{"id":7393,"date":"2016-04-09T14:21:23","date_gmt":"2016-04-09T18:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/?p=7393"},"modified":"2016-04-10T15:58:20","modified_gmt":"2016-04-10T19:58:20","slug":"focus-you-must","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/focus-you-must\/","title":{"rendered":"Focus, You Must"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>By Larry Chiang<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Focus. On. This. Hashtagged. Box.<\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"704C497C-33F9-4D41-A21F-8C63D7823303\" src=\"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/image35.jpg\" alt=\"image3.JPG\" \/><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">Customer development cycle. Four Steps to the Epiphany.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">Meet<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div>The Innovation Chasm.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I might be the only person in Silicon Valley who DJ&#8217;s &#8220;<span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">Customer development cycle&#8221; (Steve Blank\/Eric Ries) to Geoffrey Moore (Chasm \/ Escape Velocity) to Paul Graham. If they had a series of meetings and then simplified their genius, they&#8217;d spit: &#8220;<\/span><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); color: #000000;\"><a style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23cs183s&amp;src=hash\">#cs183s<\/a>&#8220;<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"F906B60F-109D-458D-AB60-0527608AEC75\" src=\"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/image119.jpg\" alt=\"image1.JPG\" \/><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">Yes PG&#8217;s Lec 3;\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23cs183s&amp;src=hash\">#cs183b<\/a><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">. And his &#8220;What Altair Basic is this the Microsoft of&#8221;, essay.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"38F8BAFA-D932-41D6-9655-322851A9A9CF\" src=\"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/image43.jpg\" alt=\"image4.JPG\" \/><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div>Phallic symbolism aside, you do place the penis shaped graph in the vagina of the Chasm<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Let me repeat, Steve Blank, Geoffrey Moore and Paul Graham have content that meshes and dovetails<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<table style=\"border: 1px solid black; padding: 8px;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"bottom\">\n<td width=\"48\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 48px; height: 48px; padding-right: 8px;\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/613751289587957760\/ZN0VKUOa_normal.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/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\/597225853072748544?refsrc=email&amp;s=11\">5\/9\/15, 7:25 PM<\/a><\/div>\n<div>Customer development cycle; a vertical to the right of the innovation chasm <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23ENGR145s&amp;src=hash\">#ENGR145s<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23CTCFTR&amp;src=hash\">#CTCFTR<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23cs183s&amp;src=hash\">#cs183s<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hz8xxdvSk8\">pic.twitter.com\/hz8xxdvSk8<\/a><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"881E60AC-DC00-49DA-917F-0BA169FBC674\" src=\"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/image29.jpg\" alt=\"image2.JPG\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>My PhD thesis is spelled out here<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">\u00a0<\/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 src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/WVKHwYJzVVc&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Larry Chiang Focus. On. This. Hashtagged. Box. Customer development cycle. Four Steps to the Epiphany.\u00a0 \u00a0 Meet \u00a0 The Innovation Chasm. I might be the only person in Silicon Valley who DJ&#8217;s &#8220;Customer development cycle&#8221; (Steve Blank\/Eric Ries) to Geoffrey Moore (Chasm \/ Escape Velocity) to Paul Graham. If they had a series of [&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-7393","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\/7393","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=7393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7393\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}