{"id":639957,"date":"2024-10-10T14:00:19","date_gmt":"2024-10-10T18:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=639957"},"modified":"2024-10-10T14:04:14","modified_gmt":"2024-10-10T18:04:14","slug":"never-trust-anyone-who-isnt-an-entrepreneur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/10\/never-trust-anyone-who-isnt-an-entrepreneur\/","title":{"rendered":"Never trust anyone who *isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t* an entrepreneur"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So assuming that you have a full-time job, are employed by a corporation or company\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 I think about it is almost 99.9% office politics, artificial status gains etc. you are essentially divorced from reality; if you <em>look<\/em> good, you will get a raise and be rewarded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> For anyone who has never had to start their own business, from scratch\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 You will have zero idea how real economics works.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> For example as an entrepreneur, to even earn 100 bucks or 1000 bucks, is an insane amount of work risk and reward. Assuming the base level salary is $80,000 a year for a highly qualified individual, do you know how hard that would be to earn if you actually had to sell your own services, and products to the market directly? Without a venture capital raising moneys?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> I suppose my whole critique about the whole venture capital seed fund raising is once again, I think about 100% of it is show and looks, rather than true substance?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t trust academics<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As an academic, your job is to look good, sound profound. An academic who never had to pay their own rent through entrepreneurship, will have zero idea how real reality works.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So assuming that you have a full-time job, are employed by a corporation or company\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 I think about it is almost 99.9% office politics, artificial status gains etc. you are essentially divorced from reality; \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_ek_photo_artist_note":"","_ek_photo_thesis":"","_ek_photo_camera":"","_ek_photo_place":"","_ek_photo_human_moment":"","_ek_photo_sequence":"","_ek_photo_question":"","_ek_photo_canonical_claim":"","_ek_photo_ai_summary":"","_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-639957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=639957"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":639968,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639957\/revisions\/639968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}