{"id":61,"date":"2000-10-12T00:01:02","date_gmt":"2000-10-12T00:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/?p=61"},"modified":"2000-10-12T00:01:02","modified_gmt":"2000-10-12T00:01:02","slug":"20001012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/2000\/10\/12\/20001012\/","title":{"rendered":"2000\/10\/12"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>Every once in a while some venture capitalist feels a need to give you some money. Usually it&#8217;s because he has a nasty business idea and he needs to bribe people to play along for a while.<\/P> <P>For example, when Drugstore.com started up, they offered everyone $10 worth of free stuff. I used my $10 on Mach 3 razor blades, which last forever in the closet and are small and easy to store.<\/P> <P>Now&nbsp;<A href=\"http:\/\/www.urbanfetch.com\">UrbanFetch<\/A><\/A> is going out of business, and they&#8217;re dumping all their inventory at bargain basement prices. This time I bought about $70 worth of Mach 3 razor blades, which last forever in the closet and are easy to store.<\/P> <P>The thing about Mach 3 razor blades is that they&#8217;re quite expensive, and <EM>never<\/EM> on sale. But when you find a stupid venture capitalist trying to give you stuff, if you can get him to give you Mach 3 razor blades, that&#8217;s basically as good as cash (in small quantities).<\/P> <P>Razor blades. The currency of the New Economy.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every once in a while some venture capitalist feels a need to give you some money. Usually it&#8217;s because he has a nasty business idea and he&hellip; <span class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/2000\/10\/12\/20001012\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;2000\/10\/12&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s83KNI-20001012","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}