{"id":526,"date":"2006-01-05T13:49:56","date_gmt":"2006-01-05T13:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ivchristiancenter.com\/forget_having_a\/"},"modified":"2006-01-05T13:49:56","modified_gmt":"2006-01-05T13:49:56","slug":"forget_having_a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ivchristiancenter.com\/es\/forget_having_a\/","title":{"rendered":"Forget Having A Job Make Something Valuable"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading Time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minute<\/span><\/span>

File this under, For Entrepreneurs Only<\/em>. Loved this quote from Paul Graham, a venture capitalist, entrepreneur type guy:<\/p>\n

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At the moment, even the smartest students leave school thinking they have to get a job. Actually what they need to do is make something valuable. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This is part a much larger article, What Business Can Learn From Open Source<\/em><\/a>, basically trying to answer the question: Why do people who produce open source software, (I.e. software that is in the public domain. That doesn’t have copyrights attached to it, for which no money exchanges hands. A good example is Firefox<\/a> a really good, free, fast, web browser I’m in fact using to type this entry.<\/em>) produce better products than paid employees of a large company? <\/p>\n

I guess his answer is that love triumphs over money. One of the reasons there aren’t more entrepreneurs in the world is because most people want security. They’d like to have the rewards associated with risk but they don’t want to have to experience the pain thereof. Most people end up keeping their talents buried in the ground for fear of loosing them. Most spend their lives in slavery to mammon rather than take the risk of serving God. Most would rather stay in Ur than have to live by faith. There are, no doubt, thousands of Pastors who’d like to have Joel Osteen’s job, but there aren’t many guys willing to endure what John Osteen, his father, had to go through to get Joel to where he is today.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reading Time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minute<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Reading Time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minute<\/span><\/span>File this under, For Entrepreneurs Only. Loved this quote from Paul Graham, a venture capitalist, entrepreneur type guy: At the moment, even the smartest students leave school thinking they have to get a job. Actually what they need to do is make something valuable. This is part a much larger article, What Business Can Learn […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t