{"id":73934,"date":"2017-11-25T01:42:30","date_gmt":"2017-11-25T09:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/welcome-to-the-startup-jungle"},"modified":"2017-12-02T12:02:01","modified_gmt":"2017-12-02T20:02:01","slug":"welcome-to-the-startup-jungle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/welcome-to-the-startup-jungle","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to the startup jungle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MTnAQ8ftGjc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Most new companies fail. What does it take for young entrepreneurs around the world to thrive in a startup hub?<\/p>\n<p>Click here to subscribe to The Economist on YouTube: <a href=\"http:\/\/econ.st\/2A1ieeK\">http:\/\/econ.st\/2A1ieeK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Over the past two decades start-ups have changed the world. Multi-billion dollar companies like Google, Facebook, and Uber have shown the transformative power of entrepreneurship.<\/p>\n<p>Today, innovators dream of their idea becoming the next big thing. But the odds are stacked against them. In America alone, 80% of startups will fail. In startup hubs around the world young entrepreneurs are desperate to prove they have what it takes to succeed. But what does it really take to survive?<\/p>\n<p>HoloMe is one of half a million companies to start up in Britain every year. The nations capital is a leading hub of innovation, inspiration, and creative energy. In London, and in cities world wide it\u2019s the age of the entrepreneur.<\/p>\n<p>Startups are championed by governments who see them as key to building a dynamic economy, but the competition is cut-throat. To succeed, you\u2019ve got to really believe in your product.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/welcome-to-the-startup-jungle\">Continue reading \u201cWelcome to the startup jungle\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most new companies fail. What does it take for young entrepreneurs around the world to thrive in a startup hub? Click here to subscribe to The Economist on YouTube: http:\/\/econ.st\/2A1ieeK Over the past two decades start-ups have changed the world. Multi-billion dollar companies like Google, Facebook, and Uber have shown the transformative power of entrepreneurship. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,1497],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73934"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74106,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73934\/revisions\/74106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}