{"id":5781,"date":"2015-08-28T12:00:55","date_gmt":"2015-08-28T16:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/?p=5781"},"modified":"2015-08-29T12:09:56","modified_gmt":"2015-08-29T16:09:56","slug":"how-austin-can-get-home-field-advantage-at-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/how-austin-can-get-home-field-advantage-at-home\/","title":{"rendered":"How Austin Can Get Home Field Advantage at Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Larry Chiang <a href=\"https:\/\/gigaom.com\/2008\/01\/17\/9-things-stanford-b-school-wont-teach-you\/\" target=\"_blank\">pre-promotes<\/a> live events months and months before they occur. With his 09-09-09 book release at New York Fashion Week, <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<\/a> made a huge splash, made the NY Times bestseller list and returned invested capital before the launch. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/What-Teach-Stanford-Business-School\/dp\/0615301487\/\" target=\"_blank\">#WTDTYASBS&#8217;s<\/a> distributed at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/movie\" target=\"_blank\">Sundance<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/vc0311a\" target=\"_blank\">SXSW<\/a> months and months before. As CEO of Duck9, Chaing prepares mentees with high FICO scores months and months before applying for a getting lines of credit. To know what he knows, read what Chaing read: &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Ultimate-Credit-Handbook-Lifetime-Great\/dp\/0452283922\" target=\"_blank\">Ultimate Credit Handbook<\/a>&#8221; and, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/What-Teach-Harvard-Business-School\/dp\/0553345834\" target=\"_blank\">What They Don\u2019t Teach You at Harvard Business School<\/a>&#8220;.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/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 is sooooooo fun!<br \/>\n&#8212; Larry Chiang<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>By Larry Chiang<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>This is going to sound oxymoronic but is genius in a way that I value. You want to seem like you&#8217;re the crasher of a party YOU are hosting.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Let me repeat, when you host a party, do not be the cliche host that is stressed about people having a good time. Be the carefree +1&#8217;s, plus one. This. Applies. To. Austin.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>So many times, conferences are held in Austin as a destination. Austin, as a city is on fire and draws as a destination. Austin should lever the fact that industry&#8217;s have industry specific meetings.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Let us change gears and focus on an entrepreneurship class (CS 178, How to start a startup):<\/p>\n<table style=\"border:1px solid black;padding:8px;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"bottom\">\n<td width=\"48\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/613751289587957760\/ZN0VKUOa_normal.jpg\" style=\"width:48px;height:48px;padding-right:8px;\"><\/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\/637279579707564033?refsrc=email&amp;s=11\">8\/28\/15, 8:04 AM<\/a><\/div>\n<div>There were portions in your lecture <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JoshuaBaer\">@JoshuaBaer<\/a> that Silicon Valley kinda says, sorta whispers BUT IS CRITICAL Re starting company. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23cs178&amp;src=hash\">#cs178<\/a><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<table style=\"border: 1px solid black; padding: 8px;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"bottom\">\n<td width=\"48\"><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/613751289587957760\/ZN0VKUOa_normal.jpg\" style=\"width: 48px; height: 48px; padding-right: 8px;\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td><b style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">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\/637114537255133188?refsrc=email&amp;s=11\" style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><font color=\"#000000\">8\/27\/15, 9:08 PM<\/font><\/a><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">Coincidence #1&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JoshuaBaer\">@JoshuaBaer<\/a>. We both reached break-even before we incorporated.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23cs178&amp;src=hash\">#cs178<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><br \/>(I wrote about how to accept money. I blogged about how to take in revenue. I created a hashtag: #CSmajorCRO for this express purpose).&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<table style=\"border: 1px solid black; padding: 8px;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"bottom\">\n<td width=\"48\"><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/613751289587957760\/ZN0VKUOa_normal.jpg\" style=\"width: 48px; height: 48px; padding-right: 8px;\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td><b style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">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\/637114201207508992?refsrc=email&amp;s=11\" style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><font color=\"#000000\">8\/27\/15, 9:07 PM<\/font><\/a><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">Coincidence #2&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JoshuaBaer\">@JoshuaBaer<\/a>. We both did our company nomenclature off of our mentor&#8217;s company.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23cs178&amp;src=hash\">#cs178<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<table style=\"border: 1px solid black; padding: 8px;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"bottom\">\n<td width=\"48\"><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/613751289587957760\/ZN0VKUOa_normal.jpg\" style=\"width: 48px; height: 48px; padding-right: 8px;\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td><b style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">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\/637074288055480320?refsrc=email&amp;s=11\" style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><font color=\"#000000\">8\/27\/15, 6:28 PM<\/font><\/a><\/div>\n<div><font color=\"#000000\"><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JoshuaBaer\">@JoshuaBaer<\/a>&nbsp;did a sequel company. Spin Out companies are genius.