{"id":12159,"date":"2009-12-07T12:15:42","date_gmt":"2009-12-07T20:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=12159"},"modified":"2009-12-07T15:39:57","modified_gmt":"2009-12-07T23:39:57","slug":"secrets-of-a-skateboarding-entrepreneur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=12159","title":{"rendered":"Secrets Of A Skateboarding Entrepreneur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/oMSb1207_ph_345.jpg.png\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/oMSb1207_ph_345.jpg.png','popup','width=345,height=246,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/oMSb1207_ph_345.jpg-tm.jpg\" height=\"142\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Omsb1207 Ph 345.Jpg\" \/><\/a>Nope. It&#8217;s not another story on <strong>Tony Hawk<\/strong>. This <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.investors.com\/NewsAndAnalysis\/Article.aspx?id=514400\" target=\"_blank\">Investors.com<\/a><\/strong> interview is with former pro skateboarder <strong>Jeff Thompson<\/strong> about how he used all the lessons he learned in skateboarding to build a successful internet service provider business in Rhode Island.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>To compete and gain sponsors, I had to skate four to six hours a day. It took passion. When you don&#8217;t feel like practicing, you can&#8217;t say no. You need that same dedication with an emerging technology to get from zero revenue to the Nasdaq. . . If you worry too much about the whole routine as you drop into your first ramp, it can add to your anxiety. It&#8217;s better to focus on one trick at a time and do it right.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So that&#8217;s the secret. . .<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.investors.com\/NewsAndAnalysis\/Article.aspx?id=514400\" target=\"_blank\">Investors.com<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nope. It&#8217;s not another story on Tony Hawk. This Investors.com interview is with former pro skateboarder Jeff Thompson about how he used all the lessons he learned in skateboarding to build a successful internet service provider business in Rhode Island. To compete and gain sponsors, I had to skate four to six hours a day. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12159"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12159"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12176,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12159\/revisions\/12176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}