{"id":2738,"date":"2026-08-24T12:30:38","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T12:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/2026\/08\/24\/venture-capital-is-rocket-fuel-most-businesses-are-not-rockets-and-fuel-without-a-roc\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T12:30:38","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T12:30:38","slug":"venture-capital-is-rocket-fuel-most-businesses-are-not-rockets-and-fuel-without-a-roc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/2026\/08\/24\/venture-capital-is-rocket-fuel-most-businesses-are-not-rockets-and-fuel-without-a-roc\/","title":{"rendered":"Venture capital is rocket fuel. Most businesses are not rockets, and fuel without a roc&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Venture capital is rocket fuel. Most businesses are not rockets, and fuel without a rocket is just a fire.<\/p>\n<p><small><em>Originally posted on <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/lakamsanik\/status\/2091865766710968590\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">X<\/a><\/em><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Venture capital is rocket fuel. Most businesses are not rockets, and fuel without a rocket is just a fire. Originally&#8230;<\/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-2738","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\/2738","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=2738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}