Larry Chiang scandalously reveals how stuff really works and breaks it down. He edits the Bloomberg BusinessWeek channel “What They Don’t Teach You at Business School”. After Chiang’s Harvard Law keynote, Harvard Business wrote: “What They Don’t Teach You at Stanford Business School“ (its the same title as his NY Times bestseller). He is Entrepreneur in Residence at Stanford University. If you read his hilariously awesome “What a Supermodel Can Teach a Stanford MBA” and “How to Get Man-Charm”, you will like his latest post:

Enroll in Stanford Engineering ENGR 145

By Larry Chiang

ENGR 145 alums teach!

It solves the problem of ENGR 145 not getting taught this quarter at Stanford.

This is for our Unofficial ENGR 145 project
11pm-1am two days per week

It’s open to engineers ONLY**
It costs $35,500*
*if youre an active Stanford student, your cost is a negative 400.oo

Direct your questions either to me or an e145 kid that I have mentored

Q: why are you doing this?
Ans: it solves a problem. ENGR 145 not getting taught fall quarter leaves a gap in the Stanford entrepreneur calendar

Q: why are you spending $$ to do this?
Ans: I’m rich, bored, talented and rich this is my hobby

Q: Do you even work at Duck9?
Answer: In college I played a varsity sport, sold ads for the Daily Illini, sold cars, started and became a cash millionaire founder, was an officer at my frat, cooked Fri lunch for my frat for 120 guys. And dated a Theta.

No one *ever* asked me of I was still Deans list in engineering.

Q: I’m foreign and I don’t trust you.
Answer: isnt that a statement?

Look. I’m from a country that doesn’t sneak attack a neighbor.

Plus why attack Canada and Mexico??

My parents are from a county that forgets that Nanking ever happened.

You’re not “buying it” so just know that I strive to be more American. I strive to be more Chinese too (that’s easy too ying wei wo tsang da yang zi bu tsuao

Q: can I fail?
Answer: most entrepreneurs fail 80.0%
My goal is to have you bat over .300 (fail only ~70%)

Q: what do I pay?
Answer: 400.oo or $35,500
You get your $400 back after you show up for 60% of Unofficial ENGR 145 events

Q: what can I pay you later after I’m filthy rich
Answer: toss me a vacation comp. Deny I ever helped you is a form of payment. I will judge you in how you treat me, yes, but what I’m saying is that I don’t need your credit, your praise, your thankfulness or your money.

A thank you card done in construction paper and crayon gives me 90% of the joy as a comp suite at the top of Four Seasons NYC Ty Warner suite

Yeah it’s the most expensive hotel accommodation according to Conde Nast.

Yes I crashed a party there during the UN Gen Ass September 21, 2011.

Yes Ty Warner is from Oak Brook IL and sold about a billion dollars worth of stuffed animals as a sequel biz to Dakin (sequel biz is a patented larry chiang guacamole recipe)

By patented, I mean you can copy-paste it for free

Copy Paste is chapter 3 of “What They Will NEVER Teach You at Stanford Business School”

I just want you to know that I learned this from my dead mentor, Mark McCormack. He wrote: What They Will NEVER Teach You at Harvard Business School

Q: What is ENGR 145
Answer: technology entrepreneurship

Google ‘Unofficial ENGR 145′
It’s #hiLarryAss

Q: Are you really a supermodel?
Answer: :-I
I pay 70% commission if you land me a modeling gig. I dont do runway. I do print. And remember I’m 6’5″, 222 so don’t make me where European clothes or a 40R. But know I can sell a sweater in an a print advertisement to a person on the Equator in summer.

Q: Are you remedial?! It’s always summer on the equator.
Answer: Dumb yourself down and Sandbag For Success. It’s chapter 13 of my NyTimes bestselling book: What They Don’t Teach You at Stanford Business School

Q: I don’t go to Stanford University – when do you come to my school?
Answer: I’m already doing MIT twice per year.

Btw I have 5 cofounders
I launched this on Josefine Kvist’s wall

Yo Stanford ENGR
Pick a session of ENGR 145 that you’ve mastered enough where you could teach it.
Email me that session chiang9@duck9.com

This is for our Unofficial ENGR 145 project
11pm-1am two days per week

It solves the problem of ENGR 145 not getting taught this quarter

If you liked this… Larry’s mentor Mark McCormack wrote this in 1983. His own book came out 09-09-09. It is called ‘What They Don’t Teach You At Stanford Business School‘ *** BONUS *** a party invite for you… Online event registration powered by Eventbrite

This post was drafted in an hour and needs your edits… email me if you see a spelling or grammatical error(s)… larry@larrychiang com

Larry Chiang started his first company UCMS in college. He mimicked his mentor, Mark McCormack, founder of IMG who wrote the book, “What They Don’t Teach You at Harvard Business School”. Chiang is a keynote speaker and bestselling author and spoke at Congress and World Bank.

