WhatIWishIKnewWhenIWas20

What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20 A Crash Course on Making Your Place in the World Tina Seelig For Josh, Happy 20th Birthday Contents 1 Buy One, Get Two Free 2 The Upside-Down Circus 3 Bikini or Die 4 Please Take Out Your Wallets 5 The Secret Sauce of Silicon Valley 6 No Way…Engineering Is for Girls 7 Turn Lemonade into Helicopters 8 Paint the Target around the Arrow 9 Will This Be on the Exam? 10 Experimental Artifacts Acknowledgments Notes About the Author Copyright About the Publisher Chapter 1 BUY ONE, GET TWO FREE What would you do to earn money if all you had was five dollars and two hours? This is the assignment I gave students in one of my classes at Stanford University. Each of fourteen teams received an envelope with five dollars of “seed funding” and was told they could spend as much time as they wanted planning. However, once they cracked open the envelope, they had two hours to generate as much money as possible. I gave them from Wednesday afternoon until Sunday evening to complete the assignment. Then, on Sunday evening, each team had to send me one slide describing what they had done, and on Monday afterno......