{"id":766,"date":"2013-03-07T15:39:28","date_gmt":"2013-03-07T23:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2013.reno.wordcamp.org\/?post_type=wcb_speaker&#038;p=766"},"modified":"2013-03-26T13:26:47","modified_gmt":"2013-03-26T20:26:47","slug":"chris-lema","status":"publish","type":"wcb_speaker","link":"https:\/\/reno.wordcamp.org\/2013\/speaker\/chris-lema\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Lema"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chris (<a title=\"Twitter - Chris Lema\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/chrislema\">@chrislema<\/a>) started his first enterprise in 4th grade \u2013 with his own version of arbitrage. He bought packs of Now&amp;Laters for $.25 and sold each candy piece for $.25 the next day. For 15 days he was rich! Then, he got in trouble and the \u201cman\u201d shut him down.<\/p>\n<p>You could say the entrepreneurial bug bit Chris early. Since then, he has helped start three software companies, sold two of them, and joined two others to help accelerate their product development. He has worn the engineer, analyst, designer, product manager, architect and product marketer hats in different companies.<\/p>\n<p>Since 2006, Chris has been working for Emphasys Software as their Vice President of Software Engineering, focused on new product development and organic growth. He is also a blogger (<a title=\"Chris Lema\" href=\"http:\/\/chrislema.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">chrislema.com<\/a>), <a title=\"Amazon - Chris Lema\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Chris-Lema\/e\/B0077Q0QXG\" target=\"_blank\">ebook author<\/a>\u00a0and runs the <a title=\"WordPress Meetup San Diego\" href=\"http:\/\/www.meetup.com\/WordPress-San-Diego\/\" target=\"_blank\">WordPress Meetup in North County San Diego<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris (@chrislema) started his first enterprise in 4th grade \u2013 with his own version of arbitrage. He bought packs of Now&amp;Laters for $.25 and sold each candy piece for $.25 the next day. For 15 days he was rich! Then, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/reno.wordcamp.org\/2013\/speaker\/chris-lema\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Chris Lema<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9151162,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_wcpt_user_name":"","footnotes":""},"speaker_group":[],"class_list":["post-766","wcb_speaker","type-wcb_speaker","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pheMYw-cm","avatar_urls":{"24":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/ec0be959fade9c4dea058f07f49918e3245931a516445d4f57c07eb531e35787?s=24&d=mm&r=g","48":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/ec0be959fade9c4dea058f07f49918e3245931a516445d4f57c07eb531e35787?s=48&d=mm&r=g","96":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/ec0be959fade9c4dea058f07f49918e3245931a516445d4f57c07eb531e35787?s=96&d=mm&r=g","128":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/ec0be959fade9c4dea058f07f49918e3245931a516445d4f57c07eb531e35787?s=128&d=mm&r=g","256":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/ec0be959fade9c4dea058f07f49918e3245931a516445d4f57c07eb531e35787?s=256&d=mm&r=g","512":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/ec0be959fade9c4dea058f07f49918e3245931a516445d4f57c07eb531e35787?s=512&d=mm&r=g"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reno.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reno.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reno.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/wcb_speaker"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reno.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9151162"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reno.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=766"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/reno.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1425,"href":"https:\/\/reno.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/766\/revisions\/1425"}],"sessions":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reno.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/1067?_embed=1&context=view"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reno.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"wcb_speaker_group","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reno.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker_group?post=766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}