{"id":5885,"date":"2015-09-14T11:10:33","date_gmt":"2015-09-14T15:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/?p=5885"},"modified":"2015-09-14T11:17:09","modified_gmt":"2015-09-14T15:17:09","slug":"start-up-your-fico-before-your-american-startup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/start-up-your-fico-before-your-american-startup\/","title":{"rendered":"Start Up Your FICO Before Your American Startup"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>By Larry Chiang<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Starting up is so tough that people block the memory of the pain. Credit scores are no different from starting a tech startup.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>A common urban myth is that it takes money, spending and borrowing to raise and increase your credit score. Boosting your FICO takes no money. And no investment <a href=\"https:\/\/www.101secrets.com\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.101secrets.com\" >https:\/\/www.101secrets.com<\/a><\/a>.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Here is something common made uncommon:<\/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\/1356680194\/lane-headshot_normal.jpg\" style=\"width: 48px; height: 48px; padding-right: 8px;\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td><b style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">#FreeCreditReport (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/freecreditrepor?refsrc=email&amp;s=11\">@freecreditrepor<\/a>)<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\">\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/freecreditrepor\/status\/630436031246897152?refsrc=email&amp;s=11\" style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><font color=\"#000000\">8\/9\/15, 10:50 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=%23poBox16589&amp;src=hash\">#poBox16589<\/a>. Charge 20. Pay $20. Repeat.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23FreeCreditReport&amp;src=hash\">#FreeCreditReport<\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FtYx6AuxKd\">pic.twitter.com\/FtYx6AuxKd<\/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><font color=\"#000000\" style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23poBox16589&amp;src=hash\" style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">po Box 16589<\/a>&nbsp;is a post office box that I made into a hashtag:&nbsp;<\/font><font color=\"#000000\" style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23poBox16589&amp;src=hash\" style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">#poBox16589<\/a>&nbsp;&#8212;&nbsp;<\/font><font color=\"#000000\" style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23BCSeutwm&amp;src=hash\" style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">#BCSeutwm<\/a>&nbsp;serves a similar end with a subroutine that is the acronym&#8230;<\/font><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><br \/><\/span><\/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\/616401753039175680?refsrc=email&amp;s=11\">7\/1\/15, 5:23 PM<\/a><\/div>\n<div>Building Credit Score (engineer up tidal wave momentum) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23BCSeutwm&amp;src=hash\">#BCSeutwm<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zJY4nnZNyB\"><span>duck9.com\/blog\/uncategor\u2026<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/image119.jpg\" alt=\"image1.JPG\" id=\"5A0CEFD2-1D3F-4503-8233-DC9CF7F93032\"><\/div>\n<div><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">This post is attempting to sell you on executing free protocols. A protocol is like a recipe. But instead of making chocolate chip cookies or Gua Gua Guacamole, you&#8217;re making money.&nbsp;<\/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=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>By Larry Chiang Starting up is so tough that people block the memory of the pain. Credit scores are no different from starting a tech startup.&nbsp; A common urban myth is that it takes money, spending and borrowing to raise and increase your credit score. Boosting your FICO takes no money. And no investment https:\/\/www.101secrets.com.&nbsp; [&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-5885","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\/5885","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=5885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5885\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}