<\/span><\/font><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<table style=\"border: 1px solid black; padding: 8px;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"bottom\">\n<td width=\"48\"><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/613751289587957760\/ZN0VKUOa_normal.jpg\" style=\"width: 48px; height: 48px; padding-right: 8px;\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td><b style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">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\/637074114411257856?refsrc=email&amp;s=11\" style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><font color=\"#000000\">8\/27\/15, 6:27 PM<\/font><\/a><\/div>\n<div><font color=\"#000000\"><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JoshuaBaer\">@JoshuaBaer<\/a>&#8216;s first company was a division of his mentors company.<\/span><\/font><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n<table style=\"border: 1px solid black; padding: 8px;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"bottom\">\n<td width=\"48\"><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/613751289587957760\/ZN0VKUOa_normal.jpg\" style=\"width: 48px; height: 48px; padding-right: 8px;\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td><b style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">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\/637280448075268097?refsrc=email&amp;s=11\" style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><font color=\"#000000\">8\/28\/15, 8:07 AM<\/font><\/a><\/div>\n<div><font color=\"#000000\"><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23CS178&amp;src=hash\">#CS178<\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JoshuaBaer\">@JoshuaBaer<\/a>&nbsp;have you heard of the startup name game &#8220;three quarters baked&#8221;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%233qb&amp;src=hash\">#3qb<\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Q76N8u9kJc\">bit.ly\/buster145123qb<\/a><\/span><\/font><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><br \/><\/span>Now, back to home field advantage at home.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/p>\n<table style=\"border: 1px solid black; padding: 8px;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"bottom\">\n<td width=\"48\"><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/613751289587957760\/ZN0VKUOa_normal.jpg\" style=\"width: 48px; height: 48px; padding-right: 8px;\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td><b style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">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\/637286032023486464?refsrc=email&amp;s=11\" style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><font color=\"#000000\">8\/28\/15, 8:30 AM<\/font><\/a><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">Last year, the industry conference you&#8217;re crashing had the same layout as this year (obvi)&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/f2kVxA4LLb\">pic.twitter.com\/f2kVxA4LLb<\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5ZXP5HuROw\">pic.twitter.com\/5ZXP5HuROw<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/image44.jpg\" alt=\"image4.JPG\" id=\"D85BB7EC-0AE2-4882-B609-8B6B6EBF31EF\"><br \/>You kinda wanna crash as a CS major undergrad.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n<table style=\"border: 1px solid black; padding: 8px;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"bottom\">\n<td width=\"48\"><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/613751289587957760\/ZN0VKUOa_normal.jpg\" style=\"width: 48px; height: 48px; padding-right: 8px;\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td><b style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">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\/390606768432496640?refsrc=email&amp;s=11\" style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><font color=\"#000000\">10\/16\/13, 3:34 PM<\/font><\/a><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">SpredFast Summit is&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23SFsummit&amp;src=hash\">#SFsummit<\/a>. Go if you&#8217;re UT and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23EUBM&amp;src=hash\">#EUBM<\/a>&nbsp;up an&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23LCMCC&amp;src=hash\">#LCMCC<\/a>&nbsp;(@ Hyatt Regency Austin w\/ 15 others)&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2QVPz7MjEC\">4sq.com\/15JoscJ<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><br \/>NAPBS is SEPT 20-22. It&#8217;s at the JW Marriott.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">I hope you&#8217;re good at googling what NAPBS is because there is so much ancillary work to augment their effort. Email me to expand&#8230;<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/image133.jpg\" alt=\"image1.JPG\" id=\"572C8416-8C04-47D9-A86B-E8A5AD5C0B42\"><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/image220.jpg\" alt=\"image2.JPG\" id=\"38CC213C-76F4-434A-9955-8DAEC7E1C702\"><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/image311.jpg\" alt=\"image3.JPG\" id=\"0FD0E243-D8AB-4D59-8440-FEAFF6A11559\"><\/div>\n<div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eudADPfTWiE&amp;sns=em\"><embed width='425' height='344' allowfullscreen='true' allowscriptaccess='always' type='application\/x-shockwave-flash' src='https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/eudADPfTWiE&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1' \/><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WVKHwYJzVVc&amp;sns=em\"><embed width='425' height='344' allowfullscreen='true' allowscriptaccess='always' type='application\/x-shockwave-flash' src='https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/WVKHwYJzVVc&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1' \/><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Larry Chiang pre-promotes live events months and months before they occur. With his 09-09-09 book release at New York Fashion Week, What They Don&#8217;t Teach You At Stanford Business School made a huge splash, made the NY Times bestseller list and returned invested capital before the launch. #WTDTYASBS&#8217;s distributed at Sundance and SXSW months and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entrepreneurship"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5781","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=5781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5781\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}