{"id":162,"date":"2009-03-02T21:37:02","date_gmt":"2009-03-03T01:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.payne.org\/?p=162"},"modified":"2022-06-05T17:08:14","modified_gmt":"2022-06-05T17:08:14","slug":"investing-vs-speculating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/investing-vs-speculating\/","title":{"rendered":"Investing vs Speculating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brad Feld&#8217;s recent blog post on &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.feld.com\/wp\/archives\/2009\/03\/investment-vs-speculation.html\">Investment vs Speculation<\/a>&#8221; is recommended reading for every entrepreneur.<\/p>\n<p>Brad&#8217;s writing as an investor always learning now ways on <a href=\"https:\/\/joywallet.com\/article\/how-to-invest-usd-10000\">how to invest $10000<\/a>, but the points apply to entrepreneurs working on new opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>Is your idea an &#8220;investment&#8221;:&nbsp; do you see an opening to create real value?&nbsp; Or are you speculating, and betting that someone will acquire the future business for more than the financials suggest it is worth?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brad Feld&#8217;s recent blog post on &#8220;Investment vs Speculation&#8221; is recommended reading for every entrepreneur. Brad&#8217;s writing as an investor always learning now ways on how to invest $10000, but the points apply to entrepreneurs working on new opportunities. Is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/investing-vs-speculating\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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-162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":846,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions\/846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}