{"id":454,"date":"2014-08-01T11:04:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-01T15:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/nguyen\/?p=91"},"modified":"2016-07-23T18:33:44","modified_gmt":"2016-07-23T18:33:44","slug":"hbr-ditch-the-startup-pitch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/hbr-ditch-the-startup-pitch\/","title":{"rendered":"HBR: Ditch the Startup Pitch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From my latest blog post on HBR.org:<\/p>\n<p>Pitching skills are widely considered fundamental to basic entrepreneurship, and this skill is taught, evaluated, and rewarded as part of almost any entrepreneurial education. The problem is that pitching is a waste of time and teaching this as a primary skill of entrepreneurship is misleading and sets the wrong priorities for aspiring entrepreneurs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.hbr.org\/2014\/08\/ditch-the-start-up-pitch\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"secondary button\">Read Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From my latest blog post on HBR.org:<br><br>\r\nPitching skills are widely considered fundamental to basic entrepreneurship, and this skill is taught, evaluated, and rewarded as part of almost any entrepreneurial education. The problem is that pitching is a waste of time and teaching this as a primary skill of entrepreneurship is misleading and sets the wrong priorities for aspiring entrepreneurs.","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454"}],"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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}