{"id":42,"date":"2010-11-11T14:27:53","date_gmt":"2010-11-11T21:27:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carmal.biz\/?p=42"},"modified":"2010-11-11T14:27:53","modified_gmt":"2010-11-11T21:27:53","slug":"all-nice-ways-to-say-no-but-there-is-hope-in-every-rejection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carmal.biz\/?p=42","title":{"rendered":"All nice ways to say NO &ndash; but there is hope in every rejection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I found a very educational,and CONSTRUCTIVE <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xconomy.com\/national\/2010\/11\/11\/no-i-will-not-fund-your-company\/?single_page=true\">article from Matt Shapiro<\/a> \u2013 where the funny part is the list of the many ways, nice and not so much, that you can use to say NO to startups looking for capital (well, I believe the list can&#160; be extended\u2026).<\/p>\n<p>The good part of the article is where he elaborates on what to do in order to learn from each experience (\u201c<em>to walk out of the room in a better position than you were when you came\u201d<\/em>) and he points that\u2026 there is always hope in any rejection!!<\/p>\n<p>I definitely recommend reading it before planning your pitches and presentations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found a very educational,and CONSTRUCTIVE article from Matt Shapiro \u2013 where the funny part is the list of the many ways, nice and not so much, that you can use to say NO to startups looking for capital (well, I believe the list can&#160; be extended\u2026). The good part of the article is where &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/carmal.biz\/?p=42\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,15],"tags":[17,18,16,38],"class_list":["post-42","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-landing","category-vc","tag-capital","tag-experience","tag-funding","tag-vc","nodate","item-wrap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carmal.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carmal.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carmal.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carmal.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carmal.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/carmal.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carmal.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carmal.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carmal.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}