{"id":4841,"date":"2015-06-17T16:41:26","date_gmt":"2015-06-17T20:41:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/?p=4841"},"modified":"2015-06-18T16:36:50","modified_gmt":"2015-06-18T20:36:50","slug":"hamster-wheel-the-back-end-sell-before-you-build-and-do-things-that-dont-scale-but-have-momentum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/hamster-wheel-the-back-end-sell-before-you-build-and-do-things-that-dont-scale-but-have-momentum\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamster-Wheel-The-Back-End, “Sell Before you build”, and ‘do things that don’t scale But Have Momentum"},"content":{"rendered":"

Larry Chiang has a J.B.A. not an MBA. JBA’s a Jedi in Business Administration. After Chiang\u2019s Harvard Law keynote, Harvard Business wrote: \u201cWhat They Don\u2019t Teach You at Stanford Business School”<\/a> WTDTYASBS is the same title as his NY Times bestseller. He curates pre-entrepreneurship via hashtags and articles that regurgitate and apply mentors’ knowledge. For example, “How to Hack at AfterParty<\/a>“, \u201cWhat a Supermodel Can Teach a Stanford MBA<\/a>\u201d and \u201cHow to Get Man-Charm<\/a>\u201d. See more at Bloomberg BusinessWeek and CNN’s channel \u201cWhat They Don\u2019t Teach You at Business School\u201d. This latest post is a treat:<\/p>\n

“Sell before you code.”<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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By Larry Chiang<\/a><\/p>\n

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Counterintuitive.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
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My mentor gave me the counterintuitive advice of build it after you sell it. My “theorem of sum things” explains why time and time again founders, entrepreneurs and pre-entrepreneurs build it and hope it sells itself.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
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Net, net tech co-founders do not want to sell. Sales and selling is curated at #CS183s and #ENGR145s. The specific process of hamster wheeling your backend means you, as a CS major, code later. Sell now.<\/span><\/div>\n
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https:\/\/youtu.be\/ap-0VnpvwCM<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/span><\/td>\nUnofficial Austin (@UnofficialATX<\/a>)<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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7\/2\/12, 6:37 PM<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
I uploaded a\u00a0@YouTube<\/a>\u00a0video\u00a0youtu.be\/ap-0VnpvwCM?a<\/a>\u00a0Hamster Wheel Your New Startups Backend\u00a0#ENGR145<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n


\nhttps:\/\/youtu.be\/ap-0VnpvwCM<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n
\"\"<\/span><\/td>\nGiselle Cory (@gisellecory<\/a>)<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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10\/21\/11, 3:47 AM<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
Creator of gmail, Paul Buchheit, says he hates email and to innovate, try and sell it before you build it.\u00a0#ECInnovation11<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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\"\"<\/td>\nDavid Guerra Terol (@dgterol<\/a>)<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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8\/6\/14, 2:49 PM<\/a><\/div>\n
“Sell before you build” Paul Buchheit, creator of Gmail and partner at Y Combinator news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=5651003<\/a><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Download<\/a> the Twitter app and sell something that exists as a sales practice exercise. I curated 5 “pop up internships”. The pop up internships are each 7 hours and let you keep 100% of the revenue.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Good luck!! Ryan Shea open-sourced his cards so you’re welcome to sell what a CS major made<\/div>\n
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\"\"<\/span><\/td>\nNick Tippmann (@ntippmann<\/a>)<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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3\/23\/12, 4:07 PM<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
That’s awesome\u00a0@ryaneshea<\/a>!! \u201c@LarryChiang<\/a>: 52 cards. 2 jokers\u00a0#engr145<\/a>\u00a0bit.ly\/buster1451252<\/a>\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n

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Sell the cards first<\/div>\n
Then fulfill orders<\/div>\n
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Selfie no-self, knowledge activates non-employee co-founder. I took the selfie. But I cropped myself out. Legendary VCs do this. My mentor did this for me. #SelfieNoSelf<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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