{"id":518,"date":"2012-04-10T19:22:49","date_gmt":"2012-04-10T23:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/?p=518"},"modified":"2012-04-10T19:22:49","modified_gmt":"2012-04-10T23:22:49","slug":"robot-duck-a-fico-score-augmenting-stuffed-animal-duck-that-helps-vcs-with-their-fico-credit-score","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/robot-duck-a-fico-score-augmenting-stuffed-animal-duck-that-helps-vcs-with-their-fico-credit-score\/","title":{"rendered":"Robot Duck: a FICO Score Augmenting Stuffed Animal Duck That Helps VCs with Their FICO Credit Score"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Larry Chiang ranges between delta male and alpha male almost as comfortably as Jesus toggles between alpha to omega. He teaches Stanford Engineering&#8217;s class on &#8220;technology entrepreneurship&#8221; called Engineering 145. Street smarts is the focus of his triple threat columns (CNN \/Yahoo \/ Bloomberg BusinessWeek)\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/ireport.cnn.com\/people\/larrychiang\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cWhat They Don\u2019t Teach You at Business School\u201d<\/a>. He learned being street smart from his Ivy league mentor who wen to to Yale law but wrote about Harvard Business School. After Chiang\u2019s Harvard Law keynote, Harvard Business wrote: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/whattheydontteachyouatstanfordbusinessschool.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/25\/what-they-don%E2%80%99t-teach-you-at-stanford-business-school-at-harvard\/\" target=\"_blank\">What They Don\u2019t Teach You at Stanford Business School<\/a>\u201c (it&#8217;s the same title as his NY Times bestseller). He is also EIR, Entrepreneur in Residence, at Stanford University where he is attempting to Pivot SLAC. If you read his hilariously awesome \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/whattheydontteachyouatstanfordbusinessschool.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/11\/what-a-supermodel-can-teach-a-stanford-mba\/\" target=\"_blank\">What a Supermodel Can Teach a Stanford MBA<\/a>\u201d, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/gigaom.com\/2008\/02\/21\/howtoworktheroom\/\" target=\"_blank\">How to Get Man-Charm<\/a>\u201d, and pattern recognized the <a title=\"Duck9 rebate\" href=\"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/rebate\/\" target=\"_blank\">Duck9 rebate&#8230; you will love his latest post<\/a> before Mega Startup Weekend in Mountain View, California April 13 -15:<\/p>\n<p>Robot Duck: a FICO Score Augmenting Stuffed Animal Duck that Hacks VC Credit Scores<\/p>\n<table width=\"100\" cellpadding=\"20\" align=\"left\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"100\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.whattheydontteachyouatstanfordbusinessschool.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"cropped-head-shot1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/cropped-head-shot1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"96\" height=\"96\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>STANFORD CALIFORNIA &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>by Larry Chiang<\/p>\n<p>My lulu lemon shopping bag told me: &#8220;Do something everyday that scares you&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> Well, pitching at my third time at a startup weekend scares the ba-hey-zues out of me. You see, Steve Blank told me that VCs need to be entrepreneurial. I execute what smart people write about.<\/p>\n<p> I executed Gerri Detweiler&#8217;s &#8220;Ultimate Credit Handbook&#8221;<br \/> I executed Mark McCormack&#8217;s seminal tome: WTDTYAHBS<\/p>\n<p>Now I am executing Steve Blank&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/steveblank.com\/2011\/11\/01\/steel-in-their-eyes-why-vc%E2%80%99s-should-be-startup-ceo%E2%80%99s\/\" target=\"_blank\">steel in their eyes<\/a>&#8221; post.