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Gaps and More Gaps Before A Gaping “Chasm”

by Larry Chiang on March 20, 2017

By Larry Chiang
I try to fill in the gaps for when VC’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’s fill in some gaps.

-1- Gap #1: The ABCs of startup.
There 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.

Gaps and more gaps.
-2- Mark Suster has gaps in his prolific blogging effort. Mainly, how he, Mark Suster, crossed the chasm TWICE.

-3- See Mark Suster’s basecamp blog post

-4- Chasms kill startups dead a lot of the time

The Geoffrey Moore book series* has been extrapolated. If you read all of Moore’s books, you would agree with my “Cross the Chasm FROM THE RIGHT” theorems.

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Chasms. It would be hilarious if chasms would not kill so many yC startups.

-5- you place your resources at the point that could be an inflection point

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-6- StanfordEng #ENGR145 gap

 UT ends ~May14. 

Summer qtr @Stanford STARTS #26Jun2017

Five weeks!!

Larry Chiang (@LarryChiang)
Do you know about the secret @StanfordEng #ENGR145 gap? UT ends ~May14. Summer qtr @Stanford STARTS #26Jun2017 cc #sxsw pic.twitter.com/gNhbbMYHAx

-7- The perfect summer in Silicon Valley means taking Tom Kosnik’s #ENGR145 class (costs $10k) and then getting your Return on Investment (ROI) before class even starts.

You. Have. A. Gap.

Whip out your moleskin notebook and start to get that $10,000 you’re gonna need for summer 2017 before you even set foot in Silicon Valley. Start taking notes on two videos

 

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