Text or call him during office hours 11:11am or 11:11pm PST +/-11 minutes at 650-283-8008. Due to the volume of calls, he may place you on hold like a Scottsdale Arizona customer service rep. If you email him, be sure to include your cell number in the subject line. If you want him to email you his new articles…, ask him in an email

You can read more equally funny, but non-founder-focused-lessons on Larry’s Amazon blog .

Larry Chiang scandalously reveals how stuff really works and breaks it down. He edits the Bloomberg BusinessWeek channel “What They Don’t Teach You at Business School”. After Chiang’s Harvard Law keynote, Harvard Business wrote: “What They Don’t Teach You at Stanford Business School“ (its the same title as his NY Times bestseller). He is Entrepreneur in Residence at Stanford University. If you read his hilariously awesome “What a Supermodel Can Teach a Stanford MBA” and “How to Get Man-Charm”, you will like his latest post:

Who is Larry Chiang Here at MBFW

By Larry Chiang

MBFW is a little too immersed with Larry Chiang

I get a bunch of emails, tweets and even texts. I put my cell on my YouTube branded home page. Anyway, here is my role and why I’m around.

-1- I am first and foremost a fan

MBFW is a living, breathing community . It changes and gets better every year. I’m a fan

-2- MBFW Triple Threat

I model, host and launched a book here at MBFW

On 09-09-09, I released my book. It not only hit the NY Times bestseller list, it was also on the google home page for 9 minutes.

-3- Over-Stayed my 15 minutes

I get more than my 15 minutes because I studied and hacked celebrity .

I also recognize and promote rising stars.

4- parties and appearances.

Sure I have an assistant — but I want you to feel you can contact me directly .

I don’t charge for appearances (as a Quasi journalist it’d be a conflict. Yes I wrote two of the top ten traffic posts for BusinessWeek: “What a Supermodel Can Teach a Stanford MBA”)

5- who is my mentor.

Mark McCormack was my mentor.

He founded IMG which founded MBFW. He wrote “What They Don’t Teach You at Harvard Business School”. I have a copy for you in my hotel at the Westin.

DISCLOSURE: I appeared (mostly naked) in their “Who’s he sleeping with campaign”. It launched their heavenly bed.

Of course you can text me your snail mail address and I will mail you a copy or have one at the oh-so-helpful Westin concierge

If you liked this… Larry’s mentor Mark McCormack wrote this in 1983. His own book came out 09-09-09. It is called ‘What They Don’t Teach You At Stanford Business School‘ *** BONUS *** a party invite for you… Online event registration powered by Eventbrite

This post was drafted in an hour and needs your edits… email me if you see a spelling or grammatical error(s)… larry@larrychiang com

Larry Chiang started his first company UCMS in college. He mimicked his mentor, Mark McCormack, founder of IMG who wrote the book, “What They Don’t Teach You at Harvard Business School”. Chiang is a keynote speaker and bestselling author and spoke at Congress and World Bank.

Text or call him during office hours 11:11am or 11:11pm PST +/-11 minutes at 650-283-8008. Due to the volume of calls, he may place you on hold like a Scottsdale Arizona customer service rep. If you email him, be sure to include your cell number in the subject line. If you want him to email you his new articles…, ask him in an email

You can read more equally funny, but non-founder-focused-lessons on Larry’s Amazon blog .

Larry Chiang scandalously reveals how stuff really works and breaks it down. He edits the Bloomberg BusinessWeek channel “What They Don’t Teach You at Business School”. After Chiang’s Harvard Law keynote, Harvard Business wrote: “What They Don’t Teach You at Stanford Business School“ (its the same title as his NY Times bestseller). He is Entrepreneur in Residence at Stanford University. If you read his hilariously awesome “What a Supermodel Can Teach a Stanford MBA” and “How to Get Man-Charm”, you will like his latest post:

How Do You Hack Loyalty as a College Student

By Larry Chiang

Loyalty is tremendously under-studied

Me, I study random stuff and look to hack it. By hacking, I mean engineering how it works

After reading this tweet, it got me to break down two insights…

Insights are below, but what are your thoughts after reading this snippet?

