{"id":3547,"date":"2010-02-22T08:43:14","date_gmt":"2010-02-22T13:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=3547"},"modified":"2010-02-22T08:43:14","modified_gmt":"2010-02-22T13:43:14","slug":"repostbuchheits-lucky-streak-as-an-angel-and-a-founder-venturebeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2010\/02\/22\/repostbuchheits-lucky-streak-as-an-angel-and-a-founder-venturebeat\/","title":{"rendered":"rePost::Buchheit\u2019s lucky streak as an angel (and a founder) &#124; VentureBeat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Note to self and friends::<br \/>\nFor WD start with simple then iterate. Do the simplest thing possible!!!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Mint founder Aaron Patzer credited Buchheit with helping him think about the appropriate software architecture for his consumer finance site.<br \/>\n\u201cHe pushed us to prioritize performance and search speed and helped us to find ways to scale Mint successfully,\u201d Patzer said.<br \/>\nreMail chief executive Gabor Cselle said Buchheit helped him hone his product down to its core essentials. Buchheit himself is a strong advocate of keeping products simple and focused.<br \/>\n\u201cPaul Buchheit and Sanjeev Singh endured my slide deck on our multi-step plan for global email domination, and pointed out that instead I should build something small, simple, and useful. It worked,\u201d Cselle wrote in a blog post announcing the reMail acquisition yesterday.<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/deals.venturebeat.com\/2010\/02\/18\/buchheit\/\">Buchheit\u2019s lucky streak as an angel (and a founder) | VentureBeat<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Note to self and friends:: For WD start with simple then iterate. Do the simplest thing possible!!! Mint founder Aaron Patzer credited Buchheit with helping him think about the appropriate software architecture for his consumer finance site. \u201cHe pushed us to prioritize performance and search speed and helped us to find ways to scale Mint &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2010\/02\/22\/repostbuchheits-lucky-streak-as-an-angel-and-a-founder-venturebeat\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;rePost::Buchheit\u2019s lucky streak as an angel (and a founder) &#124; VentureBeat&#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":[2,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advice-for-the-day","category-reposts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3547","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=3547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}