InfoChachkie

APRIL 16, 2012

Steve notes that in 2005, when Four Steps was published, conventional wisdom at business schools was that, “Startups are nothing more than a smaller version of a large company. One of my first posts was entitled The MBA Education And Other Oxymorons. Startup Business Plans Are Oxymoronic. That was the implicit statement.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 16, 2016

By avoiding an entire semester of Core classes (one fourth of my entire Wharton education), I was able to take every single entrepreneurial course offered by the University, while simultaneously earning a Minor Degree in drinking beer and playing poker. Pstat 173 Risk Theory. Computer Science.

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APRIL 17, 2012

Brad wrote up his answer here – you should read it because it’s very instructive for how I believe communities ought to think about naming conventions. World-class education including Caltech, USC and UCLA. My views are pretty well known. In his blog he says, “I responded that I thought it was stupid. LA should be LA.”

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JUNE 25, 2015

Many people said, “phone calls are dead, people want to text” but luckily conventional wisdom is often wrong. What happened was the explosion of mobile phones, the decreasing effectiveness of banner ads, the limited appeal of filling out forms in mobile browsers and, BAM!

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 28, 2011

In the spirit of Conventional Wisdom Isn’t , the founders of Campus Explorer did not, “flow with the go” when they founded their higher-education website. Exploring The Campus. Campus Explorer earns most of its revenue through lead-generation.

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OCTOBER 25, 2009

He has the most wisdom I’ve seen from a VC and I know I’m going to learn something with every interaction. They can tell you what the “conventional wisdom&# would be for your decisions. I have dozens of other entrepreneurs that do nothing but gush about Gus and these are in full confidence since we bash others.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 9, 2012

Such mini-ventures, as described in Small Ideas, Big Benefits , will not only educate you, but will reduce your risk when you exit the Herd. As is true with most Conventional Wisdom , it makes a great headline, but it is misrepresentative of the facts. Your smaller, more nimble part-time startup can outperform BDCs.

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AUGUST 25, 2011

It’s not always the obvious sources of education that shape you the most. Challenge conventional wisdom. Don’t get me wrong – I loved economics. But poly sci taught me critical thinking and writing skills that I didn’t get in my econ classes. Fight monoculture. Question authority.

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JANUARY 31, 2010

Don’t confuse this with a tour-de-force education on the finer details of how your company operations. The conventional wisdom is that the audience can only remember 3 simple things about any presentation 10 minutes after they’ve seen it. You’re there to leave an impression – not to educate.

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DECEMBER 5, 2010

But AOL brought online services, email, chat and discussion boards to the masses and thus educated a generation that paved the way for others. The conventional wisdom at Fox’s headquarters is that MySpace had “made&# both YouTube & Photobucket by allowing them distribution. AOL was closed, the Internet was open.

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MARCH 13, 2010

But the reality is that most “conventional wisdom&# is a bit like Hollywood films. Conventional wisdom is often a bit lazy it reaches the masses of audience that are often not as informed on issues as those that live on the inside of companies and industries. That’s how I learn, to0.

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AUGUST 30, 2010

Sounds obvious now, but as I wrote the original piece the DJIA had already come roaring back from 6,600 to 9,865 so it was certainly against conventional wisdom. They would need to turn to non-conventional means to spur the economy such as “ quantitative easing.&#.

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MARCH 11, 2010

Obviously when a meme like “fail fast&# forms and conventional wisdom builds in support of it you’re likely to get attacked for saying, “the emperor has no clothes.&# But I just said it. I say define a strategy, test it up front and pivot if you’re not getting the traction you had expected. How do I know this?

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MAY 7, 2011

Lesson: As CEO, it is your responsibility to educate everyone and mediate the difficult tensions that can arise by removing excuses. A lot of it does seem like conventional wisdom today, but back then it wasn’t. Engineers don’t blame salespeople for making them work weekends to help them hit their quota.

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