{"id":1481,"date":"2014-11-30T12:07:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-30T11:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/silta.es\/juantatay\/2014\/11\/30\/entrepreneur-or-employee\/"},"modified":"2014-11-30T12:07:00","modified_gmt":"2014-11-30T11:07:00","slug":"entrepreneur-or-employee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silta.es\/juantatay\/entrepreneur-or-employee\/","title":{"rendered":"Entrepreneur or Employee\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"color: #323333; font-size: 16px;\">\n<blockquote><p>Being a startup entrepreneur is not for everybody and it\u2019s not the only desirable career choice. I also know that many people have families and cost obligations that don\u2019t allow the kinds of financial risks associated with starting a company. And for others the hours, stresses and sacrifices in personal relationships are not worth it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>Interesting tidbits from Marlk Suster&#8217;s&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bothsidesofthetable.com\/2014\/11\/29\/the-very-first-startup-founder-you-need-to-invest-in-is-you\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+BothSidesOfTheTable+%28Both+Sides+of+the+Table%29\">The Very First Startup Founder You Need to Invest in is You<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>\u201cIf you\u2019re willing to go into debt for $100,000-150,000 to get an MBA and have 2 years of your life with no work experience why on Earth wouldn\u2019t you just join the most ambitious early-stage startup you know and work for a paltry salary to get the experience?<\/i>&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><i>At the end of the period you\u2019ll have zero debt, 2 year\u2019s experience and have at least earned money.\u201d<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>\u2026&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>We had raised a $2 million seed round, which meant taking almost no salary so we could afford to hire staff. Back then there was no \u201ccloud\u201d so we had to plow money into hardware, software licenses and web hosting.<br \/>These days everybody wants to be an angel. Before you start writing your friends checks for their startups, get out your checkbook and bet on you.<br \/>Angel Yourself<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being a startup entrepreneur is not for everybody and it\u2019s not the only desirable career choice. I also know that many people have families and cost obligations that don\u2019t allow the kinds of financial risks associated with starting a company. And for others the hours, stresses and sacrifices in personal relationships are not worth it.  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,32,53,31,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosillas-empresariales","category-economia","category-eficiencia","category-la-vida-misma","category-start-it-up"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/silta.es\/juantatay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/silta.es\/juantatay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/silta.es\/juantatay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silta.es\/juantatay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silta.es\/juantatay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/silta.es\/juantatay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/silta.es\/juantatay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silta.es\/juantatay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silta.es\/juantatay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}