By Larry Chiang
Startup die prematurely. They don’t have to. While I can’t save all startup’s. I can save the startups that read my blog. Bold, I know.
Let us start with reason number 9 and work our way down. I see this pattern repeat time and time again: “We are building a marketplace.”
Well, let us look at the bastion of best practices…
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Larry Chiang (@LarryChiang) |
| 10/1/15, 9:25 AM The #StealEggs hack runs true and strong and patternistic in the Stanford startup community. #PRPRPI |
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In advanced parlance, you “cross the chasm from the right”
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Larry Chiang (@LarryChiang) |
| 2/11/15, 1:01 PM It’s an engineer to engineer mentorship about entrepreneurship #ch9 #stealEggs #ENGR145‘s #PRPRPIcollaborativeconsumption.com/2013/10/25/ste… |
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Engineers execute “signature business protocols”. This Penn engineer wrote:
http://www.collaborativeconsumption.com/2013/10/25/steal-eggs-the-secret-to-scaling-a-marketplace
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Larry Chiang (@LarryChiang) |
| 11/8/14, 10:32 AM marketplace? #stealEggs #PRPRPI collaborativeconsumption.com/2013/10/25/ste… |
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Download the Twitter app Re #stealEggs http://www.collaborativeconsumption.com/2013/10/25/steal-eggs-the-secret-to-scaling-a-marketplace/
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Larry Chiang (@LarryChiang) |
| 11/5/13, 9:38 PM #stealEggs Re crunchbase vs people plus techcrunch.com/2013/11/05/cru… |
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If you’re a CS major founder and have a mayor trying to kill your marketplace…, execute #DeBlasioUBER


Larry speaks on stuff they don't teach in B-school to help you get street smart in doing business. In college, he started a business that helps college students with their FICO score. He loves entrepreneurs, Ben and Jerry's ice cream and after parties. You can reach him at:




