{"id":779,"date":"2012-05-30T19:59:14","date_gmt":"2012-05-30T23:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/?p=779"},"modified":"2012-05-30T20:05:28","modified_gmt":"2012-05-31T00:05:28","slug":"keep-it-small-keep-it-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/keep-it-small-keep-it-all\/","title":{"rendered":"Keep It Small, Keep It All"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Larry Chiang<\/p>\n

“Go big or go home” is what VCs tell us.<\/p>\n

I am telling you to keep it small and keep it all.<\/p>\n

As an entrepreneur, we are constantly on the look-out for torpedoes that can sink our startup ship. When our ship is large and filled with employees, one little mis-fire and we are under. Business is volatile.<\/p>\n

See the treasure management graph https:\/\/gigaom.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/03\/graph.jpg<\/a><\/p>\n

Read the GigaOm article about Finding Leprechan Treasure https:\/\/gigaom.com\/2008\/03\/17\/st-pats-day-special-12-steps-to-finding-founders-gold\/<\/a><\/p>\n

What They Don’t Teach You at School About Risk https:\/\/aonetwork.com\/AOStory\/What-They-Dont-Teach-You-School-About-Risk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Larry Chiang “Go big or go home” is what VCs tell us. I am telling you to keep it small and keep it all. As an entrepreneur, we are constantly on the look-out for torpedoes that can sink our startup ship. When our ship is large and filled with employees, one little mis-fire and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-credit-secrets"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779","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=779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}