{"id":855,"date":"2011-11-28T23:02:36","date_gmt":"2011-11-29T06:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spreadingscience.com\/?p=855"},"modified":"2011-11-28T23:02:38","modified_gmt":"2011-11-29T06:02:38","slug":"apps-allow-bootstrapping-of-a-livelihood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spreadingscience.com\/2011\/11\/28\/apps-allow-bootstrapping-of-a-livelihood\/","title":{"rendered":"Apps allow bootstrapping of a livelihood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.mikeswanson.com\/post\/12959053940\/juicybits\">Juicy Bits<\/a><br \/>[Via <span style=\"font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; color: #999999;\"><a style=\"text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: #336699;\" href=\"http:\/\/daringfireball.net\/\">Daring Fireball<\/a><\/span>]<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Fun story by Mike Swanson, on how he left his job as a developer evangelist at Microsoft to be a full-time iOS app developer.<\/p>\n<div>[<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.mikeswanson.com\/post\/12959053940\/juicybits\">More<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em>A major part of the App economy is the ability to start small and grow into a full time job. Here is a great example of someone taking their avocation and making it their vocation.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>This is a great example.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Juicy Bits[Via Daring Fireball] Fun story by Mike Swanson, on how he left his job as a developer evangelist at Microsoft to be a full-time iOS app developer. [More] A major part of the App economy is the ability to start small and grow into a full time job. Here is a great example of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spreadingscience.com\/2011\/11\/28\/apps-allow-bootstrapping-of-a-livelihood\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Apps allow bootstrapping of a livelihood<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-21st-century-company"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pe2yp-dN","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":15,"url":"https:\/\/www.spreadingscience.com\/2008\/03\/03\/gsp-liveblogfacebook\/","url_meta":{"origin":855,"position":0},"title":"GSP LiveBlog:Facebook","date":"March 3, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Here are slides for Charlene Li's talk this morning (The Future of Social Networks) when I had no power for my computer. 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