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# Harvard Business School  <\/div>\n
**What They Don\u2019t Teach You at Harvard Business School About Search Funds & Entrepreneurship-Through-Acquisition**  <\/div>\n
**Course Number: section X <\/div>\n
**Professor: Larry Chiang (Visiting Entrepreneur-in-Residence, MIT)**  <\/div>\n
**Spring Term \u2013 20 Sessions (no safe spaces, no trigger warnings)**  <\/div>\n
**Room: The one they will named the Mark Marquess Center For Cold Calling Rando 5 Diamonds**<\/div>\n
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### Mandatory Pre-Readings (or get publicly humiliated on the first callout in lecture hall)<\/div>\n
– Four Steps to the Epiphany \u2013 Steve Blank  <\/div>\n
– Crossing the Chasm \u2013 Geoffrey Moore  <\/div>\n
– Business Model Generation \u2013 Alex Osterwalder  <\/div>\n
– What They Don\u2019t Teach You at Harvard Business School \u2013 Mark McCormack (#WTDTYAHBS)  <\/div>\n
– New Ventures, 5th AND 6th editions (yes, both \u2014 watch it get worse in real time)  <\/div>\n
– Never trade your Harvard MBA for one-location franchise (memorize this sentence)<\/div>\n
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### The Real 20-Lecture Syllabus (transcribed exactly from the latest Larry Chiang on the back of Liberty Hotel cocktail napkin, sex stains and all)<\/div>\n
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1. It doesnt take money to make money.  <\/div>\n
2. \u201cSoftware ate PE-VC\u201d (pages 128, 129, 130, 131, 161 of something)  <\/div>\n
3. ALL BUSINESSES DIE  <\/div>\n
4. Editing An Existing Business  <\/div>\n
5. 5 case STUDIES game = LiSt Far Co started ria #externalAPI  <\/div>\n
6. Playbook Plays + history  <\/div>\n
7. Board of Directors, Auxilliary  <\/div>\n
8. 2 interns & 1 Section X\u2019er  <\/div>\n
9. 2 girls, 1 cup of Knowledge  <\/div>\n
10. Interrogation.  <\/div>\n
11. Fail at Raising A Search Fund… Win ANYWAY  <\/div>\n
12. Turning Around #hbs6452 swe while TURN-AROUND #chall  <\/div>\n
13. Edition 5, Lec 11, #chal7 #stramgt353  <\/div>\n
14. #WTDTYAHBS, they Used To Teach At H. B.S.  <\/div>\n
15. And DID at Stanford: 2009\u20132013. Lec 11, #swe277p E U.C. Irvine Lec| “Man-In-The-Middle” Attack  <\/div>\n
16. Collect MASSIVE #LeadGen **$**  <\/div>\n
17. Go On Lecture Circuit Pandering #ENGR145 #cs183fanfe  <\/div>\n
18. joke: “Softwage Engineering Masters in P.E.”  <\/div>\n
19. HoW To Do What #HBS6542swe \/ Vanderbilt 6534 Do Without Having To Pay Vandy \/ G.S.B.  <\/div>\n
20. wharton\/ #cha65 Snowball Columbia\/ Free Vacation To Omaha<\/div>\n
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### Grading (100% binary)<\/div>\n
– Pass = You leave HBS with a 9-figure deal<\/div>\n
– Fail = You paid $270k to learn how to buy a single-unit Econolodge<\/div>\n
– audit = You think search funds are \u201cthe lowest-risk form of entrepreneurship\u201d because it doesn\u2019t take money to make money<\/div>\n
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### Office Hours<\/div>\n
Four Seasons 6:00am -7:11am<\/div>\n
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This syllabus will be paste copied by the Dean just the the syllabus Arthur C Rock April 24-26, 2025<\/div>\n
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That\u2019s exactly why it works. <\/div>\n
Chapter 14\u2019s an \u201cEaster Egg\u201d at <\/span>#ch1 to #ch14. Including #ch2 which\u2019s chapter 2 at my hotel in Napa California<\/span><\/div>\n
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On 09-09-39, “What They Will NEVER Teach You at Stanford Business School” debuts at 300 w 44th St at New York Fashion Week’s front row
http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QXIaNZi3mHQ<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

What A Super Model Can Teach a Harvard MBA About Credit www.slideshare.net\/larrychiang\/what-a-super-model-can-teach-a-harvard-mba-about-credit<\/a><\/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 
http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eudADPfTWiE<\/span>
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Steve Jobs Texted me on 650-283-8008 in the same way that Mr Jobs called Bill Hewlett <\/span>https:\/\/x.com\/superSaiyanSkai\/status\/1941392367304761636\/video\/1<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n

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Larry Chiang<\/span><\/div>\n
Fund of Founders<\/div>\n
Founding Stanford EIR<\/div>\n
@duck9 alum, Deeply Understood Capital Credit Chinese Knowledge 9<\/div>\n
Solo Founder Uber API<\/div>\n
650-566-9600 Office<\/div>\n
650-566-9696 Direct<\/div>\n
Cell: 415-720-8500 <\/div>\n

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Editor of the widely syndicated “What They Don’t Teach at School”
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CNN Video Channel: ireport.cnn.com\/people\/larrychiang<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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

Author of #WTDTYASBS a NY Times Bestseller released 09-09-09 at #NYFW on a runway under the tents
whattheydontteachyouatstanfordbusinessschool.com\/blog\/?s=Ny+times+bestseller<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

www.fastcompany.com\/embed\/c0d4562ea2049<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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
http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=OFGY7v9C4G0<\/span><\/p>\n

Hunter Pence shared thoughts before winning WORLD SERIES’ Game #7
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