{"id":3670,"date":"2015-02-11T13:57:34","date_gmt":"2015-02-11T17:57:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/?p=3670"},"modified":"2015-02-13T11:34:02","modified_gmt":"2015-02-13T15:34:02","slug":"avoid-and-duck-chap-9-bankruptcy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/avoid-and-duck-chap-9-bankruptcy\/","title":{"rendered":"Avoid and Duck Chap 9 Bankruptcy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Larry Chiang&#8217;s 6th book, &#8220;What They Will NEVER Teach You at Stanford Business School <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ejeIz4EhoJ0\" target=\"_blank\">WTWNTYASBS&#8221;<\/a>, will launch 11-11-19 in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Wjsp6XV5S0o\" target=\"_blank\">photo-booth<\/a> like the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0ZegqjCrV_0\" target=\"_blank\">Tresemme two-story tradeshow booth<\/a> New York Fashion Week. As CEO of Duck9, he leads an army to help college student <a href=\"https:\/\/www.101secrets.com\/general-population-credit-knowledge.htm\" target=\"_blank\">consumers get a FICO<\/a> over 770. Post H.L.S. 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>&#8221; (his latest post: &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/entrepreneurship\/setting-an-intention-for-your-sxsw-practice-at-yoga-journal-conference\/\" target=\"_blank\">Setting an intention for SXSWi<\/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\/tzcyeJtosig?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 \/>\nNY Fashion Week is just like the Mom&#8217;s Day Fashion Show. Instead of the &#8216;Union&#8217;, its held at Lincoln Center<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>By Larry Chiang<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I think I swallowed the Paul Graham mantra &#8220;Do things that don&#8217;t scale but have momentum&#8221;.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>So much so that I made a hashtag of my effort #DTTDSBHM. Well, bankruptcy breaks hearts. I&#8217;m ceo of duck9 with a bio that is so awesome, it seems fake. So when I say I&#8217;m a duck and avoid bankruptcy &#8220;expert&#8221;, I really mean mutha scratchin&#8217; guru. My mentees do super well<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I&#8217;m bored.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>So, now I do the seemingly impossible: reassembling the broken gingerbread man. Putting Humpty Dumpty back together after the YC team quit and stopped answering emails (&amp; and responding to at-replies about promised CS 183b deliverables)<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/image29.jpeg\" alt=\"image.jpeg\" id=\"37354E5A-708B-44BF-83D2-738B70AEFC2B\"><\/div>\n<div>Broken cookie heart photo credit: Larry Chiang, NYFW Supermodel<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Hobby that levers credit expertise:<\/p>\n<table style=\"border:1px solid black;padding:8px;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"bottom\">\n<td width=\"48\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/3411684931\/bd26194fa93733b624ec22966dbdb9d9_normal.jpeg\" style=\"width:48px;height:48px;padding-right:8px;\"><\/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\/565565572872540160\">2\/11\/15, 9:38 AM<\/a><\/div>\n<div>&#8216;The Broken Heart&#8217; \ud83d\ude41 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FkLllsR70M\"><span>facebook.com\/photo.php?fbid\u2026<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">While I can&#8217;t mend a broken lovelorn heart, I can fix your chap 9 BK startup.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica; min-height: 13.8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Your startup, now in the ashes, is as good as when it was a twinkle at The Playa or\/and south by. Or\/and The Crunchies 2010. You&#8217;ve seen and stalked dozens of my genius &#8220;signature business maneuvers&#8221;. For teenager Jesus&#8217; sake, all awkward and gangly but omnipotent and awesome, LETS EXECUTE PLAN #9<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica; min-height: 13.8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Chap 9 bankruptcy happens when a VC repo&#8217;d (repossess and repossessed your startup like a delinquent car loan :-). Aka you were fired. Chap 9 is also ABC (assignment for Benefit of Creditors.&nbsp;It&#8217;s where your startup is so worthless that paperwork for a BK is too expensive versus your assets.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica; min-height: 13.8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: Helvetica;\">I&#8217;m bored. Highly intelligent. Motivated. Super smart. You complete, You.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Download the official YouTube app to see #ENGR145&#8217;s anchor video. Engineering 145 based video moves you from bankrupt zero to hero. You&#8217;re welcome&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 17px; -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); \"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 17px; -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); \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WVKHwYJzVVc&amp;feature=youtube_gdata_player\"><embed width='425' height='344' allowfullscreen='true' allowscriptaccess='always' type='application\/x-shockwave-flash' src='https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/WVKHwYJzVVc&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1' \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Crossing<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>The<\/div>\n<div>Chasm<\/div>\n<div>From<\/div>\n<div>The<\/div>\n<div>Right&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>is free from trademark or copyright or patents both foreign and domestic. Stanford and YC are going &#8220;protectionist&#8221;. The third and best remaining institution of Silicon Valley, ME, is all open source, all awesome<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Larry Chiang = cell 650-283-8008. Cuz Larry @<a href=\"https:\/\/duck9.com\">duck9.com<\/a> has a hilarious Bounceback message with my real number.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Plot spoiler:<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/image30.jpeg\" alt=\"image.jpeg\" id=\"C25EEF55-EE9E-42BC-A711-000DB600D4C6\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Larry Chiang&#8217;s 6th book, &#8220;What They Will NEVER Teach You at Stanford Business School WTWNTYASBS&#8221;, will launch 11-11-19 in a photo-booth like the Tresemme two-story tradeshow booth New York Fashion Week. As CEO of Duck9, he leads an army to help college student consumers get a FICO over 770. 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