{"id":668,"date":"2014-01-30T20:37:12","date_gmt":"2014-01-31T03:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shannonmarcom.com\/blog\/?p=668"},"modified":"2014-01-30T20:40:39","modified_gmt":"2014-01-31T03:40:39","slug":"piece-builtincolorado-com-posted-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shannonmarcom.com\/blog\/piece-builtincolorado-com-posted-today\/","title":{"rendered":"My first piece for BuiltInColorado.com posted today . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"

. . . a profile piece on Boulder-based SparkFun.<\/p>\n

\"SparkFun<\/a>

A SparkFun team member takes inventory<\/p><\/div>\n

As a freshman in college,\u00a0SparkFun<\/a>\u00a0founder and CEO Nathan Seidle set a goal: to hold a patent by the time he was 30. He founded his company in 2003, while still an undergraduate studying electrical engineering. He\u2019s grown it to employ more than 150, generate just over $30 million in revenue annually and offer more than 2,300 products to help its customers build a prototype or create a project.<\/p>\n

Read the rest here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As he explained in a talk at TEDxBoulder in August 2012, regardless of patents, \u201cIf your idea can be sold, it will be. There are no local markets. It\u2019s just as easy to sell something in Colorado as it is in South Africa.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,411],"tags":[174,431,427,433,432,428,383,430,429],"class_list":["post-668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-writing-samples","tag-boulder","tag-digital","tag-electronics","tag-entrepreneur","tag-maker","tag-open-source-hardware","tag-sparkfun","tag-start-up","tag-startup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannonmarcom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannonmarcom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannonmarcom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannonmarcom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannonmarcom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=668"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/shannonmarcom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":673,"href":"http:\/\/shannonmarcom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668\/revisions\/673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannonmarcom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannonmarcom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannonmarcom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}