{"id":949,"date":"2009-02-14T16:38:25","date_gmt":"2009-02-14T23:38:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/14\/the-problem-with-starting-a-company\/"},"modified":"2009-02-14T16:38:25","modified_gmt":"2009-02-14T23:38:25","slug":"the-problem-with-starting-a-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/the-problem-with-starting-a-company\/","title":{"rendered":"The problem with starting a company"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is that you forget to build an actual circle of friends around you. Friends that you can get a drink with after work, friends who want to have coffee with you on weekends. I want friends to have a chat with.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter isn&#8217;t friends. Facebook isn&#8217;t friends. Flickr isn&#8217;t friends.<\/p>\n<p>After nearly 2 years in this city, I don&#8217;t think London is a very good for friendships, makes it difficult to get up and see and meet people easily. Most of my friends don&#8217;t live here.<\/p>\n<p>Matt is gone for 2 weeks to New Zealand to talk about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webstock.org.nz\/09\/speakers\/\">fabulous things he does<\/a> , and K is touring Europe showing off her great work. I&#8217;m here alone.<\/p>\n<p>I guess I&#8217;ll work some more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is that you forget to build an actual circle of friends around you. Friends that you can get a drink with after work, friends who want to have coffee with you on weekends. I want friends to have a chat with. Twitter isn&#8217;t friends. Facebook isn&#8217;t friends. Flickr isn&#8217;t friends. After nearly 2 years in&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/the-problem-with-starting-a-company\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The problem with starting a company<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughts","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p41XhY-fj","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}