{"id":4057,"date":"2019-10-29T08:23:32","date_gmt":"2019-10-29T02:53:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/?p=4057"},"modified":"2019-10-29T08:23:32","modified_gmt":"2019-10-29T02:53:32","slug":"different-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/29\/different-2\/","title":{"rendered":"different"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I have been part of this startup ecosystem for some time now in different personas: investor, employee, and founder.  I am starting to see a new trend where many people have started schools to churn a startup. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The journey of starting a startup is different than getting an educational degree. I wonder why are we again thrown on a template of building a startup? Is it because we are selling the mantra: starting a startup is the best way to get rich quickly? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A lot many successful founders I have met personally told money\/glory was the byproduct. Starting a startup was more of an itch to prove ourselves, solving a problem, working closely with friends and like-minded people. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No two founders are the same, nor are their journeys. Why do they all have to go through formal teaching of how to run their business? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Putting lipstick on a pig will be not of any help. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been part of this startup ecosystem for some time now in different personas: investor, employee, and founder. I am starting to see a new trend where many people have started schools to churn a startup. The journey of starting a startup is different than getting an educational degree. I wonder why are we &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/29\/different-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;different&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100,3],"tags":[711],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4057"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4057"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4058,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4057\/revisions\/4058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}