{"id":282,"date":"2015-04-09T13:37:05","date_gmt":"2015-04-09T17:37:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ejameswhite.com\/?p=282"},"modified":"2015-04-11T10:16:36","modified_gmt":"2015-04-11T14:16:36","slug":"hanging-out-in-dc-at-disruption-corp-with-entrepreneurs-and-investors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ejameswhite.com\/?p=282","title":{"rendered":"Hanging Out in DC at Disruption Corp with Entrepreneurs and Investors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was invited to attend an event in D.C. at a company called Disruption, run by Paul Singh.<\/p>\n<p>This was a great event. \u00a0Investors answered questions on stage and 10 startups pitched in a competition to be one of the four startups to compete for $36,000 in June against other Southeast startups.<\/p>\n<p>I got to meet Paul Singh, which is someone I have wanted to meet for a while. \u00a0Being relatively close to DC is a good thing for me! \u00a0I&#8217;m not in Silicon Valley, but it is good to be close to a city that is beginning to have a little startup scene.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was invited to attend an event in D.C. at a company called Disruption, run by Paul Singh. This was a great event. \u00a0Investors answered questions on stage and 10 startups pitched in a competition to be one of the four startups to compete for $36,000 in June against other Southeast startups. I got to meet Paul Singh, which is someone I have wanted to meet for a while. \u00a0Being<\/p>\n<div class=\"belowpost\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ejameswhite.com\/?p=282\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":281,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entrepreneur"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ejameswhite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_0015.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4FxFG-4y","post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ejameswhite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ejameswhite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ejameswhite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ejameswhite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ejameswhite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=282"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.ejameswhite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":288,"href":"https:\/\/www.ejameswhite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions\/288"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ejameswhite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ejameswhite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ejameswhite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ejameswhite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}