{"id":139,"date":"2003-05-16T20:19:58","date_gmt":"2003-05-16T20:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/blog\/2003\/05\/16\/sound-business-advice\/"},"modified":"2003-05-16T20:19:58","modified_gmt":"2003-05-16T20:19:58","slug":"sound-business-advice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/2003\/05\/sound-business-advice\/","title":{"rendered":"Sound Business Advice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The group of judges that preside over the MIT $50K Entrepreneurship Competition picked their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dbusinessnews.com\/cgi-bin\/csNews\/csNews.cgi?database=bostonheadlines%2edb&amp;command=viewone&amp;id=608&amp;op=t\" target=\"_blank\">Top 10 Recommendations for Startups<\/a> this week :<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>1. Find a customer for whom your product or service is a &quot;must have&quot; and who will buy again.<\/p>\n<p>2. If you can avoid raising venture capital, do so. If you need venture capital, raise more than you think you need. Either way, focus on sales and conserve cash.<\/p>\n<p>3. Surround yourself with good people and let them do their jobs. Don&#8217;t get caught up in control issues.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Some real gems of wisdom here ; Advice that would be invaluable to all kinds of businesses (and managers), not just startups.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The group of judges that preside over the MIT $50K Entrepreneurship Competition picked their Top 10 Recommendations for Startups this week : Some real gems of wisdom here ; Advice that would be invaluable to all kinds of businesses (and managers), not just startups.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-work"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}