My thinking is wow, after 30+ years, this guys still remembers his first break.

If you’re looking for your first big break or next break… read on!

Eff it, I just cried while writing this

I just cried while writing this because I got major, MAJOR, major beaks from some random GIFT opportunity (cc Heaven’s Mark McCormack. Authored: “What They Don’t Teach at Harvard Business School”

cc Tom Kosnik, Stanford Engineering Professor and author of “Delight”)

Anyway, loyalty insights…

-1- older people extrapolate younger people live longer than them.

Older people’s legacy depends on getting remembered.

For example, sell or promote something like Bobby Rivers. Other older people will say in their mind: i wish I were Melvin Van Peebles getting promoted by Bobby Rivers

-2- show loyalty to something

So many people in Hollywood, Silicon Valley and nyc Social Climb. Show and sell some loyalty to something.

I was GIVEN a BMW by my neighbor because he sold it to me at 10k below his ask and 20+k below blue book. It was because I was uber loyal to a crappy Buick.

I sell my mentor Mark McCormack and have given away many copies of “What They Don’t Teach at Harvard Business School”. It primes the loyalty pump. It gets other people to notice. It is good karma.

This is me:

Larry Chiang
CEO, Duck9
Stanford Entrepreneur in Residence

Duck9 = Deep Underground Credit Knowledge 9

http://www.duck9.com/blog

125 University Ave Suite 100
Palo Alto CA 94301
650-566-9600

****************
Editor of the BusinessWeek Channel “What They Don’t Teach at Business School

http://whattheydontteachyouatstanfordbusinessschool.com/blog

***************
NY Times Bestselling Author
“What They Don’t Teach at Stanford Business School” http://whattheydontteachyouatstanfordbusinessschool.com/

http://www.Twitter.com/LarryChiang

650-566-9696 (direct)
650-566-9600
650-283-8008 (cell)

If you liked this… Larry’s mentor Mark McCormack wrote this in 1983. His own book came out 09-09-09. It is called ‘What They Don’t Teach You At Stanford Business School‘ *** BONUS *** a party invite for you… Online event registration powered by Eventbrite

This post was drafted in an hour and needs your edits… email me if you see a spelling or grammatical error(s)… larry@larrychiang com

Larry Chiang started his first company UCMS in college. He mimicked his mentor, Mark McCormack, founder of IMG who wrote the book, “What They Don’t Teach You at Harvard Business School”. Chiang is a keynote speaker and bestselling author and spoke at Congress and World Bank.

Text or call him during office hours 11:11am or 11:11pm PST +/-11 minutes at 650-283-8008. Due to the volume of calls, he may place you on hold like a Scottsdale Arizona customer service rep. If you email him, be sure to include your cell number in the subject line. If you want him to email you his new articles…, ask him in an email

You can read more equally funny, but non-founder-focused-lessons on Larry’s Amazon blog .

Larry Chiang scandalously shows granular tid-bits in how to start as an entrepreneur. He edits the Bloomberg BusinessWeek channel “What They Don’t Teach You at Business School”. After Chiang’s Harvard Law keynote, Harvard Business wrote: “What They Don’t Teach You at Stanford Business School“ (its the same title as his NY Times bestseller). If you read his scandalously awesome “What a Supermodel Can Teach a Stanford MBA” and “How to Get Man-Charm”, you will like his latest post:

ProsperAss Funny Movie quotes

by Larry Chiang

“ProsperAss” is a 2012 comedy about three girls at a strip club and accidentally start a loan sharking business. The movie is based on the NY Times bestselling “What They Don’t Teach You at Stanford Business School”.

Funny ProsperAss Quotes: Loan sharking.
Alex: You know what you call a person who thinks getting money at 2% and lending it for 5% a 20% margin
Ashley: No, what?
Alex: An effen genius.

Funny ProsperAss Quotes: Loan sharking.
Ashley: Loan sharking is cruel. It makes you an asstard
Alex: Loan dolphin.
Ashley: You are always talking about your dolphin
Alex: Floggin’ dolphin.
Ashley: You’re SO remedial genius.

Funny ProsperAss Quotes: Pager Humor.
Amber: His number has BooB in it cuz it ends in 8008
Alex: I bet he is an ass man
Amber: 650-283 BOOB
Alex: And there is at “a-t-e” cuz its 2-8-3.
Alex: 650 eat boob.
Amber: Ill let him eat my boob.

Funny ProsperAss Quotes: Dancing

Sheila: “Grinding is the new ballroom dancing”

Funny ProsperAss Quotes: Boobs.

