{"id":4144,"date":"2015-05-02T13:52:30","date_gmt":"2015-05-02T17:52:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/?p=4144"},"modified":"2015-05-22T11:04:26","modified_gmt":"2015-05-22T15:04:26","slug":"larry-chiang-crashing-parties-lecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/larry-chiang-crashing-parties-lecture\/","title":{"rendered":"Larry Chiang &#8220;Crashing Parties&#8221; Lecture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Larry Chiang&#8217;s 5th book, What They Don&#8217;t Teach You At Stanford Business School, launched after a Harvard Law School keynote on the New York Fashion Week runway 09-09-2009. He knows how to sniff out grand openings and crashed them with his dog Baxter. As CEO of Duck9, he spearheads to effort to get college <a href=\"https:\/\/www.101secrets.com\/general-population-credit-knowledge.htm\" target=\"_blank\">consumers get a FICO<\/a> over 750. 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 last Austin themed post was done #shirtless in &#8220;Larry Chiang <a href=\"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/entrepreneurship\/setting-an-intention-for-your-sxsw-practice-at-yoga-journal-conference\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sets an intention for SXSW<\/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\/QXIaNZi3mHQ?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 has supermodels getting a high FICO credit score because I supermodel on-the-side<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>AUSTIN Texas<\/div>\n<p>By Larry Chiang, co-founder #UTeWeek<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>Note: It might sound like a joke, but everything below (while funny), is 100% seriously true<\/div>\n<p>I wanted to call this post &#8220;How to go from Crasher to VIP. And speak at a conference you&#8217;re crashing&#8221;. But that signature business recipe is not very popular \ud83d\ude09<img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BC959AD5-E667-4461-9B25-5AF7231FCCE2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/image5.jpeg\" alt=\"image.jpeg\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>Steve Perry, rock legend, crashed me on to the SF giants team bus. His song is &#8220;Don&#8217;t stop BELIEVING&#8221;. Lol, the bus was beelining to the team hotel Intercontinental, but dropped me at the Westin!! People were like, &#8220;Who is this 6&#8217;5&#8243; asian we are dropping off at the ESPN hotel?&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>If you&#8217;re curious, &#8220;crasher to VIP&#8217;s&#8221; GuaGuaGuacamole Recipe #4 Re crasher to VIP. \u00a0There are 22 GuaGuaGuacamole recipes that reverse engineer &#8216;signature business recipes&#8217; that my mentor, Mark McCormack taught me.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Let us start with an examination of how one of Palo Alto Community&#8217;s College&#8217;s students did it.<\/p>\n<table style=\"border: 1px solid black; padding: 8px;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"bottom\">\n<td width=\"48\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 48px; height: 48px; padding-right: 8px;\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/3411684931\/bd26194fa93733b624ec22966dbdb9d9_normal.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/td>\n<td><b>Larry Chiang (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/larrychiang?refsrc=email&amp;s=11\">@LarryChiang<\/a>)<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\">\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/larrychiang\/status\/594516422828498945?refsrc=email&amp;s=11\">5\/2\/15, 7:58 AM<\/a><\/div>\n<div>Ok,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BobMetcalfe\">@BobMetcalfe<\/a>. I&#8217;ll guest lec a seminar on crashing. I&#8217;ll honor my cohort mentor &#8220;Dan Ha, CS Pac-12, bc he passed away and intro&#8217;d me to u<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>You see, I was at MIT doing a lecture and thought, &#8220;Lol, I&#8217;m bringing a rando coterm to MIT so that he can take over part of my lecture. I mean do u really wanna listen to me drone on for an hour?!&#8221; (Btw thx Douglas Huang Douglas Hwang, MBA president). Anyway, I thought Dan Ha could go to boston with me to<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>&#8211; co lecture<\/div>\n<div>&#8211; network with Harvard (lol I write there <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/vc0310b\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/vc0310b<\/a>)<\/div>\n<div>&#8211; network with MIT (lol, I&#8217;m EIR there)<\/div>\n<div>&#8211; help Harvard and MIT set up a StartX\/SSE labs.<\/div>\n<div>\n<table style=\"border: 1px solid black; padding: 8px;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"bottom\">\n<td width=\"48\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 48px; height: 48px; padding-right: 8px;\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/3411684931\/bd26194fa93733b624ec22966dbdb9d9_normal.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/td>\n<td><b>Larry Chiang (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/larrychiang?refsrc=email&amp;s=11\">@LarryChiang<\/a>)<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\">\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/larrychiang\/status\/594178467719053312?refsrc=email&amp;s=11\">5\/1\/15, 9:36 AM<\/a><\/div>\n<div>Last night I hung out with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BobMetcalfe\">@BobMetcalfe<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23LonghornDemoDay&amp;src=hash\">#LonghornDemoDay<\/a>. I met him as a direct result of Dan Ha,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StartX\">@StartX<\/a>\u00a0co-founder (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23RIP&amp;src=hash\">#RIP<\/a>\u00a0@iamdanHa 0:-)<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>So then this happened!!