{"id":9760,"date":"2017-03-20T12:56:43","date_gmt":"2017-03-20T16:56:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/?p=9760"},"modified":"2017-03-23T10:04:38","modified_gmt":"2017-03-23T14:04:38","slug":"gaps-and-chasms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/gaps-and-chasms\/","title":{"rendered":"Gaps and More Gaps Before A Gaping &#8220;Chasm&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>By Larry Chiang<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I try to fill in the gaps for when VC&#8217;s talk in their attempt to mentor us.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>My experience comes from being a start practitioner, startup board member, postmortem editor and all around curious guy. Let&#8217;s fill in some gaps.<\/p>\n<p>-1- Gap #1: The ABCs of startup.<br \/>\nThere is an a, b, c series at Stanford. Yes, the famous CS 183(a), #cs183b and #cs183c. There are so many gaps that I needed more than all the letters of the alphabet combined. #cs183a34z.<\/p>\n<p>Gaps and more gaps.<br \/>\n-2- Mark Suster has gaps in his prolific blogging effort. Mainly, how he, Mark Suster, crossed the chasm TWICE.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Mark <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/msuster\">@msuster<\/a> did this 2x but still did not explain his success w 1 picture. So, I took 45 seconds to &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MapMyFitness\">@MapMyFitness<\/a>&#8221; out, for your basecamp <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VGKmA2McXK\">pic.twitter.com\/VGKmA2McXK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Larry Chiang (@LarryChiang) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LarryChiang\/status\/843854044963590144\">March 20, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>-3- See Mark Suster&#8217;s basecamp blog post<\/p>\n<p>-4- Chasms kill startups dead a lot of the time<\/p>\n<p>The Geoffrey Moore book series* has been extrapolated. If you read all of Moore&#8217;s books, you would agree with my &#8220;Cross the Chasm FROM THE RIGHT&#8221; theorems.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/image1-18.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-9221 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/image1-18-e1490032441432.jpg\" alt=\"image1-18\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/image1-18-e1490032441432.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/image1-18-e1490032441432-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nChasms. It would be hilarious if chasms would not kill so many yC startups.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>-5- you place your resources at the point that could be an inflection point<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"54FA8C79-D496-4E11-9A62-EB93234A153E\" src=\"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/image1-21.jpg\" alt=\"image1.JPG\"><\/p>\n<p>-6-&nbsp;<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StanfordEng\">StanfordEng<\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23ENGR145&amp;src=hash\">#ENGR145<\/a>&nbsp;gap<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">&nbsp;UT ends ~May14.&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">Summer qtr&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Stanford\">@Stanford<\/a>&nbsp;STARTS&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%2326Jun2017&amp;src=hash\">#26Jun2017<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Five weeks!!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<table style=\"border: 1px solid black; padding: 8px;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"bottom\">\n<td width=\"48\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 48px; height: 48px; padding-right: 8px;\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/613751289587957760\/ZN0VKUOa_normal.jpg\"><\/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\/843849239239118849?refsrc=email&amp;s=11\">3\/20\/17, 8:38 AM<\/a><\/div>\n<div>Do you know about the secret <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StanfordEng\">@StanfordEng<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23ENGR145&amp;src=hash\">#ENGR145<\/a> gap? UT ends ~May14. Summer qtr <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Stanford\">@Stanford<\/a> STARTS <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%2326Jun2017&amp;src=hash\">#26Jun2017<\/a> cc <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23sxsw&amp;src=hash\">#sxsw<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gNhbbMYHAx\">pic.twitter.com\/gNhbbMYHAx<\/a><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><br \/>\n-7- The perfect summer in Silicon Valley means taking Tom Kosnik&#8217;s #ENGR145 class (costs $10k) and then getting your Return on Investment (ROI) before class even starts.<\/p>\n<p>You. Have. A. Gap.<\/p>\n<p>Whip out your moleskin notebook and start to get that $10,000 you&#8217;re gonna need for summer 2017 before you even set foot in Silicon Valley. Start taking notes on two videos<\/p>\n<p><\/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);\">&nbsp;<\/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><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Larry Chiang I try to fill in the gaps for when VC&#8217;s talk in their attempt to mentor us. My experience comes from being a start practitioner, startup board member, postmortem editor and all around curious guy. Let&#8217;s fill in some gaps. -1- Gap #1: The ABCs of startup. There is an a, b, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deep-underground-capital-knowledge","category-stanford-entrepreneurship"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9760","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=9760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}