{"id":1971,"date":"2010-10-24T11:27:01","date_gmt":"2010-10-24T18:27:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.12sided.com\/blog\/?p=1971"},"modified":"2010-10-24T11:27:01","modified_gmt":"2010-10-24T18:27:01","slug":"be-willing-to-throw-it-all-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/?p=1971","title":{"rendered":"Be willing to throw it all away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is this a name dropping post? <\/p>\n<p>Check out this instructive video of Mike Maples, Jr. speaking at the Founder Institute. It is worth the time.<\/p>\n<p>Mike Maples was a co-founder of Motive, where I spent 5 very productive years. Talk of &#8220;thunder lizards&#8221; is nothing new. His ability to communicate a technical vision is pretty amazing. Internally and externally, he can fire people up. I knew that when he left to head back to California that he would be one to watch. His track record for the last 5 years has been impressive: Digg, Twitter, Chegg, Spiceworks and a dozen others. Lately, Maples seems to be everywhere. From <a href=\"http:\/\/steveblank.com\/2010\/04\/29\/teaching-customer-development-and-the-lean-startup-%E2%80%93-topological-homeomorphism\/\">lean startup lectures at Cal<\/a> to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fourhourworkweek.com\/\">4 Hour Work Week by Timothy Ferriss<\/a> and here he is again below. Thanks Mike!<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"400\" height=\"225\"><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=16098382&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=1&amp;color=&amp;fullscreen=1&amp;autoplay=0&amp;loop=0\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/16098382\">Mike Maples at the Founder Showcase<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/user2779659\">Adeo Ressi<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>TechCrunch <a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2010\/10\/22\/mike-maples-you-have-to-be-willing-to-throw-it-all-away-video\/\">Mike Maples: \u201cYou Have to Be Willing to Throw it all away\u201d [Video]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is this a name dropping post? Check out this instructive video of Mike Maples, Jr. speaking at the Founder Institute. It is worth the time. Mike Maples was a co-founder of Motive, where I spent 5 very productive years. Talk of &#8220;thunder lizards&#8221; is nothing new. His ability to communicate&#8230;<\/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":""},"categories":[8,11],"tags":[128,133,223,401,334],"class_list":["post-1971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reads","category-thoughts","tag-floodgate-fund","tag-founder-institute","tag-mike-maples","tag-reads","tag-techcrunch"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1971\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}