{"id":602,"date":"2012-04-25T11:54:01","date_gmt":"2012-04-25T15:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/?p=602"},"modified":"2014-09-04T00:21:03","modified_gmt":"2014-09-04T04:21:03","slug":"stanford-engr-145-summer-with-larry-chiang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/stanford-engr-145-summer-with-larry-chiang\/","title":{"rendered":"Stanford ENGR 145 Summer with Larry Chiang"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Larry Chiang<\/p>\n<p>ENGR 145 summer students.<\/p>\n<p>Yes you signed up at <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/buster14512\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/buster14512<\/a><\/p>\n<p>You will enjoy the adventure that is a GREAT CLASS in entrepreneurship. It&#8217;s taught by the legendary Tom Kosnik. It was started by Tom Byers and sits under STVP. It is the organization headed up by Tina Seelig. She is a great teacher and mentor to me in brainstorming and creativity. She also wrote InGenius and &#8220;What I Wish I Knew in My 20s&#8221;. Steve Blank has taught this class too.<\/p>\n<p>Lets take this class to the next, next level. As your classmate, class crasher and sometimes bus-boy and motivational listener, I&#8217;ll help you<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Launch at Demo in OCTOBER (officially).<br \/>\n&#8211; Premier at Summit at Stanford<br \/>\n&#8211; Grand Open\/ Crash TechCrunch &#8216;Disrupt&#8217; in August with Eric Eldon disapproval?? \/ Josh Constine snickers<br \/>\n&#8211; Co-host at August Capital the Official TechCrunch AfterParty. August 3.<br \/>\n&#8211; Host LPs Officially.<br \/>\n&#8211; Promo your mini company at a Hollywood super agent mixer if you have something that disrupts Hollywood in a value-added-Sequel-business manner and method.<br \/>\n&#8211; Co-host MBFW in February.<br \/>\n&#8211; Host athletes.<br \/>\n&#8211; Network with supermodels who may testimonialize your MVP (minimum viable party).<br \/>\n&#8211; Sell the Gua Gua Guacamole signature recipes I teach you.<br \/>\n&#8211; Master &#8216;Reduce sales friction&#8217;<br \/>\n&#8211; Learn from 33+ legendary undergrad \/grad \/ celebrity ENGR 145 alums.<br \/>\n&#8211; Read ahead to the summer 2013 program: &#8216;Ga Ga Guaranteed exits&#8217;. As my movie mentor Ricky Bobby says: it&#8217;s guaranteed to work every time 70% of the time.<br \/>\n&#8211; Host a SXSW party and make money doing a party that lead generates (#leadGen!!) for you ENGR 145 mini-company.<\/p>\n<p>INSIGHT: the silicon valley is out there cluelessly starting startups that might fail. Will fail. 80% of VC funded startups with a SVB bank account won&#8217;t get revenue. Start a mini company instead. Mini company&#8217;s are bought. The &#8220;Larry Chiang Mini Company Concept&#8221; is a prequel to 2013 Ga Ga Guaranteed exits. Those are buried in my Twitter feed like Easter eggs. Sept 2011-Mar 2012<\/p>\n<p>ENGR 145 summer. Master and sell Gua Gua Guacamole to a curious public. Yes you can apply to audit as a return ENGR 145 class taker.<\/p>\n<p>This will be my third summer.<\/p>\n<p>CEO of Duck9<br \/>\nStanford University EIR (Entrepreneur in Residence)<\/p>\n<p>Update:<br \/>\nThink safer entrepreneurship.<br \/>\nRemember, you&#8217;re at a college that only gives out As and Bs, but the faculty tells you to &#8220;take risks while you&#8217;re young&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Why?<\/p>\n<p>The results.<\/p>\n<p>Your li&#8217;l ENGR 145 project should be pitched from The Stage at TC Disrupt. All the teams I advised were on track to demo at<br \/>\n&#8211; Demo<br \/>\n&#8211; google I\/O<br \/>\n&#8211; TechCrunch Disrupt<br \/>\n&#8211; GigaOm<br \/>\n&#8211; VentureBeat<\/p>\n<p>The most common objection was &#8220;I don&#8217;t want to be famous for my ENGR 145 project because I have imposter syndrome&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Larry Chiang ENGR 145 summer students. 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