{"id":1567,"date":"2015-05-20T16:00:04","date_gmt":"2015-05-20T10:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thinkshop.in\/?p=1567"},"modified":"2023-03-07T12:34:20","modified_gmt":"2023-03-07T07:04:20","slug":"three-choices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/2015\/05\/three-choices\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Choices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the era of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Long_tail\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Long Tail<\/a>, new business enterprises need to make some key choices to succeed.<\/p>\n<p>A post from Seth Godin highlights <a href=\"http:\/\/sethgodin.typepad.com\/seths_blog\/2009\/08\/education-at-the-crossroads.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the choices involved<\/a> in offering higher education:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Should this be scarce or abundant?<\/p>\n<p>Should this be free or expensive?<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.25\">Should this be about school or about learning?<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As it turns out, all you need to do is replace the last one with its generic equivalent:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Should this be scarce or abundant?<\/li>\n<li>Should this be free or expensive?<\/li>\n<li>Should this be about\u00a0what <em>used<\/em> to matter\u00a0or what <em>really<\/em> matters today?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Think about it. Three choices. And, the answers will make all the difference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the era of The Long Tail, new business enterprises need to make some key choices to succeed. A post from Seth Godin highlights the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[9,14],"class_list":["post-1567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-quality","tag-work"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1567","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=1567"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4063,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1567\/revisions\/4063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}