{"id":833,"date":"2020-12-18T20:40:31","date_gmt":"2020-12-19T04:40:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/?p=833"},"modified":"2020-12-18T20:40:31","modified_gmt":"2020-12-19T04:40:31","slug":"everything-i-needed-to-know-about-business-i-learned-from-surfing-3-start-small-surf-small-waves-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/18\/everything-i-needed-to-know-about-business-i-learned-from-surfing-3-start-small-surf-small-waves-first\/","title":{"rendered":"Everything I Needed to Know about Business I Learned from Surfing (#3): Start small. Surf small waves first."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Whenever you\u2019re falling you want to fall the shortest distance possible, so it doesn\u2019t hurt that much. When you go for a wave, you have to be prepared for what happens if you fall. This is true for waves of all sizes. Anyone who is successfully riding a wave has probably also wiped out on a wave of similar size.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In business, you should bet only what you can afford to lose, and you should start small. If you have two business ideas and one requires $1,000 to start and the other requires $100,000 to start, then pick the smaller one. It will hurt less if you fall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whenever you\u2019re falling you want to fall the shortest distance possible, so it doesn\u2019t hurt that much. When you go for a wave, you have to be prepared for what happens if you fall. This is true for waves of all sizes. Anyone who is successfully riding a wave has probably also wiped out on &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/18\/everything-i-needed-to-know-about-business-i-learned-from-surfing-3-start-small-surf-small-waves-first\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Everything I Needed to Know about Business I Learned from Surfing (#3): Start small. Surf small waves first.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=833"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":834,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833\/revisions\/834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}