{"id":1122,"date":"2018-05-20T14:46:31","date_gmt":"2018-05-20T14:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/?p=1122"},"modified":"2018-06-14T14:47:16","modified_gmt":"2018-06-14T14:47:16","slug":"yes-you-can-build-a-tech-company-without-being-tech-savvy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/yes-you-can-build-a-tech-company-without-being-tech-savvy\/","title":{"rendered":"Yes, You Can Build A Tech Company Without Being Tech Savvy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5VFrJCRHRa4\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s right! You don\u2019t need to be tech savvy to build a tech startup. In fact, success is not necessarily about technology. What you really need is the competitive advantage and valuable customer insights.<\/p>\n<p>In this video, I reveal why tech is a tool to make your startup vision come to fruition, 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 uncovers 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,<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2rf7nHo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <em>Building on Bedrock: What Sam Walton, Walt Disney, and Other Great Self-Made Entrepreneurs Can Teach Us About Building Valuable Companies (2018)<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\ufeff That\u2019s right! You don\u2019t need to be tech savvy to build a tech startup. In fact, success is not necessarily about technology. What you really need is the competitive advantage and valuable customer insights. In this video, I reveal why tech is a tool to make your startup vision come to fruition, and provide&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\/1122"}],"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=1122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}