{"id":1652,"date":"2016-02-13T23:56:56","date_gmt":"2016-02-13T23:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/?p=1652"},"modified":"2016-02-13T23:56:56","modified_gmt":"2016-02-13T23:56:56","slug":"the-irony-of-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/the-irony-of-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"The Irony of Technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier in the semester we talked about the irony of technology increasing the amount of sales people instead of decreasing like so many thought it would. Technology has not only increased the amount of sales people but it is showing an economic change. People are starting to leave their corporate positions to pursue the creation of their own business.<\/p>\n<p>I think we have the access to more affordable computing and the gold mine of information we can find on the internet to thank for all this change. These new technologies are able to allow entrepreneurs reach their full potential with whatever ventures they want to pursue.<a href=\"http:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/noun_196411.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1653\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1653 lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/noun_196411-300x300.png\" alt=\"noun_196411\" width=\"182\" height=\"182\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/noun_196411-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/noun_196411-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/noun_196411-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/noun_196411-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/noun_196411-624x624.png 624w, https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/noun_196411.png 1200w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 182px) 100vw, 182px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 182px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 182\/182;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This increase of entrepreneurs is even causing people to rethink how work days are structured. The work environment is starting to evolve towards a more value based and flexible culture. Also, this type of culture is beginning to turn into a key component in attracting and keeping top talent.<\/p>\n<p>All these changes are thanks to the technology we have around us and entrepreneurs are using these new tools to take advantage of the endless business opportunities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier in the semester we talked about the irony of technology increasing the amount of sales people instead of decreasing like so many thought it would. Technology has not only increased the amount of sales people but it is showing an economic change. People are starting to leave their corporate positions to pursue the creation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1652"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1654,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1652\/revisions\/1654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}