{"id":4542,"date":"2015-05-26T19:35:32","date_gmt":"2015-05-26T23:35:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/?p=4542"},"modified":"2015-07-08T17:27:03","modified_gmt":"2015-07-08T21:27:03","slug":"1-yc-casualty-is-tragic-100-is-a-statistic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/1-yc-casualty-is-tragic-100-is-a-statistic\/","title":{"rendered":"1 YC Casualty is Tragic. 100 is a Statistic."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Larry Chiang is a marketing phenom. He reverse-shoplifted his book to the top of the &#8220;New York Times Best Seller&#8221; list. Wedging <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/What-Teach-Stanford-Business-School\/dp\/0615301487\/\" target=\"_blank\">his book<\/a> at Whole Foods&#8217; Columbus Circle location, <a href=\"https:\/\/gigaom.com\/2008\/01\/17\/9-things-stanford-b-school-wont-teach-you\/\" target=\"_blank\">premiering a year and a half before<\/a>, grand opening at NY fashion week runway on &#8220;09-09-09&#8221; and launching &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/What-Teach-Stanford-Business-School\/dp\/0615301487\/\" target=\"_blank\">What They Don&#8217;t Teach You At Stanford Business School&#8221;<\/a> is now the new norm at Stanford Engineering. By debuting the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/What-Teach-Stanford-Business-School\/dp\/0615301487\/\" target=\"_blank\">book<\/a>&#8216;s blog posts at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/movie\" target=\"_blank\">Sundance<\/a> and SXSW film festivals nine months and six months before 09-09-09, respectively, Hollywood had nearly zero choice but to option &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/What-Teach-Stanford-Business-School\/dp\/0615301487\/\" target=\"_blank\">#WTDTYASBS&#8221;<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>But all that talent cannot help this eerie truth: &#8220;1 YC Casualty is tragic. 100 is a statistic&#8221;.<\/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 \/>\nNew York Fashion Week (#NYFW) is where the best brands pay to launch new lines of clothing.<br \/>\n&#8212; Larry Chiang<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><strong>UPDATE: Tweet has been edited for clarity.<\/strong><br \/>\nBy Larry Chiang<\/p>\n<div>Being well networked, I know a lot of people. A lot of people know me.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>So what.<\/div>\n<div><\/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\/569194116187234304?refsrc=email&amp;s=11\">2\/21\/15, 9:57 AM<\/a><\/div>\n<div>One Stanford startup dying in YC is tragic. 100&#8217;s a statistic.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23vcSecrets&amp;src=hash\">#vcSecrets<\/a><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>So, what&#8217;s important is not that<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\/1\/ I&#8217;m popular.<\/div>\n<div>\/2\/ I&#8217;m smart.<\/div>\n<div>\/3\/ It&#8217;s not important that I am hilarious &#8211; I put shitake at Harvard to make fun of the Pac12 school I&#8217;m an athletic booster at:<\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/vc0311a\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/vc0311a<\/a><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"51079706-AC40-4411-84B1-7CCE83506EF2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/image112.jpeg\" alt=\"image.jpeg\" \/><\/div>\n<div>Who helps YC portfolio companies &#8220;Cross the Chasm From the Right&#8221; #CTCFTR and &#8220;tilt!&#8221; [Photo credit: Larry Chiang]<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>And hilarious. Because I connect &#8220;Mr Peabody&#8221; with Eric Ries, professor Steve Blank and Mark McCormack (Oh yes!, I did have brain power to make it funny cc Sherman and Mr Peabody \ud83d\ude09<\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/vc0311b\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/vc0311b<\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b><i>What&#8217;s important is that YC is<\/i><\/b>\u00a045 startup deaths away from racking up 100. 100 YC startups dying, will be like 1,000,000 Asians during WWII. And no one has uttered a peep for all the Chinese and Russians killed. Just. A. statistic.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Will 100 be just a stat.<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>I am not down with that.<\/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\/601067214435815425?refsrc=email&amp;s=11\">5\/20\/15, 9:49 AM<\/a><\/div>\n<div>Distribution. It&#8217;s the most thought about issue that VCs fire founders over <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23DuckCh9Bk&amp;src=hash\">#DuckCh9Bk<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tpevkcrqRE\">duck9.com\/blog\/venture-c\u2026<\/a><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23DuckCh9Bk&amp;src=hash\">#Duck entrepreneurship bankruptcy (#Ch9 Bk<\/a>) Duck the quiet shutdown and subtle enrollment in a Top 6 business school, like Wharton.