{"id":899,"date":"2012-10-05T11:10:25","date_gmt":"2012-10-05T15:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/?p=899"},"modified":"2012-10-05T11:25:48","modified_gmt":"2012-10-05T15:25:48","slug":"what-georges-doriot-would-teach-engineers-who-are-to-be-vcs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/what-georges-doriot-would-teach-engineers-who-are-to-be-vcs\/","title":{"rendered":"What Georges Doriot Would Teach Engineers Who Are to Be VCs"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Larry Chiang<\/p>\n

Georges Doriot taught at Harvard Business School in the 50s. He was quoted by a lot of legendary VCs in the movie “Something Ventured”.<\/p>\n

Here are 3 things he’d teach today’s engineer about to get their Stanford MBA \/ apply to the GSB<\/p>\n

-1- How to Read (Tech Blogs)<\/p>\n

Read obituaries in NY Times first = Georges Doriot advice.<\/p>\n

Skip the Techmeme Apple stories, TechCrunch\/VentureBeat\/GigaOm VC funding headlines and regurgitation of vanity metrics. Crank through the deep-dives by googling a problem. Reading. Then solving that problem<\/p>\n

-2- How many drinks to drink at a networking party<\/p>\n

Georges Doriot advised drinking limited drinks at a party.<\/p>\n

I recommend drinking zero and acting drunk. Act drunk using the Chubbock method. You do not need chemical to feel heady, disoriented, uninhibited and off-balance.<\/p>\n

Can you call up drunkenness on command?! Can you go from drunk to 110% alert, sober and able to solve Fourier equations?! I can.<\/p>\n

-3- Georges Doriot had one good VC investment.<\/p>\n

None of his legendary students who as VCs bought into deals like Apple, Tandem, Intel, and Cisco ever cut Georges Doriot in on good deals.<\/p>\n

What Georges Doriot would teach is to focus on making VC deals versus just teaching and hoping that teaching gets you deal flow.<\/p>\n

OR don’t start an institution like Insead and just focus on teaching at HBS \/ making investments.<\/p>\n

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It moves you to the right on the entrepreneur bell curve <\/p>\n

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By Larry Chiang Georges Doriot taught at Harvard Business School in the 50s. He was quoted by a lot of legendary VCs in the movie “Something Ventured”. Here are 3 things he’d teach today’s engineer about to get their Stanford MBA \/ apply to the GSB -1- How to Read (Tech Blogs) Read obituaries in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-credit-secrets"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899","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=899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}