{"id":623,"date":"2003-06-19T19:34:19","date_gmt":"2003-06-19T19:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntu.my\/wp30\/archives\/2003\/06\/19\/startups.html"},"modified":"2003-06-19T19:34:19","modified_gmt":"2003-06-19T19:34:19","slug":"startups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/archives\/2003\/06\/19\/startups.html","title":{"rendered":"startups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday someone told me that in order to be successful in a startup, you have to have a combination of unalterable driven direction mixed with paranoia.  Added to this, you need to be motivated by commercial successes (and thus profit).<\/p>\n<p>I like thinking about how people use technology to make themselves happier.  While i&#8217;m completely OCD about money issues, i&#8217;m rarely driven to mark my successes as such.<\/p>\n<p>Four years ago, i was asked when i would start my startup; the same question was posed to me today.  In both situations, my gut still believes that i could never actually be successful at starting a startup.  Of course, when asked what i imagine my role to be in the corporate world, i can only really come up with &#8220;muse.&#8221;  I really like toiling with ideas, making others see the fascination in them; this is why i like teaching, although i&#8217;m starting to also wonder if this is the kind of capability that has strength in other domains.<\/p>\n<p>I really hate that bi-annual contemplation about what i&#8217;m going to do when i grow up, but i seem to do it anyhow.  Must think Peter Pan.  Will never grow up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday someone told me that in order to be successful in a startup, you have to have a combination of unalterable driven direction mixed with paranoia. Added to this, you need to be motivated by commercial successes (and thus profit). I like thinking about how people use technology to make themselves happier. While i&#8217;m completely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflections-rants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}