{"id":1054,"date":"2018-01-20T19:29:51","date_gmt":"2018-01-20T19:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/?p=1054"},"modified":"2018-05-31T15:02:10","modified_gmt":"2018-05-31T15:02:10","slug":"why-your-startup-doesnt-need-an-investor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/why-your-startup-doesnt-need-an-investor\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Your Startup Doesn&#8217;t Need An Investor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UjBwLE5H-Cs\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nDespite what we read in the media and the stories we hear about Silicon Valley, money is last the thing an entrepreneur needs. Rather, money is the fill in\u2014money is what you need after you have already pulled together all that&#8217;s already available for you to start your enterprise.<\/p>\n<p>In this video, I discuss why your startup doesn&#8217;t need an investor, and provide alternative strategies for creating profitable companies through the bedrock mindset. For more on this topic, check out <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2rfhDiU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>From The Ground Up<\/em><\/a>, my new show that\u00a0uncovers the not-so-secret strategies used by the owners of bedrock businesses.<\/p>\n<p>You can also learn more about topics like this in my latest book, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2rf7nHo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Building on Bedrock: What Sam Walton, Walt Disney, and Other Great Self-Made Entrepreneurs Can Teach Us About Building Valuable Companies (2018)<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Despite what we read in the media and the stories we hear about Silicon Valley, money is last the thing an entrepreneur needs. Rather, money is the fill in\u2014money is what you need after you have already pulled together all that&#8217;s already available for you to start your enterprise. In this video, I discuss why&hellip;","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1054"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1054\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}