Amber: Boobs-dar engage.
Alex: Approximate loan to boob ratio: 30 to 1
Amber: she can pole dance til she’s 90. she’ll always OWE
Alex: Exactamundo
Amber: Gawd, my boob dar is never wrong.

Funny ProsperAss Quotes: Business School

Alex: She went to b-school for her MRS degree
Sheila: MRS Degree?
Alex: Yeah, married.
Sheila: and now can’t get LAID.
Alex: hiLarryASS

Funny Dilemma Quotes: Slutty

Alex: “Lost my virginity on a snow day”
Man: Huh.
Alex: Exit only buddy. My butt hymen is intact
Man: You CANT have a butt hymen
Alex: Wanna bet. You have a butt hymen I am gonna bust it.

Funny Dilemma Quotes: Roofie

Sheila: “Roofie myself up once is ok but for a relationship, doing it all the time?! Never.”

Funny Dilemma Quotes: Nuts

Alex: Time Value Boobie!
Lawrence: TVB. Its like time value of money but boobies droop and depreciate over time.

Funny Dilemma Quotes: Boob job financing

Alex: BJ Financing
Nick: You finance blow jobs?
Alex: Boob Jobs. BJ financing is boob job financing.

Funny Dilemma Quotes: Speech

Sheila: Life all comes down to a few moments. This is one of ‘em.
Alex: What are you doing? Are you giving me, really, the Charlie Sheen speech from the movie Wall Street?
Sheila: It’s applicable to what we’re doing. I’m mean it’s not like I’m going to come up with something better than that.

Funny Dilemma Quotes: accidental dial

Sheila: You butt dialed our investor.
Alex: Literally a back-channel communication

Funny Dilemma Quotes: Part time work

Alex: There is nothing more permanent than a part time job at a strip club
Sheila: you know what they call cocktail waitresses here?! Strippers with small boobies.

Funny ProsperAss Quotes: Vibration.

Sheila: A phone vibrating between my legs is hardly a good substitute for a relationship
Two phones. Both set to VIBRATE. One’s in my breast pocket. The other’s tucked.

Funny ProsperAss Quotes: Register a Domain Name.
Sheila: Cute, all y’all should get that URL. Japanic. Half japanese. half hispanic. Japanic.

Funny Dilemma Quotes: Hot or Not.

Sheila: Ya never go fully retarded.
Alex: huh?
Sheila: Hot or Not. I can haz cheezburger. Zappos. All asian and all went partial retard. you never go fully retarded.
Did you just quote Morton Downey Jr in Tropic Thunder
Sheila: Copy paste baby! I’m mean it’s not like I’m going to come up with something better than that.

Funny ProsperAss Quotes: Jappie.

Jappie isn’t asian. Jappie is Jewish American Princess

Funny ProsperAss Quotes: Booty call.

They call it booty calling. They don’t call it booty facebook wall posting

Funny ProsperAss Quotes: Fortune cookies
Fortune u reap is the company u keep

Alex: Did you seriously just stuff that fortune cookie.
Sheila: Like you’ve never stuffed something.

Funny ProsperAss Quotes: Breast Christmas Ever
Sheila: It’ll be the Breast Christmas ever. with a snow day
Alex: Breast?
Sheila: Breast. Christ-Mass. Evah.
Alex: arent you planning ahead.
Sheila: Every year it happens in Late December. Every year I make money doing it

http://www.breastchristmasever.com/

Funny ProsperAss Quotes: Business Name

Alex: We should drop the ass
Sheila: you drop acid
Alex: We should drop the ass in ProsperAss
Sheila: Just be Prosper.com or Prosperous
Alex: Prosper
Sheila: how about “The Prosper”
Then Justin Timberlake can tell us to drop the ‘The’
Alex: Visit and drop other stuff too.

If you liked this… Larry’s mentor Mark McCormack wrote this in 1983. His own book came out 09-09-09. It is called ‘What They Don’t Teach You At Stanford Business School‘ *** BONUS *** a party invite for you… Online event registration powered by Eventbrite

This post was drafted in an hour and needs your edits… email me if you see a spelling or grammatical error(s)… larry@larrychiang com

Larry Chiang started his first company UCMS in college. He mimicked his mentor, Mark McCormack, founder of IMG who wrote the book, “What They Don’t Teach You at Harvard Business School”. Chiang is a keynote speaker and bestselling author and spoke at Congress and World Bank.

