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What They Execute in the NFL They Do Not Teach in B-School

January 16, 2013

By Larry Chiang MBAs have a hard time with post degreeification failure. It used to be that an MBA was a sort of guarantee. Many MBAs used to fold in the face of failure. Well now that what they don’t-teach-at-Stanford, they now do teach… (…at the engineering school) Examine failure with me via a live […]

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Baby Step External Deliverables, My Padawan Prepreneur

January 16, 2013

“Sooner or later we all have to quit making money from playing a children’s game” – anonymous pro athlete. Athletes are in a tremendous position to excel at entrepreneurship because training for athletics is a process that requires discipline, adherence to monotonous work, adaptation to failures and set backs and doing ‘mentor mentions per press […]

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What They DO Teach You About Being in a Effed Up Meeting

November 14, 2012

Larry Chiang character compasses which means reading the vector and direction of a business executive’s soul. He only wants to get mentored by the best. Peek into some of the best business minds via his column By Larry Chiang I saw the movie Horrible Bosses where Jason Bateman quotes me and my book. He said: […]

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What a Justin Verlander Can Teach About Home Field Advantage on the Road #Postseason

October 23, 2012

By Larry Chiang Justin Verlander can teach engineers about winning on the road. I know this because Mark McCormack is my mentor. He is a super agent that spawned an industry. He taught me “How to get home field advantage on the road”. I turned Mark McCormack’s 1983 business recipes into my own Meme: Gua […]

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What They Do Teach You at Stanford About Being Chinese

October 17, 2012

By Larry Chiang Race relations have inflection points just like startups. Well, after the hilarious Saturday Night Live skit “Tech Talk iPhone 5″, EMBED VIDEO W LINK TO http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/tech-talk-iphone-5/1420759 there was zero backlash from any Asian advocate organizations on campus in the 94305. Zero. In the skit, there were white comedians speaking pitch-perfect chinglish. They […]

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Street Smart Equals Leveraging the Bad VC Email Intro

October 14, 2012

By Larry Chiang The “Dick” VC email intro is the jerk intro that VCs sometimes do. Or offer. It goes like this… Middle of meeting, VC says: “You should contact LARRY CHIANG. His email address is EVERYWHERE. oh, here it is: Chiang 9 @ duck9″ It is perceived as a VC jerk move because the […]

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Quitting Your J.O.B.

September 5, 2012

by Larry Chiang Most people have J.O.B.S. –just over broke syndrome… I hack life like a computer program and you should learn from my ‘life hacks’ too. Have you seen the movie, the Matrix? In it Keanu Reeves learns Jiu Jitsujust by reading lines of computer code. Life in this real world is similar if […]

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September 5, 2012

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UT Entrepreneurship Month Launch Party

July 24, 2012

PALO ALTO, CALIF— By Larry Chiang UT Entrepreneurship Month Launch Party is at Chuy’s, Austin Texas, Friday, October 12, 2012, 9:00pm http://plancast.com/p/c9pb My ENGR145’s Flagship Concept: Lemonade and Gua Gua Guacamole It moves you to the right on the entrepreneur bell curve Stanford Entrepreneur Week is Feb 7-March 7, 2013 Mercedes Benz Fashion Week is […]

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Pop Up Accelerator at TC August Capital For Future #ENGR145

July 21, 2012

By Larry Chiang Curious about the legendary class inside Stanford engineering school?! It is the class that prepares you for Y Combinator. Stanford knows that this class preps ENGR undergrads. It is the same knowledge b-school kids are dying to get!! Start here: ENGR145’s Anchor Concept: Lemonade and Gua Gua Guacamole It moves you to […]

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