By Larry Chiang

I just saw Avengers a second time. It’s similar to my habit of rewatching a movie or re-reading a book.

I always get something more out of the second viewing. Or 13th re-reading if you’re talking about my mentors book: “What They Don’t Teach You at Harvard Business School”. Here is what I pattern recognized from the Avengers movie that can be pattern replicated for entrepreneurship success.

-1- Be a Technical Co-Founder

If you are co-founding the Avengers, more tech competance is better. Both the hulk and ironman are tech co-founders. Dr Brenner, aka the Hulk, is a gamma radiation expert.

Tony Stark, aka Ironman read up on “Anti electron control” which is a paper Dr Brenner wrote. The other founders didn’t read their briefing because they are technically incompetent

-2- Kiss Butt by Reading and Regurgitating

Within two seconds of Ironman meeting Hulk, Tony Stark was quoting Dr Brenner back to The Hulk. When Scarlet Johansen, aka Black Widow and Avengers co-founder asked Tony Stark, “How did you get to be a anti electron expert?!”

Tony replied: “I read Dr Brenner. Didn’t everyone else read their packet??”

-3- Always Be Recruiting.

Recruiting Hulk was first and foremost on Tony Stark’s agenda. Ironman said, “The Top 10 floors of my new building are R and D. You should join!!”

Tony Stark was slow to recruit Thor because God-like co-founders aren’t a sweet spot.

-4- Be OK with Being Beta Male

Tony Stark didn’t lead the Avengers. Captain America did. According to the business case studies Ironman and Ironman II, Tony Stark has never been a beta male.

Tony Stark isnt even in a beta role to Nick Fury. He even makes fun of Nick Fury, head of S.H.I.E.L.D. for having only one eye.

But in military team leadership scenarios, Tony Stark; Scarlett Johansen, spy and counter interrogation expert Black Widow; and The Archer all deferred to the ranking military officer: Captain America.

-5- Opportunity in Bad Luck

Tony Stark views Hulk’s ‘Bad luck’ = “Terrible privilege”. Tony likens his iron filings in his body as a terrible privilege as he encourages the Dr Brenner to do the same with his alter ego HULK

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By Larry Chiang

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By Larry Chiang

Prequels minimize risk.

Finovate NYC is Sept 12-13. I’m doing a kick-off party 09-11-12 in a super secret location.

Remember, Jeremy Lin and the Knicks will be playing. Also, remember the Baron Davis, Kobe Bryant afterparty February 10, 2012.

Another industry specific conference is a prequel. Next Bank Asia SG12 wasn’t on my radar until Bradley Leimer’s tweet

Bradley Leimer (@leimer) 5/9/12 9:49 PM Follow banking 2 . 0 disruption and #engagementbanking at Next Bank Asia #NBASG12 and post #Finovate. Eat, Breathe, Sleep Fintech. #in

I’ll take a look.

I am definitely in for September 12 & 13 at Javitz Conference Center for Finovate Fall and the “Larry Chiang Dinner and SuperModel Reception” at PJ Clarke’s. 7pm. September 12.

Also, there is a Larry Chiang After AfterParty at midnight with a surprise celebrity guest. Ty Warner Suite at 57 E 57th St. 212-758-5700.

NOTE: I am sending banks that shift their cardholder agreements to Don Shula’s at the Westin. Very plausible since I’m the Westin “Who’s He Sleeping With Model”.

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By Larry Chiang

Late afternoon on May 9, Seattle WA Finovate wrapped their two-day conference on Financial Innovation.

Who won?!

Well I tweeted it here from http://www.twitter.com/LarryChiang

Larry Chiang ✰ (@LarryChiang) 5/10/12 4:51 PM #Finovate winners: Congrats to @netbanker’s @Finovate best in show @BillGuard @BehavioSec @dwolla @iQuantifi @MoneyDesktop @SoMoLend

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By Larry Chiang

I love sequels.

It minimizes risk for us as CS major CEOs. The sequel to ReverseVC is ForwardVC

Larry Chiang ✰ (@LarryChiang) 5/10/12 8:15 AM I know I can get 13 IPO’s for 13 #csMajorCEO’s w no VC money in. #forwardVC

The idea here is to unleash an army of Next Generation VCs in the form of an R2D2 venture associate.

Huh?!

You see, R2D2 makes the perfect VC. He saves Luke Skywalker’s ass time and time again. Right now the state of the VC industry is C3PO.

Wha?!

C3PO is tall, pretty and blonde just like the Winkelvoss twins. Yeah, they are VCs too. C3PO is really shiny. Really useless.

Exhibit ONE: Millenium Falcon can’t make the jump to light speed and C3PO is waving and flailing his arms wanting to fire a founder and surrender. R2D2 is helping the CTO of the Millinium Falcon, Chewbacca, fix the warp drive with a few lines of well placed computer code.

