{"id":732,"date":"2009-06-02T09:08:59","date_gmt":"2009-06-02T09:08:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localenterprise.wordpress.com\/?p=732"},"modified":"2009-06-02T09:08:59","modified_gmt":"2009-06-02T09:08:59","slug":"how-long-did-it-take-to-launch-your-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/2009\/06\/02\/how-long-did-it-take-to-launch-your-business\/","title":{"rendered":"How Long Did it Take to Launch Your Business?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the title of a <a href=\"http:\/\/hellomynameisscott.blogspot.com\/2009\/06\/how-long-did-it-take-you-to-launch-your.html\">great post<\/a> over at mynameisscott.<\/p>\n<p>What do you mean by launch?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Open for business?<\/li>\n<li>Make a sale?<\/li>\n<li>Break-even?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>He ends,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>if by launch you mean figure out what I am doing &#8211; well I am still working on that one!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Interestingly Scott starts his exploration of &#8216;launch&#8217; with &#8216;idea generation&#8217;.\u00a0 But we could trace the origins of his enterprise journey way back before that.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What experiences led him to believe that he could turn an idea into a business?<\/li>\n<li>What gave him the belief in the power of his own ideas?<\/li>\n<li>How come his ideas seem to survive when for so many their ideas are quickly crushed and broken?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I think that these are the questions that we need to explore if we are to really understand how to develop more enterprising communities.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Share this Post<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"sharepost\"><a href=\"mailto:?subject=&amp;body=http%3A%2F%2Flocalenterprise.wordpress.com%2F2009%2F06%2F02%2F%3Cspan+id%3D%22editable%2Dpost%2Dname%22+title%3D%22Click+to+edit+this+part+of+the+permalink%22%3Ehow%2Dlong%2Ddid%2Di%2026%2Dyour%2Dbusiness%2F\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.picturesurf.org\/img\/shreml.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Flocalenterprise.wordpress.com%2F2009%2F06%2F02%2F%3Cspan+id%3D%22editable%2Dpost%2Dname%22+title%3D%22Click+to+edit+this+part+of+the+permalink%22%3Ehow%2Dlong%2Ddid%2Di%2026%2Dyour%2Dbusiness%2F\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.picturesurf.org\/img\/shrfb.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/home?status=http%3A%2F%2Flocalenterprise.wordpress.com%2F2009%2F06%2F02%2F%3Cspan+id%3D%22editable%2Dpost%2Dname%22+title%3D%22Click+to+edit+this+part+of+the+permalink%22%3Ehow%2Dlong%2Ddid%2Di%2026%2Dyour%2Dbusiness%2F\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.picturesurf.org\/img\/shrtwr.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/digg.com\/submit?url=http%3A%2F%2Flocalenterprise.wordpress.com%2F2009%2F06%2F02%2F%3Cspan+id%3D%22editable%2Dpost%2Dname%22+title%3D%22Click+to+edit+this+part+of+the+permalink%22%3Ehow%2Dlong%2Ddid%2Di%2026%2Dyour%2Dbusiness%2F&amp;title=&amp;bodytext=&amp;media=&amp;topic=\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.picturesurf.org\/img\/shrdig.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/save?v=5&amp;noui&amp;jump=close&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Flocalenterprise.wordpress.com%2F2009%2F06%2F02%2F%3Cspan+id%3D%22editable%2Dpost%2Dname%22+title%3D%22Click+to+edit+this+part+of+the+permalink%22%3Ehow%2Dlong%2Ddid%2Di%2026%2Dyour%2Dbusiness%2F&amp;title=\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.picturesurf.org\/img\/shrdel.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Posts\"><ul class=\"entry-meta\"><li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Olympic Gold &#8211; 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What do you mean by launch? Open for business? Make a sale? Break-even? He ends, if by launch you mean figure out what I am doing &#8211; well I am still working on that one! Interestingly Scott starts his exploration of &#8216;launch&#8217; with &#8216;idea [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[21,65,67,73,164],"class_list":["post-732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-enterprise","category-entrepreneurship","tag-barriers-to-enterprise","tag-enterprise","tag-enterprise-coaching","tag-entrepreneurship","tag-professional-development","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}