{"id":817,"date":"2007-11-27T21:56:28","date_gmt":"2007-11-27T21:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geoffjones.com\/2007\/11\/27\/taking-the-piss....\/"},"modified":"2007-11-27T21:56:28","modified_gmt":"2007-11-27T21:56:28","slug":"taking-the-piss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/?p=817","title":{"rendered":"Taking the piss&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2321\/2044865756_bf59124741.jpg?v=0\" alt=\"\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"10\" width=\"170\" height=\"227\" align=\"left\" \/>Great picture that caught my eye on<a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/stoat\/\"> Stoat&#8217;s blog<\/a>, taken by him at St. Pancras station, rather sums  up some of the  UK youth quite well.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2178\/2053539292_f60d7ed25a.jpg\" alt=\"Aspiring Googlers\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"10\" width=\"162\" height=\"217\" align=\"right\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile here is a different perspective on the UK taken at The Judge Business school where aspiring MBA&#8217;s are grabbing business cards from the Google girl (Alison Parrin) at the recent Silicon Valley Connects event. Where we heard such gems as a MBA is a waste of time if you want to be an entrepreneur and that anything learnt as a management consultant will have to be un-learnt  and my favourite were all the flying analogies in starting up companies such as Reid Hoffmans:- Starting a company is like jumping of a cliff and assembling an aeroplane on the way down with financing providing a thermal draught!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Great picture that caught my eye on Stoat&#8217;s blog, taken by him at St. Pancras station, rather sums up some of the UK youth quite well. Meanwhile here is a different perspective on the UK taken at The Judge Business school where aspiring MBA&#8217;s are grabbing business cards from the Google girl (Alison Parrin) at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}