Comments on: How to Work The Room 4.0: Getting “Man-Charm”

By: 7 People To Avoid At SXSW

7 People To Avoid At SXSW — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 21:19:18 +0000

[...] can be distracted by your hawt ass, how good can they be at work? Rising “hitters” use man-charm up until closing time of a conference [...]

By: How to Go from Multi-Millionaire to Billionaire -- bub.blicio.us

How to Go from Multi-Millionaire to Billionaire -- bub.blicio.us — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 16:36:00 +0000

[...] “How to Not to Work The Room“; “8 Tips On How to Get Mentored“; “Man Charm“; and “One Hit [...]

By: 10 Biggest Mistakes During VC Fundraising -- bub.blicio.us

10 Biggest Mistakes During VC Fundraising -- bub.blicio.us — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 15:46:37 +0000

[...] Read my best stuff: work a party, man-charming + how to work a twitter party. [...]

By: “How to Hack BlogWorld” -- bub.blicio.us

“How to Hack BlogWorld” -- bub.blicio.us — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 18:29:07 +0000

[...] Conference Man-charm . In Wall Street, Bud Fox says to his mentor, “I’ve always dreamed of one thing and [...]

By: Joey Mucha

Joey Mucha — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 23:27:20 +0000

Brilliant analysis of the networking pool, us “tech-men” live in and must navigate to succeed. When 90% of the people at these events are men, we must take all of your advice to heart and utilize the best strategy for each specific situation (we find ourselves in).

Humor, weeds, alpha-males and post-parties – ain’t no party like a Larry Chiang party. Holler.

By: Larry Chiang To Host Secret Society of Entrepreneur’s Panel At BlogWorld | Blog World Expo Blog

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 07:09:55 +0000

[...] a surprise. But if you show up Sunday September 20th you won’t be disappointed in what the Master of Man-Charm and author of “What They Don’t Teach You at Stanford Business School” has up his [...]

By: Web 2.0 Celebrity Missteps: How not to work the room « FoundRead

Web 2.0 Celebrity Missteps: How not to work the room « FoundRead — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 15:31:44 +0000

[...] not magnetizing, you’re repelling. You are competing for people’s attention. Charm them, someone else will. If you’re not charming them, you might as well be outright rejecting their core being. Bring [...]

By: 9 People You Meet at Y Combinator (and what you can learn from them). « FoundRead

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 16:23:33 +0000

[...] lunch. 4. Mr. Glad-Hand Palm-Presser. This might be taken as good or bad news, but no one fit this description here. 5. The All-Academic. Took copious notes of everything said, multi-tasked by updating the blog and [...]

By: How to Build Good Credit for Your Business « FoundRead

How to Build Good Credit for Your Business « FoundRead — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 14:53:45 +0000

[...] to set up your D&B with your D&B rep. If you don’t have a D&B representative, woo one or charm [...]

By: Philipp Schumann

Philipp Schumann — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 17:22:00 +0000

This must be meta-irony, or its sickeningly saddening.

Why would I want to be a tech founder?

Many reasons, but among them chiefly: to avoid, escape and roar past everything that in order to function depends on “gangs”, secret codes, circles, schmoozing, “rooms” to be “worked” etc. Founders are people with brains. If they needed, wanted or preferred this kind of stuff, they would take their brain and work in finance, politics or consulting, where there’s enough idiots around for those games. Only exception: tech bubbles where gold diggers and VCs dominate the scene, rather than rock-solid growth-and-value-creating (rather than mega-hyped) technology (rather than web designs).

“You really think the Manageing Partner of PWC wants to sit through another drab board-room meeting about why your company’s CRM will revolutionise his office? f*ck no – he wants to slurp grange till 2:00am with a supplier / client who sprouts a bit of personality….”

Where’s the personality in this? Sounds like the next thing we’d do is hang out at a strip club. Not my taste and I won’t do business with such a glorified Joe Trucker in-a-suit. What do I need someone without brains for?

There is always a better strategy than schmoozing: Be one whom people want to schmooze, then work with those who don’t do it.

By: rick

rick — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 21:00:04 +0000

I’m sorry, did you say you spent $3000 e-stalking a VC that didn’t like your idea?! That’s f’n funny. But funny in a lunatic-in-the-corner-talking-to-himself kinda way.

woop-woop! the internal alarm bells are ringing.

By: Saeed

Saeed — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 20:47:52 +0000

It made complete sense to me… Guess you guys still need to get stomped into the Entrepreneur Gang.

By: Nick Buick

Nick Buick — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 19:46:14 +0000

I thought it was pissfunny…Entreprenure Gang Symbol… hahaha.

I think a few people totally missed the point here – he probably was drunk when he posted this. All the more reason he’d be a top bloke to do business with… the whole ‘vacation’ thing.

You really think the Manageing Partner of PWC wants to sit through another drab board-room meeting about why your company’s CRM will revolutionise his office? f*ck no – he wants to slurp grange till 2:00am with a supplier / client who sprouts a bit of personality….

To him go the spoils.

By: Huh?

Huh? — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 09:52:05 +0000

I thought I was losing my mind!

I’m glad to see no one one else understood this jibberish.

1 star.

Please don’t let him post again.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 01:58:39 +0000

I am lost.

But, Larry just pointed something out to me. When I attempt numbers 1 thru 13 I actually spew a mixture of 1 thru 4.
Not good at the man charm…or woman charm for that matter. Dogs like me though.

By: Brian

Brian — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 19:48:43 +0000

My first reaction while reading this post was “whoa, I’m really out of it, how old is this guy Larry?”, but by the time I was done reading my thought changed to “he must have been drunk.”…I wanna like this post, I just don’t get it…