{"id":753,"date":"2016-05-01T23:59:39","date_gmt":"2016-05-01T23:59:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/?p=753"},"modified":"2016-11-23T17:59:54","modified_gmt":"2016-11-23T17:59:54","slug":"leading-a-startup-in-stage-4-self-sustainability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/leading-a-startup-in-stage-4-self-sustainability\/","title":{"rendered":"Leading a Startup in Stage 4: Self-Sustainability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many entrepreneurs and stage-three top executives feel no pressure to move on to stage four of enterprise maturity &#8212; self-sustainability through innovation. They are enjoying great success; the existing business is thriving, and most stakeholders are content. Over time, however, customer preferences change, the terms of competition shift, and today\u2019s leading businesses become tomorrow\u2019s also-rans. Unless the enterprise can renew itself through innovation, it too will eventually wither and die.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.entrepreneur.com\/article\/270346\" class=\"secondary button\">Read Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Many entrepreneurs and stage-three top executives feel no pressure to move on to stage four of enterprise maturity &#8212; self-sustainability through innovation. They are enjoying great success; the existing business is thriving, and most stakeholders are content. Over time, however, customer preferences change, the terms of competition shift, and today\u2019s leading businesses become tomorrow\u2019s also-rans. Unless the enterprise can renew itself through innovation, it too will eventually wither and die.","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\/753"}],"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=753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}