{"id":4017,"date":"2010-04-08T04:58:44","date_gmt":"2010-04-08T09:58:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=4017"},"modified":"2010-04-08T04:58:44","modified_gmt":"2010-04-08T09:58:44","slug":"repost-the-case-for-the-fat-start-up-ben-horowitz-voices-allthingsd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2010\/04\/08\/repost-the-case-for-the-fat-start-up-ben-horowitz-voices-allthingsd\/","title":{"rendered":"rePost :: The Case for the Fat Start-Up &#124; Ben Horowitz &#124; Voices &#124; AllThingsD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every start-up is in a furious race against time. The start-up must find the product-market fit that leads to a great business and substantially take the market before running out of cash. As a result, the top two priorities are always to:<br \/>\n1. Find the product that 1,000 enterprise or 50 million consumers want to buy and grab those customers before your competitors do.<br \/>\n2. Raise enough cash and spend it intelligently so that you don\u2019t go broke along the way.<br \/>\nClearly, you can\u2019t succeed if you don\u2019t achieve both priority No. 1 and priority No. 2. So why is taking the market more important than not running out of cash? Because the only thing worse for an entrepreneur than start-up hell (bankruptcy) is start-up purgatory.<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/voices.allthingsd.com\/20100317\/the-case-for-the-fat-startup\/\">The Case for the Fat Start-Up | Ben Horowitz | Voices | AllThingsD<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every start-up is in a furious race against time. The start-up must find the product-market fit that leads to a great business and substantially take the market before running out of cash. As a result, the top two priorities are always to: 1. Find the product that 1,000 enterprise or 50 million consumers want to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2010\/04\/08\/repost-the-case-for-the-fat-start-up-ben-horowitz-voices-allthingsd\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;rePost :: The Case for the Fat Start-Up &#124; Ben Horowitz &#124; Voices &#124; AllThingsD&#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":[79,94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reposts","category-startups"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4017","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=4017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}