What Jobapreneur Means and What To Pay Attention To : WhatTheyDontTeachYouAtStanfordBusinessSchool

By Larry Chiang

Welcome to my blog post about being an entrepreneur at a job. It does not matter that I coined the phrase… I just want to get you the knowledge so that you can get out there an live your dreams.

Thank you for sharing your time. In reading what I wrote, you’re leveraging my expertise that took hours and hours. I crave feedback and respond to all emails and even texts!

Now that we have introduced the concept of jobapreneur — lets break down what to pay attention to

-1- We don’t get paid to look good we get paid to make our boss look good.

This is hard.

Our boss is conservative in a world in hyper flux. Change is happening pretty fast and bosses are slow. Founders at startups often would rather book a meeting versus Steven Blank’s advice: “Move fast and break things”. So, how do we entrepreneurially execute while we are managed by an old curmudgeon that graduated college in the 1970’s?!

It’s my next point!

-2- Don’t ask for permission or forgiveness.

The old way was “Don’t ask for permission. Ask for forgiveness.” The new way, my way, skips the relationship equity loss of having to beg forgiveness.

Here is how. I actually outlined 30 steps in a recipe that we jobapreneurs can use. I labelled it Gua Gua Guacamole recipe #11.

-3- Minimize and mitigate risk.

Huh?! Didn’t you tell me to be aggressive? Be! be! aggressive?? I want you to be aggressive and aggressively avoid risk. I engineered a system of risk elimination called RMRMRE.

– risk mitigation

– risk minimization

– risk elimination

It at the 1:52, 3:52 and 7:25 mark of this video:

In the same vein as risk minimization…

-4- Use Vacation Time and off hours to Moonlight.

What they do teach in business school is that if you want to make your vocation a vacation, your current job as a jobapreneur is horrendous. It’s tough to use vacay

-5- Get a jobapreneur lap top and jobapreneur moleskin

The company laptop is separate from your jobapreneur laptop. Update and sync your files to the cloud in an account you pay for with your money. Not a company reimbursed DropBox. Not a Box.com account your company comps you. If its free DropBox.com account for life you get cuz you’re at DropBox, fish your credit card out and pay for a supplemental account on DropBox.

Yes, have two MacBook airs

-6- Work to get to an industry show

Jobapreneurs need to network and execute at a show. By network, I mean execute a party that gets distribution at a show. Not a big party. A MVP (minimum viable party). An LCMVP is an eleven minute after party.

-7- Jobapreneurs are street smart

At school, there is a clearness and finality. At work as a jobapreneur, it’s amorphous, uncharted and unclear. And uncertain.

It’s my responsibility to teach you these street smart things via a blog post. It’s your responsibility to not just stock pile knowledge. It’s your responsibility to execute a li’l and then update me.

I am the guy that taught street smarts in a classroom to engineers and showed students how to be jobapreneurs while in college at Stanford.

-8- Find Tyler Durden

What I mean is find your inner Tyler Durden. He co-founded FIGHT CLUB as a jobapreneur.

Finding your inner strength and, according to the movie FIGHT CLUB, power animal, helps. Finding your power animal as a jobapreneur is like when I went from loving panda bears to lion seal. Female lion seals.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Zxa6P73Awcg&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DZxa6P73Awcg

I’m a female lion seal so much that I blog as a woman named LARRY CHIANG at Women 2.o.