{"id":5809,"date":"2015-09-01T12:35:33","date_gmt":"2015-09-01T16:35:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/?p=5809"},"modified":"2015-09-01T12:36:27","modified_gmt":"2015-09-01T16:36:27","slug":"constellation-of-opportunities-for-cs-major-cros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/constellation-of-opportunities-for-cs-major-cros\/","title":{"rendered":"Constellation of Opportunities for CS Major (CRO&#8217;s)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>By Larry Chiang<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I get asked all-the-time if there is a certification process to be a &#8220;CS major CRO&#8221; designate<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>#csMajorCRO &#8220;certification&#8221; is easy. Just do a PopUpInternship, make $300. Spend that same $300 anywhere. Fill out a schedule C. You keep 100%.&nbsp;<\/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\/638370837217701888?refsrc=email&amp;s=11\">8\/31\/15, 8:20 AM<\/a><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;SalesForce has a constellation of opportunities that newbie founders can solve in a semester.&#8221;<br \/>&#8212; Larry Chiang<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>If you&#8217;re taking a class on entrepreneurship, getting $300 in revenue pretty much sets the bell curve.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Let me repeat, even if you&#8217;re a YC startup, getting $300 in revenue helps you set the bell curve. Let everyone else in class dream about venture capital. We engineers can just arbitrage the most simple task ever: Buy low or buy for zero, sell high.&nbsp;<\/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\"><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\/638745608711372800?refsrc=email&amp;s=11\" style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><font color=\"#000000\">9\/1\/15, 9:09 AM<\/font><\/a><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">Bring a moleskin to SalesForce&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23StartupSummit&amp;src=hash\">#StartupSummit<\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23DF15&amp;src=hash\">#DF15<\/a>. Mimic&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/crazyfoo\">@crazyfoo<\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/shtat\">@shtat<\/a>&nbsp;@&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23LeadsCon&amp;src=hash\">#LeadsCon<\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23ENGR145&amp;src=hash\">#ENGR145<\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LarryChiang\">@LarryChiang<\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/m1UfXT7y5E\">pic.twitter.com\/m1UfXT7y5E<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div>Take some notes on this video which is a work of staggering genius!<\/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);\">Cross the Chasm, FROM THE RIGHT<\/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>By Larry Chiang I get asked all-the-time if there is a certification process to be a &#8220;CS major CRO&#8221; designate #csMajorCRO &#8220;certification&#8221; is easy. Just do a PopUpInternship, make $300. Spend that same $300 anywhere. Fill out a schedule C. You keep 100%.&nbsp; Larry Chiang (@LarryChiang) 8\/31\/15, 8:20 AM &#8220;SalesForce has a constellation of opportunities [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5809","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=5809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}