{"id":7697,"date":"2019-08-24T06:46:40","date_gmt":"2019-08-24T12:46:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=7697"},"modified":"2019-08-29T12:28:48","modified_gmt":"2019-08-29T18:28:48","slug":"idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=7697","title":{"rendered":"Idea < -- > App"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/photos\/2019\/08\/IMG_2302b.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/photos\/2019\/08\/IMG_2302b.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/us\/app\/ride-spot-by-peopleforbikes\/id964666706\">Eric Lynn<\/a> and I shared experiences with 22 entrepreneurs at a recent Friday lunch. <\/p>\n<p>The setting, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.letoile-restaurant.com\/\">L&#8217;Etoile&#8217;s<\/a> (Graze) private room was ideal: quiet and spacious. <\/p>\n<p>The discussion was quite enjoyable if not illuminating. <\/p>\n<p>Topics included tech platforms, money, brand, on boarding, user experience, ghosting, minimum viable product, out or insourcing, choosing a tech partner along with legal, tax and IP experiences. <\/p>\n<p>I mentioned <a href=\"https:\/\/biblehub.com\/ecclesiastes\/11-4.htm\">Ecclesiastes 11:4<\/a>: [1]<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Whoever watches the wind will not plant; whoever looks at the clouds will not reap. <\/p>\n<p><em>(If you wait for perfect conditions, you will never get anything done.)<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Appropriately 4 of the 22 participants simply showed up, rather than queue through the registration\/waitlist process.  It is good to show up.<\/p>\n<p>We organized the lunch as part of the 10th <a href=\"http:\/\/forwardfest.org\/event\/idea-app\">Forward Fest<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Explore L&#8217;Etoile&#8217;s Capitol square space in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amuzapp.com\">amuz<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/photos\/2019\/08\/letoile_restaurant__madison_amuz_app.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/photos\/2019\/08\/letoile_restaurant__madison_amuz_app.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>[1] Bethel&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bethel-madison.org\/about-us\/meet-our-pastors\/pastor-mike-brown-2\/\">Mike Brown<\/a> referenced this passage during a recent message on uncertainty.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/photos\/2019\/08\/ecclesiastes_11_4_my_verse.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/photos\/2019\/08\/ecclesiastes_11_4_my_verse.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/us\/app\/my-verse\/id979891531\">My Verse app<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eric Lynn and I shared experiences with 22 entrepreneurs at a recent Friday lunch. The setting, L&#8217;Etoile&#8217;s (Graze) private room was ideal: quiet and spacious. The discussion was quite enjoyable if not illuminating. Topics included tech platforms, money, brand, on boarding, user experience, ghosting, minimum viable product, out or insourcing, choosing a tech partner along [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7697"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7697"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7710,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7697\/revisions\/7710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}