{"id":4324,"date":"2015-05-11T21:35:53","date_gmt":"2015-05-12T01:35:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/?p=4324"},"modified":"2015-05-16T19:15:17","modified_gmt":"2015-05-16T23:15:17","slug":"paul-buchheit-says-sell-before-you-build","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/paul-buchheit-says-sell-before-you-build\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Buchheit Says &#8220;Sell Before You Build&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Larry Chiang wrote a 2009 sequel to three books his mentor wrote in the 80s. &#8220;<strong><em>What They Don&#8217;t Teach You At Stanford Business School<\/em><\/strong>&#8221; is a sequel to his mentor&#8217;s, Mark McCormack&#8217;s book, <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/What-Teach-Harvard-Business-School\/dp\/0553345834\" target=\"_blank\">What They Don&#8217;t Teach You At Harvard Business School<\/a><\/em><\/strong>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/What-Teach-Harvard-Business-School\/dp\/0553345834\" target=\"_blank\">What They Don&#8217;t Teach You At Harvard Business School<\/a> helped Chiang start a company as an engineering major in Illini Tower where he was encouraged to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/internships\/pop-up-internship-1-to-5\/\">try doing sales as a CS major via &#8216;Pop Up Internships&#8217;<\/a>. Duck9 helps <a href=\"https:\/\/www.101secrets.com\/general-population-credit-knowledge.htm\" target=\"_blank\">students get a FICO<\/a> credit card credit score over 750. Prior to the NY Fashion week book launch party, Chiang did a Harvard Law School keynote summarized by <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/vc0311a\" target=\"_blank\">Harvard Business School,<\/a> \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>&#8220;. Yes, Harvard Law pokes at Harvard Business very often so Stanford Business is not off limits. &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bit.ly\/vc0311a\" target=\"_blank\">Lets win SXSW, this SXSW<\/a>&#8221; is in Harbus right now.<\/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 \/>\n&#8220;New York Fashion Week showcases product that is all in the prototype stage.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8212; Larry Chiang<br \/>\nSupermodel and Founding Entrepreneur-in-Residence<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>By Larry Chiang<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>A startup has some initial steps that are completely COUNTERINTUITIVE.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>I want my articles to accelerate your startup team. So, I curate the best tips, strategies, techniques and ideas and sequence &#8220;signature business recipes&#8221; into &#8216;hashtags&#8217;. Inside the class &#8220;How to Start a Startup&#8221;, CS 183b, the word &#8220;actually&#8221; is followed by the piece of startup advice that&#8217;s counterintuitive.<\/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\/542006978240069632?refsrc=email&amp;s=11\">12\/8\/14, 9:25 AM<\/a><\/div>\n<div>YC advice not stressed at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23CS183b&amp;src=hash\">#CS183b<\/a><br \/>\naddressing &#8220;do things that do not scale&#8221;(But Have Momentum)\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23dttdsBHM&amp;src=hash\">#dttdsBHM<\/a>\u00a0via\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23ENGR145&amp;src=hash\">#ENGR145<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OiYnLAlvtA\">bit.ly\/pbuchheit710<\/a><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Paul Buchheit Says &#8220;Sell Before You Build&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OiYnLAlvtA\">bit.ly\/pbuchheit710<\/a><\/p>\n<p>More sell before you build advice:<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/startupclass.samaltman.com\/courses\/lec08\/\">https:\/\/startupclass.samaltman.com\/courses\/lec08\/<\/a>\u00a0(it&#8217;s the lecture on &#8220;do things that do not scale (But Have Momentum)\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23dttdsBHM&amp;src=hash\">#dttdsBHM<\/a>. I have curated these to be\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23dttdsBHM&amp;src=hash\">#dttdsBHM<\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/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\/594902127706640384?refsrc=email&amp;s=11\">5\/3\/15, 9:31 AM<\/a><\/div>\n<div>In short, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23cs183b&amp;src=hash\">#cs183b<\/a> preaches <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/paulg\">@paulg<\/a>&#8216;s mantra, &#8220;Do things that don&#8217;t scale&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23dttdsBHM&amp;src=hash\">#dttdsBHM<\/a>. Pic = &#8220;Collison Brothers install&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xG2fMYxlM0\">pic.twitter.com\/xG2fMYxlM0<\/a><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Are u selling an app? You should probably google &#8220;Engr 145 hamster wheel backend&#8221; before you code it up<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"A8BD2D17-27BB-402A-A0E8-32BC14254E94\" src=\"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/image47.jpeg\" alt=\"image.jpeg\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The concept of selling something is curated under #CS183b<\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"0DEF9C39-0691-4450-A5AE-6579D67BF07F\" src=\"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/image48.jpeg\" alt=\"image.jpeg\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Larry Chiang wrote a 2009 sequel to three books his mentor wrote in the 80s. &#8220;What They Don&#8217;t Teach You At Stanford Business School&#8221; is a sequel to his mentor&#8217;s, Mark McCormack&#8217;s book, What They Don&#8217;t Teach You At Harvard Business School. 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