{"id":3912,"date":"2015-03-20T12:55:49","date_gmt":"2015-03-20T16:55:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/?p=3912"},"modified":"2015-03-20T12:56:50","modified_gmt":"2015-03-20T16:56:50","slug":"playing-the-facebook-game-hurts-your-yc-startup-9-ways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/playing-the-facebook-game-hurts-your-yc-startup-9-ways\/","title":{"rendered":"Playing the Facebook Game Hurts Your YC Startup 9 Ways"},"content":{"rendered":"
By Larry Chiang<\/p>\n
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Tim Chang (no relation LOL) gave a keynote about Gamification. He spoke on using your smartphone as a remote control for the real world. Well, that stuck because that’s cool. But YC kids are GETTING remote controlled. <\/div>\n
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If you’re 18-26 in YC you’re a kid. If you’re older than 30 you’re a dinosaur   I wanted to call this “Facebook’s Surprising Entrepreneur Undertow Surprises No One at My Level”<\/span><\/p>\n

Let’s keep the title as the focus…,<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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3\/20\/15, 8:12 AM<\/a><\/div>\n
Playing the fB “game”, hurts your real world startup effort in 9 very specific ways cc @timechange<\/a> #Gamification<\/a>
Smartphone as remote. #Ch6<\/a><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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3\/20\/15, 8:13 AM<\/a><\/div>\n
Sales friction is real enough that you don’t need the friction of a fB fan page that kinda doesn’t convert #Ch6<\/a><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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3\/20\/15, 8:15 AM<\/a><\/div>\n
Your superstar mentor ( @BobMetcalfe<\/a> @tjkosnik<\/a> ) doesn’t wanna be fB friends rt away. But they still wanna professor U #Ch5<\/a><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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3\/20\/15, 8:18 AM<\/a><\/div>\n
Take the fB “stalking” you do as a girl and multiply it 100x if we are to co-founder up #dttdsBHM<\/a>. PG.YC.
#ch4<\/a>
#ch5<\/a>
#ch6<\/a>
#sxsw<\/a> #ch9<\/a><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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3\/20\/15, 8:20 AM<\/a><\/div>\n
The fB messaging ratios are 1:1. <\/p>\n

That’s not how I hit 28 inflection pts
The mentee mentor messaging ratios are 5:1 at first. 5+ per #ch5<\/a><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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3\/20\/15, 8:23 AM<\/a><\/div>\n
Facebook, fB, messaging ratios are 1:1 w cohorts. <\/p>\n

Kids panic when even one message is unrequited 
Networking #Ch4<\/a>
Mentorship #ch5<\/a><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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3\/20\/15, 8:25 AM<\/a><\/div>\n
Starting startups are hard. Its front end loaded. I’ve commented 30+ times on a single fB<\/p>\n

Startups are about starting #ch9<\/a> Entrepreneurship<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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3\/20\/15, 8:29 AM<\/a><\/div>\n
Lol @sgblank<\/a>‘s “customer development” doesn’t work by friend requesting randoms. #ch6<\/a>
Get out of the bldng. Get off fB #ch4<\/a><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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3\/20\/15, 8:33 AM<\/a><\/div>\n
Promotion work
Starting work
Attacking getting a beachhead work
…isn’t fB work 
Sales work 
#EUTWMPPM<\/a> is easy but monotonous #ch6<\/a><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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3\/20\/15, 8:37 AM<\/a><\/div>\n
PG stressed and re-stressed, “do things that don’t scale (BHM)”. Lec3, #CS183B<\/a>. YC kids R wired in fB construct & mind-set #dttdsBHM<\/a><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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3\/20\/15, 8:40 AM<\/a><\/div>\n
NLP 
You can’t run that game on fB!
Neuro
Linguistic
Programming
Grinder and Bandler and Robbins are my mentors<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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3\/20\/15, 8:42 AM<\/a><\/div>\n
People booty fB each other!<\/p>\n

Being able to land ass using the fB Friction Free Ass Model is great for booty. Bad for biz #ch6<\/a> 
#Gamification<\/a><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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3\/20\/15, 8:46 AM<\/a><\/div>\n
Voice calling
Voice mailing
Receptionist hacking
Phone tree hackin
#fsRocks<\/a> conf room-2-room sales calls
LOST Arts bc fB!
(& Cell # getting!<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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3\/20\/15, 8:48 AM<\/a><\/div>\n
On fB everyone is a star<\/p>\n

Being a star keeps you from starting a twitter account where 2’ll fllw U.
Friction to executing #LTMVTA<\/a> <\/p>\n

#ch9<\/a><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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3\/20\/15, 8:51 AM<\/a><\/div>\n
fB keeps you from selling old, rich, alpha, fossils via email bc people eff up CC, BCC<\/p>\n

I blame “fB booty call with no calling req’d” #ch7<\/a><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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3\/20\/15, 8:57 AM<\/a><\/div>\n
Entrepreneurship, the enormous task of starting a startup is a pride swallowing experience
fB dissuades u bc 0 like u doing PG’s #dttdsBHM<\/a><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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3\/20\/15, 9:02 AM<\/a><\/div>\n
A vector is a direction + magnitude. fB is verrrrry ADD <\/p>\n

Focus is tough on any founder
Execution is tough. fB gives no positive feedback<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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3\/20\/15, 9:03 AM<\/a><\/div>\n
On fB, I pattern recognize many to be a hawt girl, MBA2. Dangerous bc we hot girls di-worse-ify bc FB pulls us 15 popular “vectors”<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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3\/20\/15, 9:05 AM<\/a><\/div>\n
Fb causes potential founders to juxtapose telephone number sequence and email address, addie<\/p>\n

Memorizing is a brain muscle
So’s focus<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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3\/20\/15, 9:07 AM<\/a><\/div>\n
Fb encourages IM gestalt patterns in the text messaging world. It alienates the fossils who run the economy. Old white dudes like me.<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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3\/20\/15, 9:10 AM<\/a><\/div>\n
Fb blows up phones with notifications more than when I sold a billion dollar startup that I did not own<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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3\/20\/15, 9:14 AM<\/a><\/div>\n
Screaming into an abyss w\/o reciprocity = startup starting. #ch6<\/a> #Ch9<\/a> <\/p>\n

On fB, if you don’t get 33 likes “I’m removing that ppic”<\/p><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Larry Chiang Tim Chang (no relation LOL) gave a keynote about Gamification. He spoke on using your smartphone as a remote control for the real world. Well, that stuck because that’s cool. But YC kids are GETTING remote controlled.  If you’re 18-26 in YC you’re a kid. If you’re older than 30 you’re a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3912","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=3912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3912\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}