\u00a0 It is part of my <a href=\"https:\/\/sxsw-2013-mvee4vc.eventbrite.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">MVEE4VC<\/a>. It stands for minimum viable entrepreneur experience for VCs. <\/p>\n<p>Oh and I am executing Mark Cuban&#8217;s two blog posts<br \/> https:\/\/bit.ly\/mcuban710<br \/> https:\/\/bit.ly\/mcuban711<\/p>\n<p> At Mega Startup weekend, I am a robot engineer where I will be developing, launching (and maybe selling?!) a robot duck that helps VCs with their FICO score. The average FICO score of a college student I mentor is 775. The average <a href=\"https:\/\/whattheydontteachyouatstanfordbusinessschool.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/02\/10-vcs-and-their-secret-fico-scores\/\" target=\"_blank\">VC FICO score working in the 94025 is 678<\/a>. True story.<\/p>\n<p> For details, link here: https:\/\/megasw2012.eventbrite.com<br \/> I am announcing the exit at #OFGPFSE or st regis PE conference or at SXSW (depending on when I sell it). Yes, I eat my own Gua Gua Guacamole in attempting to get a Ga Ga Guaranateed exit<\/p>\n<p>This is my SXSW activity report<\/p>\n<p>I wrote &#8217;em all at sxsw: &#8220;https:\/\/bit.ly\/vc0310-&#8221; (sequelized and coded bit.ly&#8217;s)<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/bit.ly\/vc0310cnn #1 in Entrepreneurship Education<br \/> https:\/\/bit.ly\/vc0310cnn1 Top 5 Tech Tools at SXSW<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/bit.ly\/vc0310vc9 QB Audibles at SXSW. What 6&#8217;5&#8243; Supermodel Can Teach You at SXSW<br \/> https:\/\/bit.ly\/vc0310pu1 Xconomy Article on Min Viable Parties<br \/> https:\/\/bit.ly\/vc0310pu2 Pop Up Accelerator Engage (blog article)<br \/> https:\/\/bit.ly\/vc0310pu5 AlwaysOn: The virtual sxsw experience<br \/> https:\/\/bit.ly\/vc0310asse9 Is there a Secret Society. (Austin Startup.com)<br \/> https:\/\/bit.ly\/vc0310sxsw In Austin Startup. Four SXSW for you. One for me.<br \/> https:\/\/bit.ly\/vc0310z Tidal Wave of Momentum<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/bit.ly\/vc0310z9 Best of SXSW Launch articles<br \/> https:\/\/bit.ly\/vc0310ccc1 is a Duck9 blog post about FICO here at SXSW a sequel post to: https:\/\/bit.ly\/vc03100<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/bit.ly\/vc0310z10y Youtube<br \/> https:\/\/bit.ly\/vc0310z10b Gua Gua Guacamole<br \/> https:\/\/yhoo.it\/vc0310vc0310jba1 Anchor + Satellite Events<br \/> https:\/\/yhoo.it\/vc0310vc0310ut Spring Break at UT Entrepreneur Week<br \/> https:\/\/yhoo.it\/vc0310vc0310legal Reducing Sales Friction at SXSW<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/bit.ly\/vc0310vi Virtual SXSW Experience<br \/> https:\/\/bit.ly\/vc0310nus Its an LP party and a blog post all rolled up into one<br \/> https:\/\/bit.ly\/vc0310z (its a summary of all the bit.ly\/vc0310&#8217;s)<br \/> https:\/\/bit.ly\/vc0310z1 Entrepreneur Jiu Jitsu<br \/> and I had Remmy write something<br \/> https:\/\/bit.ly\/vc0310z2 Remmy<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/bit.ly\/vc0310xxx Sex Wisdom from the Front Lines of SXSW<br \/> Meet Dickie the Duck #sxsw #AmexDuck9 https:\/\/bit.ly\/vc0310xx<br \/> https:\/\/bit.ly\/zRwGft MMPPI sxsw<br \/> https:\/\/bit.ly\/vc0310x tidal wave momentum<br \/> https:\/\/bit.ly\/vc0310w tech tools of sxsw<br \/> https:\/\/bit.ly\/vc03101111 list of parties<\/p>\n<p>And I picked up a value added troll. https:\/\/bit.ly\/zMRs21 a Scandalous Stanford Franchise at #sxsw https:\/\/bit.ly\/vc0310a2<\/p>\n<p>vc0310a1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Larry Chiang ranges between delta male and alpha male almost as comfortably as Jesus toggles between alpha to omega. 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