{"id":7846,"date":"2016-05-05T16:42:19","date_gmt":"2016-05-05T20:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/?p=7846"},"modified":"2016-05-05T19:23:10","modified_gmt":"2016-05-05T23:23:10","slug":"office-hours-at-a-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/office-hours-at-a-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Office Hours at a Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\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\/728229987099123712?refsrc=email&amp;s=11\">5\/5\/16, 7:28 AM<\/a><\/div>\n<div>Nasdaq Happy Hour <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%2310May2016&amp;src=hash\">#10May2016<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23SiliconValley&amp;src=hash\">#SiliconValley<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6MLglln7Db\">eventbrite.com\/e\/xignite-and-\u2026<\/a><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>By Larry Chiang<\/p><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I will be at this party<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I will be easy to fund.<\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"4256BD07-7483-4105-88D4-86A2643320FB\" src=\"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/image110.jpg\" alt=\"image1.JPG\" \/><br \/>\nI think of parties as the front lines of entrepreneurship. Whether or not adoption occurs depends on how well you network at parties. Remember, so many engineering VCs say: &#8220;Your initial users come from manually invitations.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Recruiting users manually <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Jd37Tuw1Ho\">https:\/\/t.co\/Jd37Tuw1Ho<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Theresa Quintanilla (@QViews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/QViews\/status\/362913302902341632\">August 1, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&quot;recruit users manually.  Nearly all startups have to&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/E05GvEnDI3\">https:\/\/t.co\/E05GvEnDI3<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/cs183yC?src=hash\">#cs183yC<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jqSuuDjbPo\">pic.twitter.com\/jqSuuDjbPo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Larry Chiang (@LarryChiang) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LarryChiang\/status\/728363984043139072\">May 5, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Larry Chiang (@LarryChiang) 5\/5\/16, 7:28 AM Nasdaq Happy Hour #10May2016 #SiliconValley eventbrite.com\/e\/xignite-and-\u2026 By Larry Chiang I will be at this party I will be easy to fund. I think of parties as the front lines of entrepreneurship. Whether or not adoption occurs depends on how well you network at parties. Remember, so many engineering VCs [&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-7846","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\/7846","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=7846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}