{"id":13176,"date":"2020-04-25T21:55:37","date_gmt":"2020-04-26T01:55:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/?p=13176"},"modified":"2020-04-26T00:02:23","modified_gmt":"2020-04-26T04:02:23","slug":"getting-people-to-pay-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/getting-people-to-pay-you\/","title":{"rendered":"getting people to pay you"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<table style=\"border: 1px solid black; padding: 8px\">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"bottom\">\n<td width=\"48\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/1824002576\/pg-railsconf_normal.jpg\" style=\"width: 48px; height: 48px; padding-right: 8px\"><\/td>\n<td><b>Paul Graham (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/paulg?s=11\">@paulg<\/a>)<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\">\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/paulg\/status\/1254103138531004418?s=11\">4\/25\/20, 12:41 PM<\/a><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/\u00e2\u20ac\u00aa@garrytan\u00e2\u20ac\u00ac\u00e2\u0081\u00a9\"><\/a><a href=\"mailto:\u00e2\u0081\u00a6\u00e2\u20ac\u00aa@garrytan\u00e2\u20ac\u00ac\u00e2\u0081\u00a9\">\u00e2\u0081\u00a6\u00e2\u20ac\u00aa@garrytan\u00e2\u20ac\u00ac\u00e2\u0081\u00a9<\/a> I wish I&#8217;d known how simple &#8220;business&#8221; can be when reduced to its essentials, which it often is in a startup. I thought that hacking was easy, but that &#8220;business&#8221; was a great mystery that I needed a &#8220;business person&#8221; to do.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Really it&#8217;s just getting people to pay you.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/download?ref_src=MailTweet-iOS\">Download<\/a> the Twitter app<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"AppleMailSignature\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0)\">Blogged from my work iPhone, 650-283-8008, number that&nbsp;Steve Jobs texted me on<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Graham (@paulg) 4\/25\/20, 12:41 PM \u00e2\u0081\u00a6\u00e2\u20ac\u00aa@garrytan\u00e2\u20ac\u00ac\u00e2\u0081\u00a9 I wish I&#8217;d known how simple &#8220;business&#8221; can be when reduced to its essentials, which it often is in a startup. I thought that hacking was easy, but that &#8220;business&#8221; was a great mystery that I needed a &#8220;business person&#8221; to do. Really it&#8217;s just getting people to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stanford-engineering","category-stanford-entrepreneurship"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}