{"id":12602,"date":"2014-07-18T11:46:44","date_gmt":"2014-07-18T18:46:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/etec522m.sites.olt.ubc.ca\/?p=12602"},"modified":"2014-07-18T11:46:44","modified_gmt":"2014-07-18T18:46:44","slug":"start-up-considerations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept13\/2014\/07\/18\/start-up-considerations\/","title":{"rendered":"Start Up Considerations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For those of us who are interested in moving forward with a start up after this course, please consider the following article from the BBC:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-28331659\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-28331659\">http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-28331659<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This article interviews three venture capitalists as to what qualities a new venture should have to get their attention. A must read. An interesting point they raise is that they do not accept &#8216;cold calls&#8217;. To get their attention, you must first get to know someone they already know. They never fund projects &#8216;off the street&#8217;. Knowing the right people is as important as it has always has been.<\/p>\n<p>Best Wishes<\/p>\n<p>Maxim<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those of us who are interested in moving forward with a start up after this course, please consider the following article from the BBC: http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-28331659 This article interviews three venture capitalists as to what qualities a new venture should have to get their attention. A must read. An interesting point they raise is that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[855644],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evas-cafe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}