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14 Chapters. Over 500 Pictures.

by Larry Chiang on September 3, 2009

Unedited by Larry Chiang These are the Chapters. Yikes there is a TON of content. Remember, none of it is copywritten so cut and paste away (Yeah, its Chapter 3 of my book) Chapter 1: Damned if you do, damned if you don’t go to B-school: How Star Fleet Academy Is Like An MBA; Navigate the MBA Waitlist

Ch 2: Treasure Management: 9 VCs and Their Secret FICO Score; One Hit Wonder No More; Creative Founder Financing; Ten Tips for Founder to Improve FICO; Collection 101: How to Collect Money; St. Pat’s Day 24-7-365: 12 Steps to Finding Founder’s Gold; Hack Your Credit Rating; How to Build Good Credit for Your Business

Ch 3: Cut and Paste Other People’s Work (Legally): Cut and Paste Other People’s Work

Ch 4: Networking, Kissing Butt and Crashing Parties: Networking: How to Work a Twitter Party; How to Work the Room; How to Work a Stadium; Hacking Foo Camp; Crashing SXSW; Man Charm a VC; Party Crashing, Entrepreneurship and SXSW; Crashing the American MBA Party; How To Work a Facebook Party; How to Work a Twitter Party, Take 2; How to Work a Cocktail Party; How to Work the Room; Networking: How to Work a Twitter Party; Cyber-schmoozing; Getting “Man-Charm”; Web 2.0 Celebrity Missteps: How not to work the room; Hacking Spring Training

Ch 5 Mentorship- {Leveraging OPE, Reading People and Managing Upwards}: 9 Hollywood Agents You Don’t Wanna Meet; Presidential Timber; 11 Characters You Meet at SXSW; A Dozen B-School Students You Don’t Wanna Meet; How To Read People — the Character Compass Method; Party Promo to Generate Leads for Mentors; 9 VCs You’re Gonna Want to Avoid; 8 Tips On How To Get Mentored; 9 People You Meet at Y-Combinator

Ch 6: Sales. {20 Years + 20 Books + 20 Movies} = One Hour of Reading: The Art of Cold Calling; How to Close a Deal Via Text Message; How to Give Good Phone; The New Business of Booty Calling; How to Turn Your Revenues Up As Economy Goes Down; Wooing People to Yes; Lost Art of Closing a Deal via Voicemail; Get Your Startup Out of Pre-Revenue!; 8 Deadly Promotion Pitfalls

Ch 7: The Sex Chapter.: Strategic Girlfriend Management Tips; Valentine’s Day – Stuff They Will NEVER Teach You At Business School

Ch 8: Get Lucky: The Karma Chapter

Ch 9 – Entrepreneurship.: Bossy Know-It-Alls Failing – – the Woes of VCs Turned Entrepreneur; Business School Is Not a Safety Net to Entrepreneurship; 8 Party Complainers to Skip at Entrepreneurs’ Party; Don’t be Asse9 on April Fools; The Art of Being a Booth Babe; Hacking Entrepreneurship Conferences; Get Your Startup Out of Pre-Revenue; 8 Things Sarah Lacy Could Learn From Founders She Covers; Nine Signs of a One Hit Wonder; How to Build Good Credit for Your Business; How to Start a Business at Baseball’s Spring Training

Ch 10: Lies, Business Fibs, Urban Legends and How to Interrogate: 8 Lies Bestselling Authors Tell; How To Write a NY Times Bestseller; 9 Lies Told at NSA; 13 Lies Told at Web 2.0 Expo

Ch 11: Failing Forward {Dealing with HARDSHIP}: What a SuperModel Can Teach a Stanford MBA; The Art of Getting Fired; Increase Your Credit Score After Losing Your Job; 10 Biggest VC Mistakes; 9 Biggest Mistakes of VCs Turned Entrepreneurs; Navigating Bad Entrepreneurial Fortune

Ch 12. Street Smarts: The Art of Hijacking a Film Festival, Conference or Convention; What They Don’t Teach You At the NSA; Acing the National Speakers Association Convention; 7 Mistakes of the B-Schooler Abroad; The Art of Moderating a Panel in the Partial Attention Economy; How To Hack Into Moderating a SXSW Panel; What I Learned at Finovate, I Could Not Learn at B-School; Hack into Hollywood: How to Star in a Video Game; Hack Web 2.0 Expo; How To Work a Conference as a Hottie; SXSW Film vs SXSW Interactive; SXSW Interactive Summarized; The Art of Changing the Deal; 7 Things I Am Learning at New York Fashion Week; 2009 Sports Illustrated Swim Suit Issue Teaches What B-School Can’t; Learning at Ted2009; Ten Things I Learned About Making Money (at an Internet Marketing, Las Vegas Conference); My 10 Best B-Schools and How They Can Help You Too; Millionaire to Billionaire – 8 hours with Mark Cuban; How to Hack BlogWorld – 21 Lucky Tips; Post Conference Follow-Up Tips; Web 2.0 Summit Nuggets; How To Get On the Amazon Bestseller List

Ch 13: Dumb It Down. Sandbag for Success

Ch 14. You Actually Wanna Go To Stanford But Redact: 10 Things They Don’t Teach You at B-School

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