{"id":1182,"date":"2005-07-11T11:54:54","date_gmt":"2005-07-11T15:54:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blg\/2005\/07\/11\/4-reasons-why-its-a-great-time-to-be-an-entrepreneur\/"},"modified":"2023-09-07T04:58:24","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T09:58:24","slug":"4-reasons-why-its-a-great-time-to-be-an-entrepreneur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/11\/4-reasons-why-its-a-great-time-to-be-an-entrepreneur\/","title":{"rendered":"4 reasons why it&#8217;s a great time to be an entrepreneur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>There&#8217;s never been a better time to be an entrepreneur because it&#8217;s never been cheaper to be one. Here&#8217;s one example. Excite.com took $3,000,000 to get from idea to launch. JotSpot took $100,000. Why on earth is there a 30X difference? There&#8217;s probably a lot of reasons, but here are my top four.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Why? <a href=\"http:\/\/bnoopy.typepad.com\/bnoopy\/2005\/06\/its_a_great_tim.html\">Read the entire post<\/a> to go in depth. (via <a href=\"http:\/\/i.never.nu\/article\/2468\/the-100k-or-less-startup\">i.never.nu<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s never been a better time to be an entrepreneur because it&#8217;s never been cheaper to be one. Here&#8217;s one example. Excite.com took $3,000,000 to get from idea to launch. JotSpot took $100,000. Why on earth is there a 30X difference? There&#8217;s probably a lot of reasons, but here are my top four. Why? Read&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/11\/4-reasons-why-its-a-great-time-to-be-an-entrepreneur\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">4 reasons why it&#8217;s a great time to be an entrepreneur<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1182"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9699,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182\/revisions\/9699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}