{"id":5041,"date":"2015-06-24T23:13:22","date_gmt":"2015-06-25T03:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/?p=5041"},"modified":"2015-06-24T23:16:59","modified_gmt":"2015-06-25T03:16:59","slug":"prime-the-pump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/prime-the-pump\/","title":{"rendered":"Prime the pump"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By Larry Chiang<\/div>\n
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6\/24\/15, 10:16 AM<\/a><\/div>\n
“Prime the pump”<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Entrepreneurship and starting a ‘Mini Company Concept’ often refers to priming the pump. It’s using a fluid dynamics analogy to CS students. Metaphorically, you miss the subtlety that emotionally, the act of priming, is self-loathing, self-questioning and completely counterintuitive to the uninitiated <\/div>\n

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I mean why should you pour a perfectly good bucket of water down the well in the hopes of priming?<\/div>\n
A dozen more “priming the pump” entrepreneurship subtleties are here <\/a> <\/font><\/div>\n
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Google primed the pump by executing the “goto” business model better than goto. Distributing via Yahoo.<\/div>\n
My Harris Bank, Naperville banker primed my small business pump. <\/div>\n
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“Flow.”<\/span><\/div>\n

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“startup takes a life of its own”<\/span><\/div>\n
All words that connotate the fact that the pump is primed <\/span><\/div>\n

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By Larry Chiang Larry Chiang (@LarryChiang) 6\/24\/15, 10:16 AM “Prime the pump” Entrepreneurship and starting a ‘Mini Company Concept’ often refers to priming the pump. It’s using a fluid dynamics analogy to CS students. Metaphorically, you miss the subtlety that emotionally, the act of priming, is self-loathing, self-questioning and completely counterintuitive to the uninitiated  I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5041","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=5041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5041\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}