{"id":2650,"date":"2026-07-28T16:30:26","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T16:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/2026\/07\/28\/hot-take-most-startups-dont-need-venture-capital-they-need-a-customer-and-90-focused\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T16:30:26","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T16:30:26","slug":"hot-take-most-startups-dont-need-venture-capital-they-need-a-customer-and-90-focused","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/2026\/07\/28\/hot-take-most-startups-dont-need-venture-capital-they-need-a-customer-and-90-focused\/","title":{"rendered":"Hot take: most startups don&#8217;t need venture capital. They need a customer and 90 focused&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hot take: most startups don&#039;t need venture capital. They need a customer and 90 focused days.<\/p>\n<p><small><em>Originally posted on <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/lakamsanik\/status\/2082141643348783589\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">X<\/a><\/em><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hot take: most startups don&#039;t need venture capital. They need a customer and 90 focused days. Originally posted on X<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-x-posts","wpcat-19-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2650\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}