{"id":1155,"date":"2009-03-01T23:30:58","date_gmt":"2009-03-02T04:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/2009\/03\/01\/learned-today-joel-spolskys-secret-to-start-up-success-careful-morale-management\/"},"modified":"2009-03-01T23:30:58","modified_gmt":"2009-03-02T04:30:58","slug":"learned-today-joel-spolskys-secret-to-start-up-success-careful-morale-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2009\/03\/01\/learned-today-joel-spolskys-secret-to-start-up-success-careful-morale-management\/","title":{"rendered":"Learned Today-Joel Spolsky&#039;s Secret to Start-up Success? Careful Morale Management"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Paul Graham, Jessica&#8217;s husband and partner in Y Combinator, has tackled this subject on his website. <strong>&#8220;The biggest reason founders stop working on their start-ups is that they get demoralized,&#8221;<\/strong> he writes. &#8220;Some people seem to have unlimited self-generated morale. These almost always succeed. At the other extreme, there are people who seem to have no ability to do this; they need a boss to motivate them. In the middle there is a large band of people who have some, but not unlimited, ability to motivate themselves. These can succeed through careful morale management (and some luck).&#8221;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.inc.com\/magazine\/20090301\/how-hard-could-it-be-start-up-static.html\">Joel Spolsky&#8217;s Secret to Start-up Success? Careful Morale Management<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Graham, Jessica&#8217;s husband and partner in Y Combinator, has tackled this subject on his website. &#8220;The biggest reason founders stop working on their start-ups is that they get demoralized,&#8221; he writes. &#8220;Some people seem to have unlimited self-generated morale. These almost always succeed. At the other extreme, there are people who seem to have &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2009\/03\/01\/learned-today-joel-spolskys-secret-to-start-up-success-careful-morale-management\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Learned Today-Joel Spolsky&#039;s Secret to Start-up Success? Careful Morale Management&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-learned-today"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}