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>True story.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Dan Ha crashes me into two other conferences (NVCA and VC 65) and wrangles me into a Tim Draper keynote where Tim Draper shouts me out AND I GET A PIC WITH HIM!<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"D6D18847-CF57-48A7-AF22-91CC224D6FB5\" src=\"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/image.png\" alt=\"image.png\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>My Tim Draper moment was when he said, &#8220;You must love this, you&#8217;re everywhere<\/p>\n<table style=\"border: 1px solid black; padding: 8px;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"bottom\">\n<td width=\"48\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 48px; height: 48px; padding-right: 8px;\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/3411684931\/bd26194fa93733b624ec22966dbdb9d9_normal.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/td>\n<td><b>Larry Chiang (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/larrychiang?refsrc=email&amp;s=11\">@LarryChiang<\/a>)<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\">\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/larrychiang\/status\/594516422828498945?refsrc=email&amp;s=11\">5\/2\/15, 7:58 AM<\/a><\/div>\n<div>Ok,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BobMetcalfe\">@BobMetcalfe<\/a>. I&#8217;ll guest lec a seminar on crashing. I&#8217;ll honor my cohort mentor &#8220;Dan Ha, CS Pac-12, bc he passed away and intro&#8217;d me &#8230;<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"47082B70-7F44-4961-AAE1-31BA097968B5\" src=\"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/image1.png\" alt=\"image.png\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>Mike Arrington let me crash his new tv studio. Thank you Mike Arrington. This made Dan Ha&#8217;s highlight reel that abc news used. Dan&#8217;s not here to say &#8216;thx&#8217;, but I know he sees<\/div>\n<div>Let&#8217;s break down how Dan Ha crashes parties and venture capital conferences<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\/1\/ Dan Ha cold emails.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Before a party, Dan Ha emails &#8220;Wade Roush&#8221;. I remember that name because due to Dan&#8217;s cold email into the &#8220;VC 65&#8221; producer, I end up writing for Xconomy &#8220;7 things LP&#8217;s should be asking VCs and GP&#8217;s&#8221;. Cold emailing works. Text me <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/6502838008\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/6502838008<\/a> your email and I&#8217;ll ping back exactly how Dan Ha cold emails. Dan Ha would use his <a href=\"https:\/\/stanford.edu\">stanford.edu<\/a> email address which leads me to my next point&#8230;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\/2\/ Crashing as a student is easy<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Enough said<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\/3\/ Crash and Promise a better plus one.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>It is common to have a plus one who is a safety blanket that buffers. Don&#8217;t invite a plus one that&#8217;ll be baggage and mooch free food. Ideally, you&#8217;d bring a plus one that has gravitas. If one is not available to you, try to just grab a Larry chiang.<\/div>\n<div>\n<table style=\"border: 1px solid black; padding: 8px;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"bottom\">\n<td width=\"48\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 48px; height: 48px; padding-right: 8px;\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/3411684931\/bd26194fa93733b624ec22966dbdb9d9_normal.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/td>\n<td><b>Larry Chiang (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/larrychiang?refsrc=email&amp;s=11\">@LarryChiang<\/a>)<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\">\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/larrychiang\/status\/594529080772399104?refsrc=email&amp;s=11\">5\/2\/15, 8:49 AM<\/a><\/div>\n<div>At\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23vc65&amp;src=hash\">#vc65<\/a>, I met keynote speaker &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BobMetcalfe\">@BobMetcalfe<\/a>&#8220;. Bc StartX&#8217;s Dan Ha crashed me in (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23ENGR145&amp;src=hash\">#ENGR145<\/a>\u00a0alum)\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YdLmRI1YS5\">twitter.com\/iamdanHa<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23cs178&amp;src=hash\">#cs178<\/a>\/<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23cs378&amp;src=hash\">#cs378<\/a><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>I am seriously serious.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Dan Ha then crashed me into NVCA&#8217;s annual VC convention for VCs. This is before Rudy Garza became my solo LP for &#8220;Larry Chiang Stanford G51 Fund of Stanford Founders&#8221;. NVCA was at a Westin. I remember bc the staff knows me as the Westin heavenly bed model. Westin Copley has a nice pool and hot tub.