{"id":1755,"date":"2006-03-12T11:52:58","date_gmt":"2006-03-12T15:52:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blg\/2006\/03\/12\/panel-5-sink-or-swim-the-five-most-important-startup-decisions\/"},"modified":"2023-09-07T04:57:29","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T09:57:29","slug":"panel-5-sink-or-swim-the-five-most-important-startup-decisions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/12\/panel-5-sink-or-swim-the-five-most-important-startup-decisions\/","title":{"rendered":"panel 5: Sink or Swim: The Five Most Important Startup Decisions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>You&#8217;ve got a The Next Great Idea and three brilliant engineers who want nothing more to work insane schedules for a year. This panel will discuss the key decisions you&#8217;re going to face during your first year of existence that define the culture of your company. We&#8217;re not going to tell you how to get funded, we&#8217;re going to discuss what decisions matter and which ones don&#8217;t. Come hear it from the folks who&#8217;ve done it and, sometimes, done it right.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Evan Williams CEO Odeo, Joshua Schachter Creator of del.icio.us; director of engineering for Yahoo, del.icio.us, Joel Spolsky  CEO, Fog Creek Software, Michael Lopp  Sr Engineering Mgr, Apple, Cabel Sasser Co-Founder, Panic.<\/p>\n<p>With the web, mostly anyone with a project in mind can create a business with basically no money. <\/p>\n<p>moderator: <i>&#8216;did anybody here has a business plan?&#8217;<\/i><br \/>\npanelist: <i>&#8216;heeer, no!&#8217;<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;ve got a The Next Great Idea and three brilliant engineers who want nothing more to work insane schedules for a year. This panel will discuss the key decisions you&#8217;re going to face during your first year of existence that define the culture of your company. We&#8217;re not going to tell you how to get&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/12\/panel-5-sink-or-swim-the-five-most-important-startup-decisions\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">panel 5: Sink or Swim: The Five Most Important Startup Decisions<\/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":[30],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1755"}],"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=1755"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9131,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1755\/revisions\/9131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}