{"id":984,"date":"2006-05-22T14:21:39","date_gmt":"2006-05-22T22:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/?p=984"},"modified":"2006-05-22T14:23:33","modified_gmt":"2006-05-22T22:23:33","slug":"going-to-the-x-prize-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2006\/05\/22\/going-to-the-x-prize-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Going to the X Prize Cup?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just listened to a podcast of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.odeo.com\/audio\/580209\/view\">Peter Diamandis speaking at Pop!Tech 2005<\/a>. He&#8217;s the founder of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xprizefoundation.com\/\">X Prize<\/a>. He&#8217;s got these crazy ideas about how to foster innovation. Instead of throwing money at a problem, offer up a prize for the first one to achieve the goal and let the competitive spirit of people take its course. He says that the 10 million dollar X Prize for a reusable space ship leveraged many times as much capital, getting people to try and win the prize. It&#8217;s a crazy idea that&#8217;s not so crazy! Charles Lindburg flew the Spirit of St. Louis to win a $25,000 prize offered by Raymond Orteig&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m kind of thinking of going to the X Prize cup but it&#8217;s a bit of a distance from me&#8230; Anyone interested in going with me?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xpcup.com\/index.cfm?goto=2006_x_prize_cup.2006_events\">X-Prize Cup Calendar<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just listened to a podcast of Peter Diamandis speaking at Pop!Tech 2005. He&#8217;s the founder of the X Prize. He&#8217;s got these crazy ideas about how to foster innovation. Instead of throwing money at a problem, offer up a prize for the first one to achieve the goal and let the competitive spirit of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}