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I crashed that hot tub<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I had to use my Le meridian Hotel connection to get access. That leads me to my next point<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"C0A57CEF-7961-4CB7-9700-D80DD668BDDF\" src=\"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/image6.jpeg\" alt=\"image.jpeg\" \/><\/div>\n<div>get an SPG card and Tweet<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\/4\/ spg is an Amex card attached to Starwood<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Westin hotel is Starwood<\/div>\n<div>W hotel is Starwood<\/div>\n<div>Le meredien is Starwood too<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"0845CC72-8859-42DA-BF0C-7DD4F7837103\" src=\"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/image7.jpeg\" alt=\"image.jpeg\" \/><\/div>\n<div>When I crashed Game #6 and Game #7, I stayed at the ESPN hotel. Aka the Kansas City Westin Hotel<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>When you&#8217;re crashing, it helps to have a great hotel as a base. Think of the Westin hotel Times Sq as your &#8220;base camp&#8221;. Crashing the &#8220;Mt Everest&#8221; of conferences &#8220;New York Fashion Week&#8221; is easy with me as your tour guide. All it takes is PRACTICE<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>{5} Practice crashing.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Btw, you have not texted me yet.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Practice crashing<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Practice setting up a &#8220;base camp&#8221;. Here are more free basecamps if you haven&#8217;t set up your free spg base<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211; twitter is a base camp. Tweet that you wanna crash, attend. Tweet you&#8217;d like to attend #LCFW<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Question: But Larry. I don&#8217;t have a twitter account.<\/div>\n<div>ANSWER:<\/div>\n<div>\n<table style=\"border: 1px solid black; padding: 8px;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"bottom\">\n<td width=\"48\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 48px; height: 48px; padding-right: 8px;\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/3411684931\/bd26194fa93733b624ec22966dbdb9d9_normal.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/td>\n<td><b>Larry Chiang (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/larrychiang?refsrc=email&amp;s=11\">@LarryChiang<\/a>)<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\">\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/larrychiang\/status\/593848384374476800?refsrc=email&amp;s=11\">4\/30\/15, 11:44 AM<\/a><\/div>\n<div>What I meant\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BobMetcalfe\">@BobMetcalfe<\/a>\u00a0was that\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UTLEA\">@UTLEA<\/a>&#8216;s Director should get a Less than min Viable twitter account (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23LTMVTA&amp;src=hash\">#LTMVTA<\/a>. Good seeing u\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FSAustin\">@FSAustin<\/a><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&#8211; Set up a base camp using email to announce yourself<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>See Dan Ha&#8217;s above point.<\/p>\n<table style=\"border: 1px solid black; padding: 8px;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"bottom\">\n<td width=\"48\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 48px; height: 48px; padding-right: 8px;\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/3411684931\/bd26194fa93733b624ec22966dbdb9d9_normal.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/td>\n<td><b>Larry Chiang (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/larrychiang?refsrc=email&amp;s=11\">@LarryChiang<\/a>)<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\">\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/larrychiang\/status\/593915970348978176?refsrc=email&amp;s=11\">4\/30\/15, 4:12 PM<\/a><\/div>\n<div>Bob\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BobMetcalfe\">@BobMetcalfe<\/a>\u00a0and Michael Dell. Follow the live tweets by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JoshuaBaer\">@JoshuaBaer<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23LonghornDemoDay&amp;src=hash\">#LonghornDemoDay<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/A7Mb9Nres1\">pic.twitter.com\/A7Mb9Nres1<\/a><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Set up a base camp using WORDPRESS to announce your RSVP. Blogging is hands down, the best. See StartX&#8217;s blog. Never let Silicon Valley intimidate you. Blogging a &#8220;less than minimum viable blog post&#8221; is my signature PRE crash maneuver. &#8220;less than minimum viable blog post&#8221; is so popular, I&#8217;ve a hashtag that reveals the best stuff I curate #LTMVBP<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;Crashing a party is like crashing yourself into a company for a job. Be entrepreneurial about your effort.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8212; Larry Chiang<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>My baseball mentor at UT has nuggets of wisdom. &#8220;be respectful of the rules. But have a healthy awareness of the process&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"22E9FA13-62F5-4C05-A73B-0A2EE681115D\" src=\"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/image8.jpeg\" alt=\"image.jpeg\" \/><\/div>\n<div>UT baseball coach Augie used to coach at an Urbana engineering school called The University of Illinois. Note: I was a prima Donna and didn&#8217;t take mentorship very well. After my mentor mentee disconnect, my promising career ended<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I didn&#8217;t blow it with my next mentor: Mark McCormack.<\/div>\n<div>\n<table style=\"border: 1px solid black; padding: 8px;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"bottom\">\n<td width=\"48\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 48px; height: 48px; padding-right: 8px;\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/3411684931\/bd26194fa93733b624ec22966dbdb9d9_normal.