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23DuckCh9Bk&amp;src=hash\">#DuckCh9Bk<\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Duck, 9 and maybe listen when 11 YC partners scream &#8220;do things that don&#8217;t scale (But Have Momentum)&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>Stanford Engineering&#8217;s, ENGR 145&#8217;s 2 anchor videos move\u00a0your revenue-less startup to the right on the entrepreneur bell curve<\/div>\n<div><\/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);\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eudADPfTWiE&amp;feature=youtube_gdata_player\"><embed src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/eudADPfTWiE&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/a><\/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 src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/WVKHwYJzVVc&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/a><\/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);\"><span style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.235294);\">At an early age, I learned having a large super brain and being good at sports is not special. There are a lot of people that get recruited to Stanford. (Like Chasson Randle who got recruited to Illinois and Stanford but baseball. And I picked Illinois while he picked Stanford)<\/span><\/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);\"><span style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.235294);\">\u00a0<\/span><\/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);\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"F0E43C7E-A547-4E4B-832A-56C0D839835D\" src=\"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/image113.jpeg\" alt=\"image.jpeg\" \/><span style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.235294);\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/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);\"><span style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.235294);\">Use my large brain to avoid being a premature startup casualty (to quote Engr145 professor, Tom Kosnik). Please study the engr 145 video &#8220;Cross the Chasm From the Right&#8221;<\/span><\/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);\"><span style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.235294);\">\u00a0<\/span><\/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 src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/WVKHwYJzVVc&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=n5jB310egEI&amp;feature=youtube_gdata_player\"><embed src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/n5jB310egEI&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BMyLcDaWazU&amp;feature=youtube_gdata_player\"><embed src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/BMyLcDaWazU&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>CEO of Duck9<\/div>\n<div>Stanford University&#8217;s Founding EIR (Entrepreneur in Residence)<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Duck9 = Deep Underground Credit Knowledge 9<\/div>\n<div>c\/o UCMS Inc<\/div>\n<div>2021 Midwest Road \/ 3rd FL<\/div>\n<div>Oak Brook IL<\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/ass\">https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/ass<\/a><\/div>\n<div>630-705-5555<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>650-283-8008 (cell)<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>****************<\/div>\n<div>Founder of &#8220;What They Don&#8217;t Teach at Business School&#8221;\u00a0for CNN iReport: <a href=\"https:\/\/ireport.cnn.com\/people\/larrychiang\">https:\/\/ireport.cnn.com\/people\/larrychiang<\/a><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QXIaNZi3mHQ\"><embed src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/QXIaNZi3mHQ&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Author, NY Times Bestseller<\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/whattheydontteachyouatstanfordbusinessschool.com\/blog\/?s=Ny+times+bestseller\">https:\/\/whattheydontteachyouatstanfordbusinessschool.com\/blog\/?s=Ny+times+bestseller<\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;What They Will NEVER Teach You at Stanford Business School about EUTWMPPM @SXSW&#8221; comes out 11-11-14<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/embed\/c0d4562ea2049\">https:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/embed\/c0d4562ea2049<\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>52 Cards. Two Jokers. What They DO Teach You at Stanford Engineering<\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vDBY0GkI3-g&amp;feature=youtube_gdata_player\"><embed src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/vDBY0GkI3-g&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Emergency swings and cutting deals as an 9 year old<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=OFGY7v9C4G0&amp;feature=youtube_gdata_player\"><embed src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/OFGY7v9C4G0&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Larry Chiang is a marketing phenom. He reverse-shoplifted his book to the top of the &#8220;New York Times Best Seller&#8221; list. Wedging his book at Whole Foods&#8217; Columbus Circle location, premiering a year and a half before, grand opening at NY fashion week runway on &#8220;09-09-09&#8221; and launching &#8220;What They Don&#8217;t Teach You At Stanford [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stanford-engineering"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4542","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=4542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4542\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}