Larry Chiang investigates and accelerates pre-entrepreneurship. He covers the front-lines via Bloomberg BusinessWeek’s channel “What They Don’t Teach You at Business School.” He has a JBA, Jedi in Business Administration. He’s mastered the Vulcan (mentor) mind meld. After Chiang’s Harvard Law keynote, Harvard Business wrote: “What They Don’t Teach You at Stanford Business School“ (the same title as his NY Times bestseller). If you read his scandalously awesome “How to Hack at AfterParty“, “What a Supermodel Can Teach a Stanford MBA” and “How to Get Man-Charm”, you will like his latest post:
I do what Augie Garrido mentors UT baseball players to do: Question authority while following the rules. It is in the ESPN movie, “Inning by Inning.”
The establishment will have you think: AfterParties cost a lot of money and require an open bar and alcohol. Well, me and a bunch of UT undergrads just produced an event for zero money. Johnny Van, Tom Bruhis, Dakota Gordon, Irene Nguyen, and Jin Tang.
Tom Bruhis, junior in engineering
The old way was an ultimate success formula – I concocted, developed an ultimate success algorithm that I break down into a tactical, step-by-step recipe… A Gua Gua Guacamole recipe
Official Afterparty for Startup Crawl
It involves
- pattern recognition (this is what you rely on mentors for)
- pattern replication
- pattern iteration
AfterParties are entrepreneurial because hosting them flexes your entrepreneur promotion muscles. It also is a tactical nuke that you can park anywhere that allows you an explosion to generate a Tidal Wave of Momentum. My critics call it a “Perpetual Promotion Machine”
I am going to wrap this Austin entrepreneur blog post by quoting a California transplant into Texas: Augie Garrido. Coach Garrido thinks that baseball practice has a tempo and a rhythm to it. Well, I think that the practice of entrepreneurship should be the same. It is not a perfection, it is a practice.
I broke into an industry by hacking the Fair Isaac credit card credit score algorithm. I crashed film school with another algorithm. I authored 13 algorithms that I dumbed down into “Gua Gua Guacamole”. My algorithms could get sold, but I give them away. It’s cuz I’m rich and hiLarryAss.
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a party invite for you…
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