{"id":236609,"date":"2010-01-27T11:16:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-27T16:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/37signals.com\/svn\/posts\/2123-of-all-the-sources-of-funds-for-an-early"},"modified":"2010-01-27T11:16:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-27T16:16:00","slug":"quote-of-all-the-sources-of-funds-for-an-early","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/236609","title":{"rendered":"QUOTE: Of all the sources of funds for an early"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Of all the sources of funds for an early stage venture, revenue is the most compelling demonstration of traction. Too many entrepreneurs view fund raising as an accomplishment in and of itself&#8230;A lot of what\u2019s written about Silicon Valley entrepreneurship is actually part of a sales pitch or positioning for the venture ecosystem.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;Sean Murphy in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.skmurphy.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/09\/overnight-success\/\">&#8220;Overnight Success&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/37signals\/beMH?a=HflbI3ju3Q0:kKt5DyL-hPs:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/37signals\/beMH?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/37signals\/beMH?a=HflbI3ju3Q0:kKt5DyL-hPs:7Q72WNTAKBA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/37signals\/beMH?d=7Q72WNTAKBA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of all the sources of funds for an early stage venture, revenue is the most compelling demonstration of traction. Too many entrepreneurs view fund raising as an accomplishment in and of itself&#8230;A lot of what\u2019s written about Silicon Valley entrepreneurship is actually part of a sales pitch or positioning for the venture ecosystem. &#8212;Sean Murphy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7020,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7020"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236609\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}