{"id":56,"date":"2006-02-18T15:14:11","date_gmt":"2006-02-18T15:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/musings\/2006\/02\/18\/new_gig\/"},"modified":"2006-02-18T15:14:11","modified_gmt":"2006-02-18T15:14:11","slug":"new_gig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/musings\/archives\/new_gig.shtml","title":{"rendered":"New Gig"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These last few months I&#8217;ve been trying to work on my next big thing.  So somehow, I&#8217;ve begun raising money for my very own venture fund.  How funny the world works.  My venture fund is called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.neuronventures.com\">Neuron Ventures<\/a>.<br \/>\nGetting into my next big thing, after almost 9 years at Yahoo! and after taking about a year off to figure out my life, can bring up some very interesting thoughts.<br \/>\nYou get into a routine, and now you need to break out of that.  I think about new ways to juggle training and spending time with my daughter with the demands of managing a venture fund.  I think about time for reflection and being, and not being on an accelerated treadmill everyday and how to make time for myself despite having others who demand my time.  I also think about the future where I don&#8217;t want to grow old without anything to do; I like the fact that there is potentially something new I can hang my hat on.  I do like learning and doing something I&#8217;ve never done before, and certainly creating a venture fund is definitely an educational experience.<br \/>\nThere is also the social aspect; I believe I&#8217;ve been really fortunate to have met some fantastic people in the venture community who have shown support and have offered help.  It&#8217;s nice to know that the poor reputation of venture capitalists is not reflected in the people I&#8217;ve encountered.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll give it my best shot.  If it doesn&#8217;t work out, then it&#8217;s back to  finding something else&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These last few months I&#8217;ve been trying to work on my next big thing. So somehow, I&#8217;ve begun raising money for my very own venture fund. How funny the world works. My venture fund is called Neuron Ventures. Getting into my next big thing, after almost 9 years at Yahoo! and after taking about a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}