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/td>\n<td><b>Larry Chiang (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/larrychiang?refsrc=email&amp;s=11\">@LarryChiang<\/a>)<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\">\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/larrychiang\/status\/594533443846873088?refsrc=email&amp;s=11\">5\/2\/15, 9:06 AM<\/a><\/div>\n<div>Josh, do u have the CS 178 &amp; CS 378 slides from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23LonghornDemoDay&amp;src=hash\">#LonghornDemoDay<\/a>? I wanna blog them<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23CS178&amp;src=hash\">#CS178<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23CS378&amp;src=hash\">#CS378<\/a><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<table style=\"border: 1px solid black; padding: 8px;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"bottom\">\n<td width=\"48\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 48px; height: 48px; padding-right: 8px;\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/3411684931\/bd26194fa93733b624ec22966dbdb9d9_normal.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/td>\n<td><b>Larry Chiang (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/larrychiang?refsrc=email&amp;s=11\">@LarryChiang<\/a>)<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\">\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/larrychiang\/status\/594535013980327936?refsrc=email&amp;s=11\">5\/2\/15, 9:12 AM<\/a><\/div>\n<div>At 9:42pm at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23LonghornDemoDay&amp;src=hash\">#LonghornDemoDay<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%2330apr2015&amp;src=hash\">#30apr2015<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BobMetcalfe\">@BobMetcalfe<\/a>\u00a0said to &#8216;Courtney&#8217;, &#8220;I can&#8217;t stop you&#8221; Re crashing\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23cs178&amp;src=hash\">#cs178<\/a><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table style=\"border: 1px solid black; padding: 8px;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"bottom\">\n<td width=\"48\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 48px; height: 48px; padding-right: 8px;\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/3411684931\/bd26194fa93733b624ec22966dbdb9d9_normal.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/td>\n<td><b>Larry Chiang (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/larrychiang?refsrc=email&amp;s=11\">@LarryChiang<\/a>)<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\">\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/larrychiang\/status\/594535362015297539?refsrc=email&amp;s=11\">5\/2\/15, 9:14 AM<\/a><\/div>\n<div>Let&#8217;s hope Courtney locked in that verbal deal to attend \/audit cs 178 with a follow up email (that cc&#8217;s me!) Re\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23cs178&amp;src=hash\">#cs178<\/a><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table style=\"border: 1px solid black; padding: 8px;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"bottom\">\n<td width=\"48\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 48px; height: 48px; padding-right: 8px;\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/3411684931\/bd26194fa93733b624ec22966dbdb9d9_normal.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/td>\n<td><b>Larry Chiang (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/larrychiang?refsrc=email&amp;s=11\">@LarryChiang<\/a>)<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\">\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/larrychiang\/status\/594533153701658624?refsrc=email&amp;s=11\">5\/2\/15, 9:05 AM<\/a><\/div>\n<div>CS 178<br \/>\nFall semester &#8220;seminar&#8221;.<br \/>\nCS 378<br \/>\nSpring semester &#8220;lab&#8221;.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23CS178&amp;src=hash\">#CS178<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23CS378&amp;src=hash\">#CS378<\/a><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"64F10FDA-316A-4C30-AD0F-9C41F8B887DE\" src=\"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/image9.jpeg\" alt=\"image.jpeg\" \/><\/p>\n<div>Lisa Falzone crashed the POS industry. She&#8217;s ceo of Revel Systems<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Pitfalls<\/div>\n<div>-a- it&#8217;s a mistake to crash and not add value. If you&#8217;re young and new, just take pics<\/div>\n<div>-b- it&#8217;s a mistake to crash and then not write THANK YOU card<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"3E1FB30A-927C-4A79-B5F1-34226EC0BFBE\" src=\"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/image10.jpeg\" alt=\"image.jpeg\" \/><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>-c- Just because you went to a great school, it doesn&#8217;t mean people care<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"E4DB3CF4-BFB1-403E-B16E-D1A9DD9AFA8A\" src=\"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/image11.jpeg\" alt=\"image.jpeg\" \/><\/div>\n<div>TellApart founders went to Columbia and Stanford. They crashed LeadsCon and became VIPs when they co-hosted a phat party at Palms Hotel inside the nba suite. Later, they crashed the LeadGen industry. Now you know the rest of the startup story!!<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Larry Chiang&#8217;s 5th book, What They Don&#8217;t Teach You At Stanford Business School, launched after a Harvard Law School keynote on the New York Fashion Week runway 09-09-2009. He knows how to sniff out grand openings and crashed them with his dog Baxter. 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