How to Host a Minimum Viable Party at SXSW

• Post pictures on Tumblr/Posterous/Flickr

• Post a minimum viable Facebook photo album after the event (3 pictures minimum)

Q: Larry Chiang, how do I get VIPs there?

A: I wrote a post about man-charm. I would read and execute that.

Q: How do you make money just giving away space?

A: I make money doing credit card lead generation. Right now I have a monopoly because I executed How to get a law passed for $217. Being a VC is my hobby right now but this fund and my next fund are real.

Q: How did you get the space?

A: I had the space last year. I hosted Pop Up Accelerator and SXSW Christian party.

Q: A Christian party. Seriously?!

A: Yup. I might get a film deal out of that party. I am en fuego like that where deals and awesome-sauce comes pouring out even when I am just goofing around. And I am hosting 11 Oscar parties between now and the 2013 Oscars with my anchor event being the Oscars Fashion party at Mercedes Benz Fashion Week.

Q: Are you joking? I can’t tell if you’re serious.

A: Even when I am joking in tone, I am 100 percent dead serious. You see, if I were serious, you would see what results I get and say, “Larry Chiang is so talented that I could never do what he does.” By being more approachable and seemingly dumb, I motivate smart people to dumb themselves down to the mind-numbing exercise that is entrepreneurship.

So, Seth Levine probably thinks I am full of bullshit, but I am not trying to impress VCs. I am trying to get all y’all entrepreneurs and pre-entrepreneurs to execute and get the knowledge of ENGR145 before you take my Engineering 145 class this summer at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California.

Disclosure: I financially benefit from Stanford University and Duck9.com.

Author: Larry Chiang

Silicon Valley "hyper-networker" Larry Chiang is the founder and CEO of credit advisory service Duck9, the author of the 2009 book What They Don't Teach You at Stanford Business School, and the author of a BusinessWeek MBA Blogs column, "What They Don't Teach You at Business School." He writes on granular, tid-bit tactics to help entrepreneurs. He runs a fund called "Larry Chiang Stanford G51 Fund of Stanford Founders."