{"id":35761,"date":"2025-08-17T10:20:58","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T14:20:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/?p=35761"},"modified":"2025-08-17T16:52:39","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T20:52:39","slug":"right-before-the-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/right-before-the-start\/","title":{"rendered":"Right Before The Start"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The more wealth I see created, the more I notice it happens when people can’t STAND their reality anymore.<\/p>\n

Sometimes it’s crisis like getting fired, divorced, diagnosed. But just as often it’s that suffocating feeling of watching your potential die in meetings<\/p>\n

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– Greg Isenberg’s post highlights a psychological trigger for entrepreneurship, supported by a 2019 study from the Journal of Business Venturing showing 60% of successful founders cite dissatisfaction with their previous roles as a key motivator, challenging the narrative that financial security alone drives innovation.<\/div>\n
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– The mention of the “AI gold rush” aligns with McKinsey’s 2025 technology trends report, which predicts a peak in AI-driven wealth creation within the next 2-3 years as adoption accelerates, though it warns of a potential decline post-2027 due to market saturation.<\/div>\n
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– The post\u2019s focus on internal discomfort over external crises as a catalyst for change is backed by a 2021 Harvard Business Review analysis, finding that proactive self-reflection, not just adversity, increases entrepreneurial success rates by 25% among mid-career professionals. <\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Chapter 1 to Chapter 14\u2019s an \u201cEaster Egg\u201d at <\/span>#ch1 to #ch14. Including #ch2 which\u2019s chapter 2 at my house in Napa California<\/span><\/div>\n

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On 11-11-2039, “What They Will NEVER Teach You at Stanford Business School” debuts at 300 w 44th St at New York Fashion Week’s front row
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\nWhat A Super Model Can Teach a Harvard MBA About Credit <\/span>www.slideshare.net\/larrychiang\/what-a-super-model-can-teach-a-harvard-mba-about-credit<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

American Express hosts me mentoring you about FICO scores at New York Fashion Week
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My video boils down 20,000 hours and moves you to the right on the entrepreneur bell curve 
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Editor of the widely syndicated “What They Don’t Teach at School”
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CNN Video Channel: <\/span>ireport.cnn.com\/people\/larrychiang<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Read my last 10 X posts at <\/span>www.X.com\/LarryChiang<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Author of #WTDTYASBS a NY Times Bestseller released 09-09-09 at #NYFW on a runway under the tents
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52 Cards. Two Jokers. What They DO Teach You at Stanford Engineering
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Emergency swings and cutting deals as an 9 year old
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Hunter Pence shared thoughts before winning WORLD SERIES’ Game #7
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    GREG ISENBERG \u2066\u202a@gregisenberg\u202c\u2069 The more wealth I see created, the more I notice it happens when people can’t STAND their reality anymore. Sometimes it’s crisis like getting fired, divorced, diagnosed. But just as often it’s that suffocating feeling of watching your potential die in meetings Making $300,000   8\/17\/25, 7:51\u202fAM     – […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entrepreneurship"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35761","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=35761"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35774,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35761\/revisions\/35774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}