By Larry Chiang School before college was about bell curves. If you go to a school with grade inflation, bell curves are lost. It’s lost because all students at some top tier universities get As and Bs. Grading on the PURE bell curve means distribution at the high end and low end. Beating the bell curve is lost on top tier grads. This post is a call-to-action to be street smart. Beating the bell curve’s possible if you compile a slew of simple things organized in a pattern. For example, if you want to “Beat the FICO”, see http://www.duck9.com/blog/entrepreneurship/beat-the-fico/ Skip reading it and realize its 31 envelopes to get to a FICO over 800. Another example is for is founders in beating the bell curve. Lets be at the right side, successful side of the bell curve in founding a VC backed startup. There are a sequence of hashtags that help you gain traction, cross the innovation chasm and get distribution. I got these from Engineering 145 at Stanford, Technology Entrepreneirship, (ENGR 145, #ENGR145). Please re watch that video and tweet the hashtags at me, @larrychiang + #ENGR145. It’s for me to see you have read it. I could care less about your nascent twitter following of sub 300 people who do not read your feed. http://bit.ly/buster14512v is a bit ly I memorized that links to Set the results curve at SXSW. Join me? What is your name?
