{"id":782,"date":"2018-05-07T15:27:43","date_gmt":"2018-05-07T15:27:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sp2hari.com\/?p=782"},"modified":"2020-06-20T08:25:52","modified_gmt":"2020-06-20T08:25:52","slug":"define-startup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sp2hari.com\/index.php\/2018\/05\/07\/define-startup\/","title":{"rendered":"#define startup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are a lot of ways to define a startup. Paul Graham defines a startup as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulgraham.com\/growth.html\">growth<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is how I would define it.<\/p>\n<p>A startup is an interesting &amp; brutal game. The reason why it is both interesting &amp; brutal is that&nbsp;the rules of the game keep on changing. Every 2 or 3 years, almost the entire rule set will be replaced. It is even crazy to imagine playing cricket for the first 1 hour, soccer for the next 2 hours and basketball for the remaining 1 hour.<\/p>\n<p>With the above definition, one can assume that playing by the same rules is a sure way to lose the game. Since no one knows when the rules of the game change, one can understand the rules only by observing the results of each round.<\/p>\n<p>#meta &#8211; The above definition of a startup also changes every few years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are a lot of ways to define a startup. Paul Graham defines a startup as growth. This is how I would define it. A startup is an interesting &amp; brutal game. The reason why it is both interesting &amp; brutal is that&nbsp;the rules of the game keep on changing. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-startuplife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sp2hari.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sp2hari.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sp2hari.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sp2hari.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sp2hari.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=782"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sp2hari.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1343,"href":"https:\/\/sp2hari.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782\/revisions\/1343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sp2hari.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sp2hari.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sp2hari.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}