Text or call him during office hours 11:11am or 11:11pm PST +/-11 minutes at 650-283-8008. Due to the volume of calls, he may place you on hold like a Scottsdale Arizona customer service rep. If you email him, be sure to include your cell number in the subject line. If you want him to email you his new articles…, ask him in an email

You can read more equally funny, but non-founder-focused-lessons on Larry’s Amazon blog .

Larry Chiang scandalously shows granular tid-bits in how to start as an entrepreneur. He edits the Bloomberg BusinessWeek channel “What They Don’t Teach You at Business School”. After Chiang’s Harvard Law keynote, Harvard Business wrote: “What They Don’t Teach You at Stanford Business School“ (its the same title as his NY Times bestseller). If you read his scandalously awesome “What a Supermodel Can Teach a Stanford MBA” and “How to Get Man-Charm”, you will like his latest post:

Guacamole RECIPE: Don’t Ask Permission. Ask Forgiveness.

by Larry Chiang

Something surprising and new I observe in the market is the transparency of tech speakers.

If you liked this… Larry’s mentor Mark McCormack wrote this in 1983. His own book came out 09-09-09. It is called ‘What They Don’t Teach You At Stanford Business School‘ *** BONUS *** a party invite for you… Online event registration powered by Eventbrite

This post was drafted in an hour and needs your edits… email me if you see a spelling or grammatical error(s)… larry@larrychiang com

Larry Chiang started his first company UCMS in college. He mimicked his mentor, Mark McCormack, founder of IMG who wrote the book, “What They Don’t Teach You at Harvard Business School”. Chiang is a keynote speaker and bestselling author and spoke at Congress and World Bank.

Text or call him during office hours 11:11am or 11:11pm PST +/-11 minutes at 650-283-8008. Due to the volume of calls, he may place you on hold like a Scottsdale Arizona customer service rep. If you email him, be sure to include your cell number in the subject line. If you want him to email you his new articles…, ask him in an email

You can read more equally funny, but non-founder-focused-lessons on Larry’s Amazon blog .

Larry Chiang scandalously reveals how stuff really works and breaks it down. He edits the Bloomberg BusinessWeek channel “What They Don’t Teach You at Business School”. After Chiang’s Harvard Law keynote, Harvard Business wrote: “What They Don’t Teach You at Stanford Business School“ (its the same title as his NY Times bestseller). He is Entrepreneur in Residence at Stanford University. If you read his hilariously awesome “What a Supermodel Can Teach a Stanford MBA” and “How to Get Man-Charm”, you will like his latest post:

Entrepreneur Tip: Don’t Ask Permission. Ask Forgiveness.

By Larry Chiang

Asking for forgiveness (versus permission) is often a tip I have heard.

I hear them at keynotes and panels on entrepreneurship. The advice semi-motivates. The idea is to forge forward but there is RISK in having to ask for forgiveness. There is a risk of getting yelled at and embarrassed.

Well me and my controversial brand hardly gets yelled at. I break a lot of rules and didn’t have to ask for forgiveness or / and permission. This maneuver of Permission-Forgiveness is part of my Guacamole Recipe Series for Entrepreneurship. Guacamole is easy to make but hard to make in a legendary, award-winning fashion. I engineer guacamole recipes for entrepreneurs to beat the catch-22s of a startup.

Here are about 13 tactics broken down into 5 categories for how to “Don’t Ask Permission. Ask Forgiveness.”

-1- Align and Augment in a Value Added Way

I observe that there are 650 possible little details.

Designing a product launch in a new market?! 650 details.
Getting a new conference up?! 650 details
Investigating a murder as law enforcement?! Search 650 little details that the culprit needed to think through.

You are a genius and a hustler if you can think up of 400-425.

The saying, “There is always more you could do” is true because even a legendary and awesome thing only covers 425. There are still over 200 possible other things. This is your opportunity to not ask for permission to execute.

Align and augment by doing 30-35 of the over 200 possible other things for the entity that at best will execute 425 things.

For example, the GSB hosts an annual entrepreneurship mixer during Stanford Entrepreneur Week. It is really, really big and really really bad. After the two bad years, I decided to augment their event in a value added way by inviting 13 VCs. I called it the “Reverse VC Pitch (Sub) Party at GSB”. I asked for VCs to ‘sponsor’ and brought balloons to tie to the VCs wrists. I thought I’d add value by promoting the event to my VC friends to help them connect. I did not keep the PR and goodwill for myself but rather for a startup I was a fan of: Plancast — It was their first live event. I definitely did not ask for permission to hijack the GSB entrepreneurship mixer but provided added value for the party attendees and the VCs I roped into pitching and quasi-sponsoring (I did a rebate model where if the VC showed up, they got their money back).

