{"id":551,"date":"2016-05-01T17:31:09","date_gmt":"2016-05-01T17:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/?p=551"},"modified":"2016-07-23T18:05:17","modified_gmt":"2016-07-23T18:05:17","slug":"leading-a-startup-in-stage-2-operational-validation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/leading-a-startup-in-stage-2-operational-validation\/","title":{"rendered":"Leading a Startup in Stage 2: Operational Validation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By the end of stage one of enterprise maturity, you have refined your original idea, prototyped your product or service, and found real customers for that initial offering. You\u2019ve accomplished the principal task of the first stage &#8212; customer validation.<\/p>\n<p>This week&#8217;s post on the Entrepreneur website takes the reader in stage two, your principal task is operational validation &#8212; getting up and running as a rudimentary business.By the end of stage one of enterprise maturity, you have refined your original idea, prototyped your product or service, and found real customers for that initial offering. You\u2019ve accomplished the principal task of the first stage &#8212; customer validation.<\/p>\n<p>This week&#8217;s post on the Entrepreneur website takes the reader in stage two, your principal task is operational validation &#8212; getting up and running as a rudimentary business.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.entrepreneur.com\/article\/270343\" class=\"secondary button\">Read Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By the end of stage one of enterprise maturity, you have refined your original idea, prototyped your product or service, and found real customers for that initial offering. You\u2019ve accomplished the principal task of the first stage &#8212; customer validation.\r\n<br><br>\r\nThis week&#8217;s post on the Entrepreneur website takes the reader in stage two, your principal task is operational validation &#8212; getting up and running as a rudimentary business.","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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\/551"}],"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=551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}