{"id":7942,"date":"2016-05-24T19:00:46","date_gmt":"2016-05-24T23:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/?p=7942"},"modified":"2016-06-30T15:34:21","modified_gmt":"2016-06-30T19:34:21","slug":"cs-183abc-the-abcs-of-starting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/cs-183abc-the-abcs-of-starting\/","title":{"rendered":"CS 183abc. The ABC&#8217;s of Starting"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Breaking: The ABC&#39;s of starting from scratch <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/cs183abc?src=hash\">#cs183abc<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4zqSAPGiMD\">https:\/\/t.co\/4zqSAPGiMD<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KHZbYd4x69\">pic.twitter.com\/KHZbYd4x69<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Larry Chiang (@LarryChiang) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LarryChiang\/status\/748600310352908288\">June 30, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>By Larry Chiang<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>Starting is the toughest.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The first 600k is the hardest.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">Basic customer service.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">Basic sales.\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">Basic execution.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">Basic arbitrage.\u00a0<\/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\" \/><\/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\/733362067759992832?refsrc=email&amp;s=11\">5\/19\/16, 11:21 AM<\/a><\/div>\n<div>EBay can be part of your momentum as a 19 yo starting. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23cs183abc&amp;src=hash\">#cs183abc<\/a> is the ABC&#8217;s of start-up <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23Startup&amp;src=hash\">#Startup<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23growthHacking&amp;src=hash\">#growthHacking<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/t2RyIeKoX6\">twitter.com\/ebay\/status\/73\u2026<\/a><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"7385F919-7C86-46D5-956A-45495EBD84AE\" src=\"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/image1-9.jpg\" alt=\"image1.JPG\" \/><br \/>\nAfter you sell one item on eBay, text me<br \/>\n<span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); color: #000000;\">&#8220;<a style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23growthHacking&amp;src=hash\">#growthHacking<\/a>&#8221; with your eBay user name.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); color: #000000;\">Pez dispensers\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"6508FBF4-C289-4D74-A85E-C216EE33071E\" src=\"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/image2-7.jpg\" alt=\"image2.JPG\" \/><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); color: #000000;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); color: #000000;\">Basic arbitrage skills lead to sales and selling skills. Simple Halloween costumes. Set the entrepreneurship bell curve.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<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\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WVKHwYJzVVc&amp;sns=em<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"148CF31B-F576-4331-B9A6-C9CE26B68143\" src=\"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/image3-6.jpg\" alt=\"image3.JPG\" \/><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div>Santa Con. It&#8217;s the second Saturday of December and you sell costumes for $139.99<\/div>\n<div>They cost under $8.oo<\/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);\">Subscribe\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/larrychiang\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/larrychiang<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Breaking: The ABC&#39;s of starting from scratch #cs183abc https:\/\/t.co\/4zqSAPGiMD pic.twitter.com\/KHZbYd4x69 &mdash; Larry Chiang (@LarryChiang) June 30, 2016 By Larry Chiang Starting is the toughest. The first 600k is the hardest. Basic customer service.\u00a0 Basic sales.\u00a0 Basic execution.\u00a0 Basic arbitrage.\u00a0 Larry Chiang (@LarryChiang) 5\/19\/16, 11:21 AM EBay can be part of your momentum as a 19 [&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-7942","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\/7942","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=7942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7942\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}