{"id":6021,"date":"2015-10-08T12:55:46","date_gmt":"2015-10-08T16:55:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/?p=6021"},"modified":"2015-10-08T12:56:44","modified_gmt":"2015-10-08T16:56:44","slug":"kate-brodock-asks-should-my-startup-spend-thousands-at-a-tech-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/kate-brodock-asks-should-my-startup-spend-thousands-at-a-tech-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Kate Brodock Asks SHOULD MY STARTUP SPEND THOUSANDS AT A TECH CONFERENCE"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By Larry Chiang<\/div>\n
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Vested. How vested are you in you. <\/div>\n
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Asked another way, how has your work and effort translated into “shareholder equity”. We will come back to those questions. Let’s focus on Kate Brodock’s <\/b>question <\/div>\n
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<\/span><\/td>\nKate Brodock (@Just_Kate<\/a>)<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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10\/7\/15, 1:13 PM<\/font><\/a><\/div>\n
OK, @untapt<\/a> got into @WebSummit<\/a> ALPHA, asked to pay \u20ac1,950. IS IT WORTH IT? @Jason<\/a> @neilswmurray<\/a> @shashwatpradhan<\/a> (I’m going for free)<\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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<\/span><\/td>\nKate Brodock (@Just_Kate<\/a>)<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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10\/7\/15, 3:22 PM<\/font><\/a><\/div>\n
@LarryChiang<\/a> Larry you can’t just *favorite* my tweet I need your OPINION! \ud83d\ude00<\/span><\/font><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n


My opinion is to get your Return on Investment (ROI) before you go.<\/span><\/div>\n


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<\/span><\/td>\nLarry Chiang (@LarryChiang<\/a>)<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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10\/7\/15, 4:50 PM<\/font><\/a><\/div>\n
If a team can’t get their ROI before #Sundance16<\/a> or #SXSW<\/a>, they’re not #GuaGuaGuacamole<\/a>-ing hard enough @Just_Kate<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n


What is <\/span>Gua Gua Guacamole<\/a> and how does it apply to getting ROI for any big dollar, tech conference. {The general public who never took stanford engineering 145 <\/font> #ENGR145<\/a> is still spending \u20ac1,950 and hoping that the investment pays off after.}<\/span> #GuaGuaGuacamole<\/a> is about adding steps to a recipe to turn it into a legendary recipe. The general public makes instant guac. I started cooking the Four Seasons Austin guacamole 3 days ago. <\/span><\/font><\/div>\n


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Download<\/a> the Twitter app to see all things, #GuaGuaGuacamole<\/a><\/span><\/font><\/div>\n

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Kate Brodock’s <\/b>response to <\/font>#GuaGuaGuacamole<\/a>…<\/font><\/div>\n
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<\/span><\/td>\nKate Brodock (@Just_Kate<\/a>)<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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10\/7\/15, 5:23 PM<\/font><\/a><\/div>\n
@LarryChiang<\/a> Ha! LOVE IT. Thanks Larry \ud83d\ude42<\/span><\/font><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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<\/span><\/td>\nLarry Chiang (@LarryChiang<\/a>)<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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10\/8\/15, 9:12 AM<\/font><\/a><\/div>\n
#GuaGuaGuacamole<\/a> @Just_Kate<\/a> so do a pre #Web2Summit<\/a> mixer in your city. Meet 30-50% of the people you’re wanting to distribute to. Spend $20<\/span><\/font><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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<\/span><\/td>\nLarry Chiang (@LarryChiang<\/a>)<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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10\/8\/15, 9:17 AM<\/font><\/a><\/div>\n
Load up an Eventbrite for that $20 event, @Just_Kate<\/a>. With #GuaGuaGuacamole<\/a> it’ll look like \u20ac3,000. Europeans don’t Gua #GDPflat<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n


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These two co-hosted a party at Palms in Las Vegas in the NBA suite with me and JB Orecchia. They spent sub $30.oo. Know that that took some prep. <\/div>\n
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10\/6\/15, 1:25 PM<\/a><\/div>\n
If Tom Brady were an MS&E undergrad student athlete that no longer played baseball, he’d take #ENGR145<\/a> 11x pic.twitter.com\/GVNDIjxNym<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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By Larry Chiang Vested. How vested are you in you.  Asked another way, how has your work and effort translated into “shareholder equity”. We will come back to those questions. Let’s focus on Kate Brodock’s question  Kate Brodock (@Just_Kate) 10\/7\/15, 1:13 PM OK, @untapt got into @WebSummit ALPHA, asked to pay \u20ac1,950. IS IT WORTH IT? @Jason @neilswmurray @shashwatpradhan (I’m going for free) Kate Brodock […]<\/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-6021","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\/6021","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=6021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6021\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}