Exhibit TWO: Luke Shywalker, Han Solo and startup team have “left the building” in search of a business model and get stuck in a trash compactor on the Death Star. C3PO’s blackberry is on vacation mode. Enter: R2D2.

R2D2 hacks the Death Star conference mainframe in 12 seconds flat to save the entire founder team.

ForwardVC is an army of 600 R2D2 VCs hacking, hacking and hustling. We use Gua Gua Guacamole.

The goal?!

13 IPOs by 13 CS Major CEOs with 600 CS major R2D2 as VCs

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By Larry Chiang

Aliisa Rosenthal (@aliisanola) 5/9/12 6:16 PM Excellent #finovate, folks. Lots of great conversations on #gamification, #bankasplatform, #PWM, #ACH, #lending and #fraudanalytics. WOOT

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By Larry Chiang

First of all, thank you Finovate for granting me permission to host an AfterParty.

Here is my ‘value added hijack’ in piece-wise technicolor detail for the sequel to this.

-1- In NYC do a proof-positive concept tested, “larry chiang afterparty”

People love sequels. I love vetting, removing and mitigating risk. You at Finovate moved to a two-day format and now all y’all can wedge in an afterparty that you can now sell sponsorship for.

-2- Break up the afterParty into two separate parties.

9pm-12 midnight. 12 Midnight to 2am.

The theory here is that executive attendees eat a dinner and then come to the afterparty for one drink. If the party were 9-11 and dinner gets done at 10:15, there will be fall-out, unsubscribes if the party ends at 11. Ending the party at 12 and the afterparty at 2am pretty much guarantees that the party closes at 12:25 where everyone collapses into a cab and are in their respective hotel suites by 12:50am

This replicates the TechCrunch 2008 Official AfterParty

This pattern replicates The Duck9 Web 2.0 Summit AfterParty 2012: www.duck9.com/20 www.duck9.com/200 www.duck9.com/2000

-3- Pre-Party with a Dinner at 7pm.

7:00 VIP Drinks 7:30 – 9:30 Dinner.

That way when people trickle in at 9, the party is already blowing and going.

-4- Charge what you want.

Seriously, that is your issue.

-5- The Larry Chiang After, Afterparty

If you want me to appear or/and host the after, afterparty from 12-2am, I will do the first year.

In the following year’s year, you can sell that too

By Larry Chiang

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By Larry Chiang

People often ask me what events are cool. If you’re coming to Stanford for the summer for ENGR 145, check out: Silicon Valley Startup Digest – May 7, 2012. It comes out once a week.

This is coolest stuff in silicon valley.

Subscribe by emailing Chris @startupDigest.com On twitter at @mccanatron

Another source is Plancast.

This business that Chris McCann started is an example of a lemonade stand business where the concept is straitforward, but the execution is awesome. It is also an example of a sequel business that is a sequel to a business that you did not start. > >

