{"id":1499,"date":"2009-06-01T18:06:49","date_gmt":"2009-06-01T22:06:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.local\/?p=1499"},"modified":"2009-06-01T18:06:49","modified_gmt":"2009-06-01T22:06:49","slug":"undercut-by-passion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.local\/undercut-by-passion\/","title":{"rendered":"Undercut by Passion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I help organise a local tech entrepreneurs drinks once a month, it was at the last one\u00a0I was discussing Chris Andersons article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/techbiz\/it\/magazine\/16-03\/ff_free\">Free<\/a>&#8230; with Nic of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.litmos.com\">Litmos<\/a> a few night backs, we both agreed that yes you can get undercut by free.<\/p>\n<p>BUT<\/p>\n<p>If you look at the long run, who is still about, who keeps turning up? It&#8217;s those that persevere.<\/p>\n<p>(Especially when you look at bootstrapped startups.)<\/p>\n<p>In order to do so you must be making money somewhere.<\/p>\n<p>You must also have a passion for what you do.<\/p>\n<p>Sure someone can undercut your service by making it free but do they have the passion to keep at it? Through the hard times, the ups and the downs.<\/p>\n<p>You see you can be undercut by free and still thrive but being undercut by passion? That&#8217;s a hard hard battle.<\/p>\n<p>You should <strong>stick to what you&#8217;re passionate about<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I help organise a local tech entrepreneurs drinks once a month, it was at the last one\u00a0I was discussing Chris Andersons article Free&#8230; with Nic of Litmos a few night backs, we both agreed that yes you can get undercut by free. BUT If you look at the long run, who is still about, who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[155,899,1190],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1499"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1499\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}