{"id":9234,"date":"2016-12-27T14:28:06","date_gmt":"2016-12-27T18:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/?p=9234"},"modified":"2017-01-01T16:41:37","modified_gmt":"2017-01-01T20:41:37","slug":"2016s-most-unpopular-startup-tip-for-tech-founders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/2016s-most-unpopular-startup-tip-for-tech-founders\/","title":{"rendered":"2016&#8217;s Most Unpopular Startup Tip for Tech Founders"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/img_5866.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/img_5866.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"466\" height=\"604\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9246\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/img_5866.jpg 466w, https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/img_5866-231x300.jpg 231w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 466px) 100vw, 466px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\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\/789227100288847872?refsrc=email&amp;s=11\">10\/20\/16, 3:09 PM<\/a><\/div>\n<div>Hi <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jesskah\">@jesskah<\/a>, saw in an article u sold ads as a CS major. What 1st steps did you take? <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23cs183s&amp;src=hash\">#cs183s<\/a> cc <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/roelofbotha\">@roelofbotha<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/triketora\">@triketora<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/c26SNuSnkc\"><span>pic.twitter.com\/c26SNuSnkc<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">There are zero people with an engineering degree willing to walk you through the initial steps of sales execution.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; min-height: 13.8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Like a Mowgli in the woods but without Baloo, Rocky-the-rhino, Akela or father Wolf. Alone!<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"AppleMailSignature\">Tip: do the hashtag #cs183s<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/c26SNuSnkc\" style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><font color=\"#000000\">pic.twitter.com\/c26SNuSnkc<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n<div>\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);\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eudADPfTWiE&amp;sns=em\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eudADPfTWiE&amp;sns=em<\/a><\/span><\/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);\"><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);\"><br \/>\n<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Larry Chiang (@LarryChiang) 10\/20\/16, 3:09 PM Hi @jesskah, saw in an article u sold ads as a CS major. What 1st steps did you take? #cs183s cc @roelofbotha @triketora pic.twitter.com\/c26SNuSnkc There are zero people with an engineering degree willing to walk you through the initial steps of sales execution.&nbsp; Like a Mowgli in the woods [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9234","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=9234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}