{"id":6372,"date":"2015-11-07T21:27:37","date_gmt":"2015-11-08T01:27:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/?p=6372"},"modified":"2015-11-07T21:27:37","modified_gmt":"2015-11-08T01:27:37","slug":"you-start-by-doing-tough-stuff-later-it-will-flow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/you-start-by-doing-tough-stuff-later-it-will-flow\/","title":{"rendered":"You Start By Doing Tough Stuff (Later it will FLOW)"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The best people to hire and pay are the people that you spot doing the work now<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Larry Chiang (@LarryChiang) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LarryChiang\/status\/661968542858776576\">November 4, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>By Larry Chiang<\/p>\n<p>So, when I was starting, someone at a Fortune 500 caught me doing work.<\/p>\n<p>You want to let people catch you doing things.<br \/>\nOld executive people wanna hire people that did the exact project for some other executive.<\/p>\n<p>When you&#8217;re doing a startup, you want to be doing work.<br \/>\nWhen youre wanting an internship, you want to be doing the work.<\/p>\n<p>The old way was to work speculatively and not get paid.<br \/>\nThe new way is #InternalEscrow<\/p>\n<p>The old way was wait for VC money (venture capital money)<br \/>\nThe new way is to execute &#8220;deep underground capital knowledge&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The old way was for your new startup to wait for a Fortune 500 contract<br \/>\nThe new way is #OneWayLetterOfIntent<\/p>\n<p>The old way was #dttds (Paul Graham&#8217;s essay https:\/\/bit.ly\/pGrahamCh6<br \/>\nThe new way is #dttdsBHM (still the PG essay, but with my notes<\/p>\n<p>You start by doing tough stuff<br \/>\nYou start by &#8216;doing things that don&#8217;t scale&#8217;<br \/>\nYou start by doing #dttdsBHM and later it BHM&#8217;s (flows). But Has Momentum = BHM = &#8216;flow&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The best people to hire and pay are the people that you spot doing the work now &mdash; Larry Chiang (@LarryChiang) November 4, 2015 By Larry Chiang So, when I was starting, someone at a Fortune 500 caught me doing work. You want to let people catch you doing things. Old executive people wanna hire [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deep-underground-capital-knowledge"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6372","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=6372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6372\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}