{"id":7511,"date":"2016-04-19T12:54:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-19T16:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/?p=7511"},"modified":"2016-04-19T14:17:57","modified_gmt":"2016-04-19T18:17:57","slug":"networking-in-silicon-valley-seems-like-name-dropping-in-anytown-usa-eg-new-york-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/networking-in-silicon-valley-seems-like-name-dropping-in-anytown-usa-eg-new-york-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Networking In Silicon Valley Seems Like Name Dropping (in Anytown USA eg New York City)"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n
\n
By Larry Chiang<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
I was born in New York, so I can say bad things about my home state: It’s negative and the people are negative.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Being negative is fine if you’re in banking. In fact it’s healthy. Being negative when you’re trying to network in\u00a0Silicon Valley<\/a>\u00a0is a bad thing. For example, when you bring up a brand name, name in conversation…<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
\"\"<\/span><\/td>\nLarry Chiang (@LarryChiang<\/a>)<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n
4\/18\/16, 3:05 PM<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
In\u00a0#SiliconValley<\/a>, it’s not name dropping. It’s an invitation to ask me, point blank, for an email intro to that same person<\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n
\"\"<\/span><\/td>\nCinapse (@CinapseNews<\/a>)<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n
4\/19\/16, 7:15 AM<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
SILICON VALLEY Season 2<\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

\"image1.JPG\"<\/div>\n

Networking in Silicon Valley is a lot like networking on the HBO show\u00a0<\/span>Silicon Valley<\/a>. Except there isn’t a Larry Chiang.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
\n\n\n\n\n
\"\"<\/td>\nLarry Chiang (@LarryChiang<\/a>)<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n
4\/18\/16, 7:04 AM<\/a><\/div>\n
You will never find a more welcoming place than #SiliconValley<\/a>. ie #GES2016<\/a>. And yes, we all luv #sxsw<\/a> twitter.com\/USAID\/status\/7\u2026<\/a><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

\"image2.JPG\"<\/div>\n

#1 thing you should read is my mentors #Ch4: Networking.<\/div>\n

\n<\/span><\/div>\n
\n
\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
<\/div>\n

\n<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Larry Chiang I was born in New York, so I can say bad things about my home state: It’s negative and the people are negative. Being negative is fine if you’re in banking. In fact it’s healthy. Being negative when you’re trying to network in\u00a0Silicon Valley\u00a0is a bad thing. For example, when you bring […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stanford-entrepreneurship"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7511","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=7511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7511\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}