{"id":6104,"date":"2015-10-17T13:01:11","date_gmt":"2015-10-17T17:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/?p=6104"},"modified":"2015-10-17T13:06:29","modified_gmt":"2015-10-17T17:06:29","slug":"starting-is-so-hard-and-painful-no-one-talks-about-it-no-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/starting-is-so-hard-and-painful-no-one-talks-about-it-no-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Starting is so hard and painful, no one talks about it. No one!!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By Larry Chiang<\/div>\n
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I have this theorem. It’s proven. If it were not proven, it’d be a theory. <\/div>\n
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My theorem is that starting a startup is so painful that no one talks about the first steps. I count. I listen. I sit up near the front. <\/div>\n
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Photo credit Dan Olson, #ProdMgmnt keynote by BJ Fogg. 
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This is what pattern I see… Coverage of startup’s are wayyyyy after the startup is up and going. The startup has momentum and a life of its own. Stories told by founders are almost always about the crazy MOMEMTUM in flow. <\/div>\n
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So, I call this the BHM part of… #dttdsBHM<\/a> <\/span><\/div>\n
Do Things That Don’t Scale, BUT HAVE MOMENTUM. <\/div>\n
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10\/16\/15, 10:01 AM<\/font><\/a><\/div>\n
The BHM part @lwu<\/a>. #dttdsBHM<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/ybKeKNMUEH<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n


Theorem goes the #dttds<\/a> portion is largely hidden. Take Lec 3; cs183b. The author of #dttds<\/a> Paul Graham procrastinated the pain in his own lecture until question number 11 (citation required via link to my own blog post I’m too lazy to google)<\/p>\n

Let us attack the first couple steps<\/span><\/div>\n


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10\/16\/15, 10:04 AM<\/font><\/a><\/div>\n
At @danolsen<\/a>‘s #ProdMgmnt<\/a> meet up, @lwu<\/a>, this @bjfogg<\/a> slide parallel PG’s essay #dttdsBHM<\/a> bit.ly\/pgraham710<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/b1d0xcSjn0<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n


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10\/17\/15, 9:32 AM<\/font><\/a><\/div>\n
ICYMI: 95+% of startup education is the “BHM” portion of #dttdsBHM<\/a>. YC too and they invented DTTDSbhm<\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n


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Lecture 8; CS 183b. Stanley Tang. <\/span><\/div>\n

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10\/17\/15, 9:33 AM<\/a><\/div>\n
@LarryChiang<\/a> studied and later curated #dttdsBHM<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/UGubHuhJTf<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

If you’re a voracious consumer of startup advice, maybe consider curating and filtering the BHM FROM the #dttdsBHM<\/a> <\/span><\/div>\n


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The dttds portion is made easier with 35 hashtag’s inside these two #ENGR145 videos<\/span><\/div>\n
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By Larry Chiang I have this theorem. It’s proven. If it were not proven, it’d be a theory.  My theorem is that starting a startup is so painful that no one talks about the first steps. I count. I listen. I sit up near the front.  Photo credit Dan Olson, #ProdMgmnt keynote by BJ Fogg. This […]<\/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-6104","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\/6104","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=6104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}