{"id":4001,"date":"2010-04-07T03:16:16","date_gmt":"2010-04-07T08:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=4001"},"modified":"2010-04-07T03:16:16","modified_gmt":"2010-04-07T08:16:16","slug":"quote-invent-the-future-why-you-should-never-listen-to-your-customers-blog-maverick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2010\/04\/07\/quote-invent-the-future-why-you-should-never-listen-to-your-customers-blog-maverick\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote :: Invent the future &#8230; ::Why You Should NEVER Listen to Your Customers \u00ab blog maverick"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Instead, part of every entrepreneurs job is to invent the future. I also call it \u201ckicking your own ass\u201d. Someone is out there looking to put you out of business. Someone is always out there who thinks they have a better idea than you have. A better solution than you have. A better or more efficient product than you have.  If there is someone out there who can \u201ckick your ass\u201d by doing it better, its part of your job as the owner of the company to stay ahead of them and \u201ckick your own ass\u201d before someone else does.<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/blogmaverick.com\/2010\/04\/06\/why-you-should-never-listen-to-your-customers\/\">Why You Should NEVER Listen to Your Customers \u00ab blog maverick<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Instead, part of every entrepreneurs job is to invent the future. I also call it \u201ckicking your own ass\u201d. Someone is out there looking to put you out of business. Someone is always out there who thinks they have a better idea than you have. A better solution than you have. A better or more &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2010\/04\/07\/quote-invent-the-future-why-you-should-never-listen-to-your-customers-blog-maverick\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Quote :: Invent the future &#8230; ::Why You Should NEVER Listen to Your Customers \u00ab blog maverick&#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":[75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quote"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4001","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=4001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4001\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}