What are the ’650 things’ leads to the next point…

-2- Guestimate Agenda

I love the technique of brainstorming “Multiple Party Agenda Fulfillment”. The old way was win-win. In academia and b-school it works. In the real world, there are multiple parties that all need to win. Engineering a win-win-win-win-win-win-win-win-win is possible when you start guestimating multiple parties and their multiple agendas.

For example, there was a new franchise in the making when the TechCrunch summer party was first at August Capital. I looked at their event and guessed that they were not going to have enough resources to produce a separate afterparty at a different venue. I also guessed that they might have sponsors that were wanting to get distribution for their message. Those people could sponsor and they would pay it directly to TechCrunch. The mulitple party agenda fulfillment component comes from brainstorming the potential parties involved and their agenda expanded HERE

-3- Prepare Countermeasures

You are going to be stepping on toes. Prepare countermeasures to those knee-jerk reactions.

There is a quote from TrueVentures conference.

‘Out of the 12,000 people there, only 200 people do all the coding and create the product. All the others are there to tell you why you can’t do what you want to do. None of those guys work for us.’”—Amit Kumar, Vurve.com

The bad news from the above example is that there are 11,800 wanting to pee on your parade. The good news is that most knee-jerk urination is not well thought through… Here are bullet points on specific reactions and the countermeasures required…

Pee Countermeasure
Terse Email – Open dialog. Be ok with communicating your 30-35 of 650 possible

Voicemail threat – Open dialog. Ask to be fired but not quite yet

General threat – Open dialog. Do above and give veto power

Meeting request – Open dialog. Meet on neutral ground and preview your full plan. Give credit and simiultaneously allow for plausible deniability

Legal threat – Open dialog. Remember a cease and desist is an opening negotiating position. They probably will love you when they realize you’re doing 30-35 things to augment their existing parade. The good news is that you’re gonna star in their next board meeting so you better start charming, preparing, countermeasuring, gathering up relationship capital and charming. I said charming 2x because its important.

Back channel threat – Open dialog but not too much. It’ll be along the lines of “As your friend, I am telling you…” Educate the back-channel communicator that you’re executing 30-35 things in a value added hijacking fashion. And that you’re open to feedback. And thank them for the back-channel communication

Preparing countermeasures goes a long way. You ask for forgiveness from a position of strength. Your hijack has momentum because you didn’t ask for permission. Here is how to get more momentum before you have to execute countermesures.

-4- Get Momentum Before You Ask Forgiveness and After Not Asking Permission

Not asking for permission allows you to do what others find so difficult: Execution.
Not asking for permission is best done if you know and understand the environment.
Not asking for permission gets you ahead with documented work that they can take credit for later. Be the point person in that effort.

My execution mentor, Jim Rohn, has my favorite quote… “No wonder they were successful… look at all they DID”

There is another quote: “The harder I work, the luckier I get”.

I recommend executing on the 30-35 so that you brainstormed. You and your startup are a snowball rolling down the hill. You are getting bigger and bigger. But make sure your getting big is stable versus leveraged. Stay balanced in your large-ness by…

-5- Transferring Power to the Host Organization.

In open field interrogation, I transfer power to people to see who they are. Open field interrogation is the opposite of waterboarding or closed room interrogation. Open field interrogation allows you to see what that organization does with power.

I seek to transfer power back to the host organization as a pre-emptive measure before I am forced to ask for forgiveness. An ounce of prevention may be worth of pound of cure, but an ounce of pre-emptive power transfer is worth a ton of relationship capital that can be used for getting forgiveness. Here is exactly how to pre-emptively transfer power.

Subject line forecasts, updates and previews — You are seeking to be transparent and open in your value added hijack

Ask to be fired — The best employee is one that you can steal the credit but also blame them if things go wrong. You will be this ‘best “employee”‘. You will be even better because you are temporary and they get the power because you “Asked to be fired (eventually)”

Give veto power — Presidents can shut down a bill. You give them veto power to cancel whatever you are working on.

Give power to line item veto — Dictators can line-item veto. A line-item veto allows them to have the ability to cancel the smallest of little things

Entrepreneurs — go out and gain a lot but not have to risk anything using these tips for “Don’t Ask Permission. Ask Forgiveness.” If there is a maneuver you want de-mystified, email me and I will concoct a guacamole recipe for you.

Entrepreneurship, promotion, launching a franchise, investigating murder all require execution of 650 little details.

