{"id":5088,"date":"2015-07-01T02:35:19","date_gmt":"2015-07-01T06:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/?p=5088"},"modified":"2015-07-20T19:18:43","modified_gmt":"2015-07-20T23:18:43","slug":"marketing-so-advanced-its-dumb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/marketing-so-advanced-its-dumb\/","title":{"rendered":"Marketing So Advanced, It&#8217;s Dumb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Larry Chiang enthusiastically listens in a motivated posture to soak up knowledge from &#8220;First Chair Entrepreneurship&#8221;. He took notes on his mentor&#8217;s, Mark McCormack&#8217;s, book(s) so <a href=\"https:\/\/gigaom.com\/2008\/01\/17\/9-things-stanford-b-school-wont-teach-you\/\" target=\"_blank\">thoroughly well on GigaOm<\/a> that he earned a guest lecture gig at Harvard Law School. Harvard Business School&#8217;s Harbus, Paul Thompson 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>&#8220;. Now, <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/vc0311b\" target=\"_blank\">he writes at Harbus<\/a> himself and activates Gua Gua Guacamole marketing knowledge for engineers who have a startup. Yup, a &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/austinstartuparchive.wordpress.com\/2013\/03\/13\/jba-is-a-jedi-in-business-administration\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jedi in Business Administration<\/a>&#8221; is real.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/whattheydontteachyouatstanfordbusinessschool.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/cropped-head-shot-no-smile.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-743\" title=\"Larry-Chiang\" src=\"https:\/\/whattheydontteachyouatstanfordbusinessschool.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/cropped-head-shot-no-smile.jpg\" alt=\"Larry Chiang\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>SILICON VALLEY, Calif.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>By Larry Chiang<\/p>\n<p>The favorite method to like your wounds after a Silicon Valley meeting gone badly is to say, &#8220;They didn&#8217;t get it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Plot spoiler, when you teach 5th graders how to play baseball or how to entrepreneur, and they do not &#8220;get it&#8221;, it is obviously your fault. So, now I present to you marketing so smart, its dumb.<\/p>\n<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\/613751289587957760\/ZN0VKUOa_normal.jpg\" 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\/616075541867855873?refsrc=email&amp;s=11\">6\/30\/15, 7:47 PM<\/a><\/div>\n<div>If Silicon Valley startup founders marketed movies, they&#8217;d use organic, New Zealand lamb brands, that no one knows <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/sUJlz7X6kL\">pic.twitter.com\/sUJlz7X6kL<\/a><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Very few people know that the world&#8217;s best lamb comes from New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p>They are raised happily. They die happily. You can taste it. You can definitely feel it in the high price.<\/p>\n<p>Well, marketing is mostly sales based. I got most of my knowledge HERE:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/What-Teach-Harvard-Business-School\/dp\/0553345834\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"04B100FC-CB03-4A6F-81FA-E129894BC5CF\" src=\"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/image1.jpg\" alt=\"image1.JPG\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eudADPfTWiE\"><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><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WVKHwYJzVVc\"><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><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Larry Chiang enthusiastically listens in a motivated posture to soak up knowledge from &#8220;First Chair Entrepreneurship&#8221;. He took notes on his mentor&#8217;s, Mark McCormack&#8217;s, book(s) so thoroughly well on GigaOm that he earned a guest lecture gig at Harvard Law School. Harvard Business School&#8217;s Harbus, Paul Thompson wrote: \u201cWhat They Don\u2019t 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":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gua-gua-guacamole"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5088","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=5088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5088\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}