENT “THE PRE ENTREPRENEUR, PRE YC APPLICANT SCHEDULE (this also solves PG’s issue with “People always looking for the TRICK” in Lecture 3. CS 183b)<\/div>\n
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“What they DO teach you at YC, (but don’t put in order!)” YC = y- Combinator.<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n


If you’re a late Winter ’14 app, you should text me 1-650-283-8008 and see the application’s slogan: “Make Something People Want”<\/span><\/div>\n


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Paul Buchheit said “Sell it before you make it” https:\/\/bit.ly\/pbuchheit710<\/a><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n

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So before you get approved as a VIP applicant that doesn’t even apply… Master any of the ten tweets where I curate the advice: “Do Things That Dont Scale (but have momentum)” at #dttdsBHM <\/span>the official Twitter app <\/span>here<\/a><\/div>\n
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12\/8\/14, 8:47 AM<\/a><\/div>\n
Startups Need to Focus on Sales, Not Marketing #dttdsBHM<\/a> bit.ly\/jlivingston710<\/a><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n


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Did you realize there is a bell curve?!<\/div>\n
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Omg, “No YC partner has a GSB, MBA degree.”<\/p>\n

This can’t be correct
I’ll fact check @a<\/a> holiday party<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n


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How Paul Graham would benefit from a Stanford MBA: #p584<\/a> Professor Grousbeck’s book
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Page 584 spoke of where VC Vinod Khosla send out 400 sales letters as an engineer at Stanford. <\/div>\n

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Ditto Bill Gurley with his pre populated Palm Pilot full of industry contacts <\/div>\n
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ENGR145’s two anchor videos move you to the right on the entrepreneur bell curve <\/div>\n
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