Execution for both large and small organizations can take time. In not asking for permission, I start executing little details.

If you liked this… Larry’s mentor Mark McCormack wrote this in 1983. His own book came out 09-09-09. It is called ‘What They Don’t Teach You At Stanford Business School‘ *** BONUS *** a party invite for you… Online event registration powered by Eventbrite

This post was drafted in an hour and needs your edits… email me if you see a spelling or grammatical error(s)… larry@larrychiang com

Larry Chiang started his first company UCMS in college. He mimicked his mentor, Mark McCormack, founder of IMG who wrote the book, “What They Don’t Teach You at Harvard Business School”. Chiang is a keynote speaker and bestselling author and spoke at Congress and World Bank.

Text or call him during office hours 11:11am or 11:11pm PST +/-11 minutes at 650-283-8008. Due to the volume of calls, he may place you on hold like a Scottsdale Arizona customer service rep. If you email him, be sure to include your cell number in the subject line. If you want him to email you his new articles…, ask him in an email

You can read more equally funny, but non-founder-focused-lessons on Larry’s Amazon blog .

Larry Chiang teaches at a school that he could not get into and wrote a sequel to a book he read and re-read one time too many. He edits the Bloomberg BusinessWeek channel “What They Don’t Teach You at Business School”. After speaking at a school in the Boston area, Harvard Business wrote: “What They Don’t Teach You at Stanford Business School“ (the same title as his NY Times bestseller). He launched his book at a fashion show in NY called Mercedes Benz Fashion Week and wrote, “What a Supermodel Can Teach a Stanford MBA”. If you liked “9 VCs You’re Gonna Want to Avoid” and “How to Get Man-Charm”, you will like his latest post:

Perpetual Promotion Machine: Larry Chiang

By Remmy Oxley
(Unedited by Larry Chiang)

There is a perpetual promotional force of nature here in Silicon Valley. His name is Larry Chiang.

Goodness, he is really, really good at promotion. The guy sits on dizzying number of board seats (12 I know of) and is not a VC nor an angel investor. In the same way that cold fusion and perpetual motion using magnets are the promise of free energy, so is Larry Chiang’s use of events, social media and conferences to build momentum on itself. I basically said conferences twice because I can’t go to one where he isn’t speaking, hosting or promoting something.

He even tweeted:

All of his stuff promotes his other stuff.

This guy makes David Geffen look like a non- Operator.

Well, I learned something that is truly horrifying. He is an Entrepreneur in Residence at Stanford University. Extremely effen prestigious… From my research, the first.

And he even has a movie deal brewing: ProsperAss based on his 386 page book with 280 pictures which I will not name. I heard from a trusted friend that he met to ink a deal and that Scooter Braun may be co-producing. Re-cock-ulous. The twitter account has followers already. The kid even blogged movie quotes from a movie that isn’t made yet. He even convinced a large Christian organization to promote / produce it. THE MOVIE IS ABOUT STRIPPERS.

What effen gives.

Stanford EIR?! Movie deal?!

But did Stanford even check his academic references?! A simple call to 217-333-1000 could confirm whether or not he got a diploma. Forget about engineering… did he even get a degree in ANYTHING?!

He is extremely charming. I will give him that.

I will even say he is over-the-top awkwardly good looking. No, I am not in the gay mafia. The Ford Modelling agency did confirm he is on the active roster. He is also schedule to appear at Mercedes Benz Fashion Week. Hours of research and all I could confirm was that he is good looking and charming.

Someone call the registrar’s office at the University of Illinois in Urbana / Champaign: 217-333-1000.

In the same way that he claims he worked at a Chemical Sales Engineer and that he graduated with the highest starting compensation of $170k…, there is zero record of his ever having been enrolled in a chemistry class. He claims Steven Zumdahl is a mentor. Chiang even cited and sourced Zumdahl in his books and blog posts. Zumdahl is the author of “Chemistry”. It is one of the most used Chem textbooks on the planet. I bet Chiang just bought the book off of Amazon. And then I bet Chiang started emailing Steven Zumdahl versus really being in his class.

Here is another whopper. Duck9 with all of its users and real sales is not even a registered corporation. Vapor Incorporated.

Its like he just appeared. Made up a bunch of stuff out of nothing. Made up a family that all went Ivy. Made a bunch of money in credit*. Charmed a senator that became president**. Charmed college students***. Charmed entrepreneurs and mentored using “Guacamole” recipes??. Video. Built a legendary brand for himself with charm and a boatload of moxie.

