FTC Disclosure: I financially benefit from Stanford Engineering and the no cost access to entrepreneurship classes inside the Stanford Engineering department
By Larry Chiang
Got a passion for problems?!
Problems is box #1 inside Lec 8, 11, 17 and 18; #ENGR145, “Engineer up a business model”. Engineering 145 is technology entrepreneurship.

Problems turn into money
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Helen Shaughnessy (@CoolProdExp) |
Fall in love with the problem not an idea @amyjokim @LeanProdMeetup #prodmgmt pic.twitter.com/QXZjVOECm2
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FTC Disclosure: I benefit from Dan Olsen’s #prodmgmt speaker series and receive press access and sit front row.
“don’t fall in love with an idea; fall in love with solving a problem”
Helen Shaughnessy has a slide
pic.twitter.com/QXZjVOECm2
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Larry Chiang (@LarryChiang) |
Reminds me of @IrinaLitchfield‘s *problem*@ ;#SXSW #finTech. I love solving messy credit stains & ducking Bk, avoiding 9’s #duckBk #prodMgmnt twitter.com/coolprodexp/st…
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So, a problem at a #SXSW event was @IrinaLitchfield‘s sheer silk blouse. It had a massive orange cream stain from the chicken satay (on-a-stick) at the Financial Luminaries event at 200 Congress. Day 3; FinTexas event #4 of 7.
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Larry Chiang (@LarryChiang) |
#fintechLuminaries @IrinaLitchfield, do you have a pic of your shirt w/the orange cream stain before & after on-site stain removal? Lost. pic.twitter.com/YtP4ATiyiz
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Irina Litchfield (@IrinaLitchfield) |
@LarryChiang I don’t, somebody was taking pictures though. I wonder if it surfaces . Are you still in Austin?
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Irina Litchfield (@IrinaLitchfield) |
@LarryChiang I remember this: I found stain on my shirt, you came to the rescue, it was gone and we decided that I have abs
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Larry Chiang (@LarryChiang) |
#duckBk
#sxsw n @IrinaLitchfield can you tweet the sequence of stain, horror, solution & denouement |
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Irina Litchfield (@IrinaLitchfield) |
@LarryChiang I just remember that you were magic=)
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Larry Chiang (@LarryChiang) |
Steps! We need the steps, @IrinaLitchfield of how shirt stained to shirt cleaned- Not 2 circles to OWL like a #cs183yC! #duckBK pic.twitter.com/wstKGaZSuh
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Irina Litchfield (@IrinaLitchfield) |
@LarryChiang I’ll get you steps:)
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Larry Chiang (@LarryChiang) |
Awesome, @IrinaLitchfield
I will look forward to these tweets. #sxsw Re #duckBK knowledge activation. |
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Irina Litchfield (@IrinaLitchfield) |
1-stain on shirt 2-terror 3- @LarryChiang rubbing something on my shirt 4-clean shirt = happy me 5-everyone is thrilled #duckBk
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