{"id":817,"date":"2012-06-09T10:07:59","date_gmt":"2012-06-09T14:07:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/?p=817"},"modified":"2017-03-02T14:31:37","modified_gmt":"2017-03-02T18:31:37","slug":"larry-chiangs-30-second-mba-on-fast-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/larry-chiangs-30-second-mba-on-fast-company\/","title":{"rendered":"Larry Chiang&#8217;s &#8220;30 Second MBA&#8221; Series on Fast Company"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Larry Chiang<\/p>\n<p>Getting an MBA used to take 2 years. I had to get it to you A.D.D. Stanford kids in under 30 seconds. How&#8217;d I do?<\/p>\n<p class=\"post__deck\">Business school is great for two things: the knowledge and the network<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/3011708\/larry-chiang-what-conventional-wisdom-have-you-found-to-be-totally-wrong\">https:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/3011708\/larry-chiang-what-conventional-wisdom-have-you-found-to-be-totally-wrong<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"post__deck\">How to get a VC you don&#8217;t know to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/3011723\/larry-chiang-funding-101\">mentor<\/a> you. &#8220;when you\u2019re talking to a VC, that you should just not try to ask them for money, but ask them for ideas. One of the things that speed seduces a VC is the ability to be &#8216;capital efficient&#8217;. When you have a super fast ROI for conference costs, this is a great thing<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/3011689\/larry-chiang-how-do-you-determine-your-roi-before-you-get-to-a-conference\">https:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/3011689\/larry-chiang-how-do-you-determine-your-roi-before-you-get-to-a-conference<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Business school is great for two things: the knowledge and the network<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/3011708\/larry-chiang-what-conventional-wisdom-have-you-found-to-be-totally-wrong\">https:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/3011708\/larry-chiang-what-conventional-wisdom-have-you-found-to-be-totally-wrong<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Need money?! VCs have spades!<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;the best way to get money out of a VC is to initially ask them for advice&#8221;<br \/>\n-Larry Chiang, CEO duck9<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/3011723\/larry-chiang-funding-101\">https:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/3011723\/larry-chiang-funding-101<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><embed src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/BMyLcDaWazU&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed> CEO of Duck9 Stanford University EIR (Entrepreneur in Residence)<\/p>\n<p>Duck9 = Deep Underground Credit Knowledge 9 125 University Avenue\/ 100 Palo Alto CA 94301 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/ass\">https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/ass<\/a> 650-566-9600 650-566-9696 (direct) 650-283-8008 (cell)<\/p>\n<p>**************** Editor of the BusinessWeek Channel &#8220;What They Don&#8217;t Teach at Business School&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/whattheydontteachyouatstanfordbusinessschool.com\/blog\">https:\/\/whattheydontteachyouatstanfordbusinessschool.com\/blog<\/a> CNN Video Channel: <a href=\"https:\/\/ireport.cnn.com\/people\/larrychiang\">https:\/\/ireport.cnn.com\/people\/larrychiang<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read my last 10 tweets at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.Twitter.com\/LarryChiang\">https:\/\/www.Twitter.com\/LarryChiang<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Author, NY Times Bestseller <a href=\"https:\/\/whattheydontteachyouatstanfordbusinessschool.com\/blog\/?s=Ny+times+bestseller\">https:\/\/whattheydontteachyouatstanfordbusinessschool.com\/blog\/?s=Ny+times+bestseller<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What They Will NEVER Teach You at Stanford Business School&#8221; comes out 11-11-14<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/embed\/c0d4562ea2049\">https:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/embed\/c0d4562ea2049<\/a><\/p>\n<p>52 Cards. Two Jokers. What They DO Teach You at Stanford Engineering <embed src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/vDBY0GkI3-g&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/p>\n<p>Emergency swings and cutting deals as an 9 year old <embed src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/OFGY7v9C4G0&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/p>\n<p>########## Duck9 is part of UCMS Inc. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucms.com\">https:\/\/www.ucms.com<\/a> 630-705-5555<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Larry Chiang Getting an MBA used to take 2 years. I had to get it to you A.D.D. Stanford kids in under 30 seconds. How&#8217;d I do? Business school is great for two things: the knowledge and the network https:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/3011708\/larry-chiang-what-conventional-wisdom-have-you-found-to-be-totally-wrong How to get a VC you don&#8217;t know to mentor you. &#8220;when you\u2019re talking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-credit-secrets","category-stanford-engineering"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817","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=817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}