These questions linger:
- How did he insert himself into the PayPal mafia so thoroughly?
- How does he know the editor of this blog, Tony Perkins so well?
- Did he ever sell cars?
- How did he get all the random knowledge that he possess. See quora.
- What is his real agenda?

I just don’t get it.

I don’t blame you for falling for any of it cuz I did too.

I gave him money to the ReverseVC pitch party in Austin at SXSW. Sure, I did not get cheated and sure he is a great time and sure I got a personal uptik in brand by aligning with him… But I just feel so duped that he was never in engineering school.

Here is the kicker. I bet he is a snot nosed 27 year old kid just pretending to be a seasoned veteran and somehow assumed the identity of a credit executive. Or he sold his soul.

Here is the whopper. I bet when he reads this slap to his face– that he will actually like it. I bet he actually executes his own book’s Chapter 11 and propels himself forward. Its his chapter on ‘Failure’.

This video was taken guerilla style off the Villagio Resort deck. Its probably something he crashed.

If you liked this… Larry’s mentor Mark McCormack wrote this in 1983. His own book came out 09-09-09. It is called ‘What They Don’t Teach You At Stanford Business School‘ *** BONUS *** a party invite for you… Online event registration powered by Eventbrite

This post was drafted in an hour and needs your edits… email me if you see a spelling or grammatical error(s)… larry@larrychiang com

Larry Chiang started his first company UCMS in college. He mimicked his mentor, Mark McCormack, founder of IMG who wrote the book, “What They Don’t Teach You at Harvard Business School”. Chiang is a keynote speaker and bestselling author and spoke at Congress and World Bank.

Text or call him during office hours 11:11am or 11:11pm PST +/-11 minutes at 650-283-8008. Due to the volume of calls, he may place you on hold like a Scottsdale Arizona customer service rep. If you email him, be sure to include your cell number in the subject line. If you want him to email you his new articles…, ask him in an email

You can read more equally funny, but non-founder-focused-lessons on Larry’s Amazon blog .

Larry Chiang teaches at a school that he could not get into and wrote a sequel to a book he read and re-read one time too many. He edits the Bloomberg BusinessWeek channel “What They Don’t Teach You at Business School”. After speaking at a school in the Boston area, Harvard Business wrote: “What They Don’t Teach You at Stanford Business School“ (the same title as his NY Times bestseller). He launched his book at a fashion show in NY called Mercedes Benz Fashion Week and wrote, “What a Supermodel Can Teach a Stanford MBA”. If you liked “9 VCs You’re Gonna Want to Avoid” and “How to Get Man-Charm”, you will like his latest post:

The Minimum Viable Blog Post

By Larry Chiang

The pillar of my effort to get distribution rests on MVBP. The Minimum Viable Blog Post.

Eric Ries has ‘Minimum Viable Product’. I have The Minimum Viable Blog Post. It is uses my 3, 2, 1 formula for blogging.

3 paragraphs, 2 pictures, 1 focus.
12 sentences total.

I argue that doing perfect work is tough.
I argue that having gotten it done and out into the wild is 100x better.

My book has a picture of the Stanford map with Sharpie writing.

An example MVBP is Kiran Divvala. I met him when I spoke at MIT Sloan.
http://kdivvela.posterous.com/3-paragraphs-12-sentences-2-pictures-1-focus

Another example is Jeff Lawrence. He was my student in ENGR145
http://larrychiangexperiment.wordpress.com/tag/jeff-lawrence-larry-chiang-experiment-granular-social-data-analytics-lab/

If you liked this… Larry’s mentor Mark McCormack wrote this in 1983. His own book came out 09-09-09. It is called ‘What They Don’t Teach You At Stanford Business School‘ *** BONUS *** a party invite for you… Online event registration powered by Eventbrite

This post was drafted in an hour and needs your edits… email me if you see a spelling or grammatical error(s)… larry@larrychiang com

Larry Chiang started his first company UCMS in college. He mimicked his mentor, Mark McCormack, founder of IMG who wrote the book, “What They Don’t Teach You at Harvard Business School”. Chiang is a keynote speaker and bestselling author and spoke at Congress and World Bank.

Text or call him during office hours 11:11am or 11:11pm PST +/-11 minutes at 650-283-8008. Due to the volume of calls, he may place you on hold like a Scottsdale Arizona customer service rep. If you email him, be sure to include your cell number in the subject line. If you want him to email you his new articles…, ask him in an email

You can read more equally funny, but non-founder-focused-lessons on Larry’s Amazon blog .