{"id":248,"date":"2008-10-28T11:52:50","date_gmt":"2008-10-28T15:52:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hepguru.com\/blog\/?p=248"},"modified":"2008-11-02T23:50:28","modified_gmt":"2008-11-03T03:50:28","slug":"stay-slim-build-something-great-and-evangelize-like-crazy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hepguru.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/stay-slim-build-something-great-and-evangelize-like-crazy\/","title":{"rendered":"Stay slim, build something great, evangelize like crazy. Repeat."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;The cost of a pure, boot-strapped, startups today is really the <strong>time<\/strong> the founders put into it. Don&#8217;t pay for software, don&#8217;t sign an office lease, and don&#8217;t hire a PR firm. Stay slim, build something great and wait. If it doesn&#8217;t grow make the product better and wait some more.  <strong>Keep that process up until you find something that makes people  absolutely rabid for your product.<\/strong>&#8221; &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mahalo.com\">Jason Calacanis<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The cost of a pure, boot-strapped, startups today is really the time the founders put into it. Don&#8217;t pay for software, don&#8217;t sign an office lease, and don&#8217;t hire a PR firm. Stay slim, build something great and wait. If it doesn&#8217;t grow make the product better and wait some more. Keep that process up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quoted"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hepguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hepguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hepguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hepguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hepguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hepguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hepguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hepguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hepguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}