{"id":40,"date":"2007-04-01T11:19:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-01T11:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.tola.me.uk\/blog\/2007\/04\/01\/starting-a-business\/"},"modified":"2007-04-01T11:19:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-01T11:19:00","slug":"starting_a_business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/2007\/04\/01\/starting_a_business\/","title":{"rendered":"Starting a Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My plans for this summer have changed many times now. Due to my exam timetable I have a <em>four month<\/em> summer break and I&#039;ve been trying to think of ways to use this valuable time.<\/p>\n<p>I&#039;ve had interesting conversations with IBM, a chat with someone from Sun, three interviews with Google, missed the deadline for the Google Summer of Code while waiting to hear about a summer placement. But still, I have nothing to fill my summer.<\/p>\n<p>I&#039;ve decided that I&#039;m going to take the opportunity to start implementing some ideas I&#039;ve been working on for three years, I&#039;m going to start a business.<\/p>\n<p>OK, so I&#039;ve done this kind of thing a few times before. I&#039;ve even ended up as part of a limited liability company building web applications and doing installations in London. But it&#039;s always just been moonlighting, a job on the side. This time it&#039;s all my own ideas, it&#039;s ambitious and I&#039;m doing it my way.<\/p>\n<p>I&#039;m currently working on a business plan and cash flow forecast so that I can apply for some funding from my university.<\/p>\n<p>Introducing <a href=\"http:\/\/krellian.com\">Krellian<\/a>. Watch this space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My plans for this summer have changed many times now. Due to my exam timetable I have a four month summer break and I&#039;ve been trying to think of ways to use this valuable time. I&#039;ve had interesting conversations with IBM, a chat with someone from Sun, three interviews with Google, missed the deadline for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/2007\/04\/01\/starting_a_business\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Starting a Business<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}