By Larry Chiang<\/p>\n
Mentorship is cool.<\/p>\n
I love mentorship. And sometimes because my IQ is a li’l lower than most, I have to really leverage mentorship by listening and watching alpha males like the way a Shih Tzu watches and studies and stares intently.<\/p>\n
Paul Graham (PG) is an incredible mentor to teams and teams of startups. At Startup School at Stanford, he said:<\/p>\n
Larry Chiang \u2730 (@LarryChiang) 10\/21\/12 10:21 AM RT @mehulkar: “I really wish there more people with companies that started them than the other way around” -PG #startupschool<\/p>\n
What I think he is saying is that it is bad to be an “accidental entrepreneur”. If he is saying this then I (as a pattern recognizer) say: “Do what PG does, not what he is quoted out of context saying”<\/p>\n
I’m pattern recognizing that Mr Paul didn’t set out to co-found a VC firm. That became a top tier VC firm. Paul Graham is an accidental VC.<\/p>\n
My opinion* is that you SHOULD be an accidental entrepreneur. As an engineering undergrad, why take a risk when you can make $140k?!<\/p>\n
Risk Mitigate Risk Minimize Risk Eliminate<\/p>\n
I’m saying do a LC ‘Mini Company Concept’ that resembles a lemonade stand #LCMCC.<\/p>\n
ENGR145’s Anchor Concept: Lemonade and Gua Gua Guacamole<\/p>\n
It moves you to the right on the entrepreneur bell curve <\/p>\n
At MIT, as EIR I coach engineers on a program: “Engineering Entrepreneurship Education for People Who May Never Be A Founder”<\/p>\n
*based on 60,000 hours of entrepreneur expertise (that I read in over 500 books on Startups)<\/p>\n
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