{"id":913,"date":"2014-02-11T19:04:36","date_gmt":"2014-02-12T03:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onvural.net\/melih\/thoughts\/?p=913"},"modified":"2014-02-11T19:04:36","modified_gmt":"2014-02-12T03:04:36","slug":"applied-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onvural.net\/melih\/thoughts\/2014\/02\/11\/applied-learning\/","title":{"rendered":"Applied learning"},"content":{"rendered":"

As I’m in the car a bit more than I was in the past, I’ve been getting back into the swing of listening to podcasts. One of my favorites is Startups for the rest of us<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I went to their conference in Las Vegas back in 2012, and I’ve worked my way through a fat chunk of their back log as well. I’ve shared it with a ton of folks, and all of a sudden one of the folks I shared it with is making a go of it.<\/p>\n

I’m not going to say who or what yet, but I’m really quite excited to see what happens as he tries to bootstrap his way towards a SaaS business. The customer is already there. The LTV is already vetted. It’s really just about execution.<\/p>\n

As soon as I can, I’m going to update how well it worked, but getting to apply the learning of all of the listening is going to be a fun experiment.<\/p>\n

Good luck <name redacted>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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