{"id":9222,"date":"2016-12-26T14:49:24","date_gmt":"2016-12-26T18:49:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/?p=9222"},"modified":"2016-12-26T20:00:55","modified_gmt":"2016-12-27T00:00:55","slug":"buy-once-cry-once","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/buy-once-cry-once\/","title":{"rendered":"Buy Once, Cry Once"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>By Larry Chiang<\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div>If you&#8217;re studying<span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23cs183s&amp;src=hash\">#cs183s<\/a>&nbsp;over Christmas break, yay for you, you brown nosing turds &#x1f64a;<\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div>CS 183 s is sales for CS majors selling to execs. Here is a seasoned exec. He&#8217;s a cliche exec at 40 years old -\/+ 10 years.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<table style=\"border: 1px solid black; padding: 8px;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"bottom\">\n<td width=\"48\"><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/3344158378\/c2d273e83a9f7eff27fc1e1fa4bf4b6a_normal.jpeg\" style=\"width: 48px; height: 48px; padding-right: 8px;\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td><b style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">Jeremiah Owyang (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jowyang?refsrc=email&amp;s=11\">@jowyang<\/a>)<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\">\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jowyang\/status\/813426771026591744?refsrc=email&amp;s=11\" style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><font color=\"#000000\">12\/26\/16, 8:50 AM<\/font><\/a><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">As I get older, it&#8217;s easier to appreciate &#8220;buy once, cry once&#8221; &#8211;get quality, and hopefully less waste.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">Buy once cry once implies &#8220;I don&#8217;t wanna have to re execute the RFP process every year only-to-be-disappointed-every-18-months-when-I-fire-the-vendor&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">Let me repeat. When I was an undergrad, I had to learn&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">&#8211; second supplier gambit [Lec 11;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23cs183s&amp;src=hash\">#cs183s<\/a>]<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">&#8211; a crap ton of sales stuff that I boiled down into 20 videos over at The YouTube.&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23cs183s&amp;src=hash\">#cs183s<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<table style=\"border: 1px solid black; padding: 8px;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"bottom\">\n<td width=\"48\"><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/613751289587957760\/ZN0VKUOa_normal.jpg\" style=\"width: 48px; height: 48px; padding-right: 8px;\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td><b style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">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\/813450425726681088?refsrc=email&amp;s=11\" style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><font color=\"#000000\">12\/26\/16, 10:24 AM<\/font><\/a><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">Undergrads. This is how &#8220;seasoned&#8221; execs buy shitake.&nbsp;<br \/>\nVet, remove, eliminate risk &amp; friction as the entititled turds of the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23cs183s&amp;src=hash\">#cs183s<\/a>, U are&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/z2wWSZMc1r\">twitter.com\/jowyang\/status\u2026<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"AppleMailSignature\"><\/div>\n<table style=\"border:1px solid black;padding:8px;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"bottom\">\n<td width=\"48\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/613751289587957760\/ZN0VKUOa_normal.jpg\" style=\"width:48px;height:48px;padding-right:8px;\"><\/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\/813452616462012416?refsrc=email&amp;s=11\">12\/26\/16, 10:33 AM<\/a><\/div>\n<div>Undergrads. This is how &#8220;seasoned&#8221; execs buy.<br \/>\nVet, remove, eliminate friction and risk.  <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23cs183s&amp;src=hash\">#cs183s<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jowyang\">@jowyang<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/22B9DbxxGZ\"><span>pic.twitter.com\/22B9DbxxGZ<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"AppleMailSignature\">\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/image1-19.jpg\" alt=\"image1.JPG\" id=\"6D65D5F8-5120-4165-A4DC-4CB3B67484E9\">\n<\/div>\n<div>Text me for the article: &#8220;10 Best Entrepreneurship Stories of 2016&#8221;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Larry Chiang If you&#8217;re studying&nbsp;#cs183s&nbsp;over Christmas break, yay for you, you brown nosing turds &#x1f64a; CS 183 s is sales for CS majors selling to execs. Here is a seasoned exec. He&#8217;s a cliche exec at 40 years old -\/+ 10 years.&nbsp; Jeremiah Owyang (@jowyang) 12\/26\/16, 8:50 AM As I get older, it&#8217;s easier [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cs-major-cro-chief-revenue-officer"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9222","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=9222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}