{"id":7376,"date":"2016-04-09T09:32:12","date_gmt":"2016-04-09T13:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/?p=7376"},"modified":"2016-04-09T09:43:09","modified_gmt":"2016-04-09T13:43:09","slug":"fire-prevention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/fire-prevention\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire Prevention"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>By Larry Chiang<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Getting fired stinks!<\/div>\n<div>Getting fired and losing two years worth of wages stinks a lot. Getting fired from your own startup is just that: Losing your job and ALSO losing two years, or four, of wages.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>[Oh did they let you keep what you vested? well there will probably be a <b>recapitalization,&nbsp;<\/b>later; ie, you lose of your vest ;-]<\/p>\n<p>Getting fired stinks. This is fire prevention.&nbsp;<\/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\/594898606823346176?refsrc=email&amp;s=11\">5\/3\/15, 9:17 AM<\/a><\/div>\n<div>As an engineer, CS major or tech CTO, sales skills keep you from getting fired <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23ENGR145s&amp;src=hash\">#ENGR145s<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23CTCFTR&amp;src=hash\">#CTCFTR<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CeAc26hXlh\"><span>pic.twitter.com\/CeAc26hXlh<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Fire prevention means having countermeasures to getting fired. An ounce of prevention<\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/image116.jpg\" alt=\"image1.JPG\" id=\"AFF1FB96-B9A2-49C9-92F1-D8492CE3C566\"><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);\">Practice selling is the best form of real world insurance:&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/image26.jpg\" alt=\"image2.JPG\" id=\"A64352A7-CAFA-460B-BFD5-8D955DF120FD\"><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);\">Step #1. Do an LCMCC.&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);\">EUBM is here<\/span><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/image33.jpg\" alt=\"image3.JPG\" id=\"975F470F-E8E1-45B2-B455-E9FC37BD6441\"><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);\">LCMCC and EUBM are both in this Stanford Engineering Entrepreneurship Video&nbsp;<br \/><\/span>&#8220;Cross the Chasm From The Right&#8221;<\/div>\n<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 Getting fired stinks! Getting fired and losing two years worth of wages stinks a lot. Getting fired from your own startup is just that: Losing your job and ALSO losing two years, or four, of wages.&nbsp; [Oh did they let you keep what you vested? well there will probably be a recapitalization,&nbsp;later; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stanford-engineering"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7376","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=7376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}