{"id":130,"date":"2012-07-06T14:54:21","date_gmt":"2012-07-06T13:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/lucillevalentine\/?p=130"},"modified":"2012-07-06T14:54:21","modified_gmt":"2012-07-06T13:54:21","slug":"would-i-fund-it-myself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/lucillevalentine\/2012\/07\/06\/would-i-fund-it-myself\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cWould I fund it myself?\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Focussing on funders for a new business idea encourages a culture of dependence.\u00a0 An innovation cycle that contains venture capital or other funders makes it seem like a safe option, that the funder needs to be made happy, and by making the venture capitalist or business angel happy that you are doing the right thing.\u00a0 A validation, if you like, as though you are getting a gold star from your teacher for good handwriting.<\/p>\n<p>But a business idea does not work in your head, it does not work in a presentation to potential funders&#8230; a business idea works in the execution of the business idea.\u00a0 In the doing of it.\u00a0 The question is not \u201cwill someone fund it?\u201d it is \u201cCan I do it? Can I adjust my idea so that someone will buy it? Would I fund it myself?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Focussing on funders for a new business idea encourages a culture of dependence.\u00a0 An innovation cycle that contains venture capital or other funders makes it seem like a safe option, that the funder needs to be made happy, and by making the venture capitalist or business angel happy that you are doing the right thing.\u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/lucillevalentine\/2012\/07\/06\/would-i-fund-it-myself\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u201cWould I fund it myself?\u201d<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1089,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/lucillevalentine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/lucillevalentine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/lucillevalentine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/lucillevalentine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1089"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/lucillevalentine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/lucillevalentine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/lucillevalentine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions\/131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/lucillevalentine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/lucillevalentine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/lucillevalentine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}