{"id":138,"date":"2012-05-19T12:08:23","date_gmt":"2012-05-19T15:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/missionalshift\/?p=138"},"modified":"2012-05-19T12:09:45","modified_gmt":"2012-05-19T15:09:45","slug":"missional-startups-default-state-is-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/missionalshift\/2012\/05\/missional-startups-default-state-is-failure\/","title":{"rendered":"Missional Startups: Default State Is Failure"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

\"'SUCCESSFULLFAILURE<\/a><\/p>\n

Chris Dixon, founder of Hunch<\/a> and SiteAdvisor<\/a>, writes<\/a>, <\/p>\n

If you are starting a company and wondering why nothing good seems to happen unless you force it to happen, that\u2019s because the world wants to stay the way it is. Customers, partners, and most of all incumbents don\u2019t want to think hard, try new things, or change in any way. The world is lazy and just wants to keep doing what it\u2019s doing. \u2026<\/p>\n

First-time entrepreneurs often fail to realize that when you build something new, no one will care. People won\u2019t use your product, won\u2019t tell people about it, and almost certainly won\u2019t pay for it. (There are exceptions \u2014 but these are as rare as winning the lottery.) This doesn\u2019t mean you\u2019ll fail. It means you need to be smarter and harder working, and surround yourself with extraordinary people.<\/p>\n

The default state of the world is to stay the way it is, which means the default state of a startup is failure.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What do you think? Is approaching a missional community like a tech startup helpful? Or not?<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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