> Silicon Valley StartupDigest > Life is too short to work at a boring company. Meet the best startups here. > > Here is a small experiment I am trying. The StartupDigest Brain Trust is a list of people I know well enough to make a friendly personal intro to. > > If you want to talk to any of these people request an introduction and I can make it happen. > > – Chris > > Silicon Valley StartupDigest is curated by: > Chris McCann – Co-Founder, StartupDigest > Santiago Zavala – Partner, Mexican.vc > > > Silicon Valley StartupDigest is supported exclusively by: > How do investors distinguish promising, breakthrough companies from the ordinary? Listen to pioneering investment banker Bill Hambrecht’s insights about underwriting seminal startups such as Apple, Genentech, Adobe and more. In this podcast from the Kauffman Foundation, Hambrecht shares more than 50 years of experience riding the tech revolution wave. > > > What’s Going On in the Silicon Valley Startup Community > David Hornik Unplugged: No Question Left Unanswered (25% off with StartupDigest) > Monday, May 07 @5:30PM | San Francisco | View in Calendar > > An open Q&A session with David Hornik, a partner at August Capital. > > Code for America Salon (Free with “Startup”) > Monday, May 07 @6PM | San Francisco | View in Calendar > > Code for America is hosting their first Salon event with Ellen Miller of the Sunlight Foundation which works on government transparency and Tom Steinberg of mySociety which works to help people become more important in the democratic process. > > Women Who Code – Front-end Web Dev Study Group (Free) > Monday, May 07 @7PM | San Francisco | View in Calendar > > The is the first meeting of the group that will meet every week for the next 3 months. > > ER Accelerator Demo Day (Free) > Wednesday, May 09 @6PM | Mountain View | View in Calendar > > A demo day in partnership with 500 Startups with 10 startups from New York City. > > Intro to Relational/SQL Database Design (Free) > Wednesday, May 09 @6:30PM | San Francisco | View in Calendar > > A talk on the basics of designing and setting up a database schema. > > FailChat: UX Comes First ($20) > Wednesday, May 09 @6:30PM | San Francisco | View in Calendar > > A chat with Kate Rutter of LUXr on common mistakes made by founders in the early stages of product design. > > FashTech Insight (15% off with StartupDigest) > Thursday, May 10 @6PM | San Francisco | View in Calendar > > An event about how the fashion industry is using data with Michael Preysman of Everlane, Lester Lee of Polyvore, and David Yoo of Sugar Inc. > > Startup Triad – Fearless Female Founders ($15) > Thursday, May 10 @6:30PM | San Francisco | View in Calendar > > A discussion with Alexa Andrzejewski, co-founder of Foodspotting, and Poornima Vijayashanker, co-founder of BizeeBee, on the life of a women founder, gender equality, and an open Q&A session. > > The Future of the Design Founder ($20) > Thursday, May 10 @7PM | San Francisco | View in Calendar > > A talk about starting a company as a designer with Jackson Wilkinson, who previously led design at Posterous and LinkedIn. > > Soapbox with Jeff Atwood (Free) > Friday, May 11 @12PM | Campbell | View in Calendar > > Jeff Atwood discusses how he build Stack Overflow using the best parts of Wikis, Digg, Forums, and Blogs. > > Mobile Gaming Hackathon (Free) > Friday, May 11-13 | San Francisco | View in Calendar > > A 2-day hackathon to build a fun mobile game. > > Building a Strong Internal Startup Culture ($20) > Monday, May 14 @6PM | Mountain View | View in Calendar > > A discussion on building strong company culture with Leah Busque of TaskRabbit and Julia Hartz of Eventbrite. > > WeWork Labs SF Launch Party (Free) > Monday, May 14 @6PM | San Francisco | View in Calendar > > WeWork Labs, which started in NYC, is moving to Silicon Valley and throwing a launch party to celebrate. > > NoSQL & Big Data ($40) > Tuesday, May 15 @6PM | Palo Alto | View in Calendar > > A discussion on big data and the infrastructure behind it with Doug Cutting, creator of Hadoop, Max Schireson, president of 10gen, and James Phillips, co-founder of Couchbase. > > Crowdsourcing Work and Consuming Collaboratively Meetup (Free) > Tuesday, May 15 @6PM | San Francisco | View in Calendar > > A group and talks on crowdsourcing with Jason Shen of Ridejoy, Kanyi Maqubela of the Collaborative Fund, and Anthony Goldbloom of Kaggle. > > Designing for Startups ($20) > Tuesday, May 15 @7PM | San Francisco | View in Calendar > > A class about the basics of design with Chris Jennings, director of user experience at Disqus. > > See all of the events in the Silicon Valley StartupDigest calendar. > > > Top Upcoming Silicon Valley Startup Events > May 16 – Code Social (Free) > May 16 – Startup Grind Hosts Jason Putorti ($20) > May 19 – NextGen Conference (20% off with StartupDigest) > May 19 – Mobile Do-A-Thon ($80) > May 19 – Datafest. Analyzing campaign finance data (Free) > May 21 – The Blueseed Project ($20) > May 21 – Palo Alto CIO Jonathan Reichental: Government, Open Data, and Apps (Free) > May 22 – UX: What Not to Do ($25) > May 23 – EdTech Investor Panel (Free) > May 24 – Designers + Geeks ($15) > May 31 – HealthTech Mixer (20% off with StartupDigest) > June 01 – Code for America Accelerator Application Date > June 20 – The First Steps to Starting a Startup (10% off with StartupDigest10) > > > StartupDigest VIP > Life is too short to work at a boring company. Meet the best startups here. > > > Join StartupDigest | Our Story | Events | Articles | Books | Videos | Suggest > > You are receiving this email because you are an active member of the Silicon Valley startup community. > > StartupDigest is a registered trademark of NextDigest, Inc. Copyright 2009-2012. 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Begin forwarded message:

> From: Chris McCann > Date: May 7, 2012 8:01:16 AM PDT > To: > Subject: Silicon Valley StartupDigest – May 7, 2012 > Reply-To: Chris McCann

http://whattheydontteachyouatstanfordbusinessschool.wordpress.com/2011/11/11/larry-chiang-car-loan-company-and-fund-at-111111-1111-am/

By Larry Chiang

The ‘Larry Chiang Duck9 Car Loan Company and Fund’ launched at 11/11/11 11:11 AM via my blog post at

http://www.WhatTheyDontTeachYouAtStanfordBusinessSchool.com/blog

See a copy at

http://whattheydontteachyouatstanfordbusinessschool.wordpress.com/2011/11/11/larry-chiang-car-loan-company-and-fund-at-111111-1111-am/

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