{"id":264,"date":"2012-01-20T20:07:39","date_gmt":"2012-01-20T20:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/letslunch.com\/blog\/?p=264"},"modified":"2012-01-20T20:07:39","modified_gmt":"2012-01-20T20:07:39","slug":"letslunch-lands-in-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/letslunch.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/letslunch-lands-in-italy\/","title":{"rendered":"LetsLunch Lands in Italy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><strong id=\"internal-source-marker_0.4157075909897685\">For every US based plea to launch in a new city we received requests to expand to Italy, London, Hong Kong, and everywhere in between. How were we supposed to launch globally on a lean budget? How were we supposed to learn about these international markets when we barely had the resources to cover several US cities? This is when some of those international.<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><strong id=\"internal-source-marker_0.4157075909897685\"><a href=\"http:\/\/letslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/italy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-269\" title=\"italy\" src=\"http:\/\/letslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/italy-300x176.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"176\" srcset=\"https:\/\/letslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/italy-300x176.jpg 300w, https:\/\/letslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/italy-1024x600.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/letslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/italy.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nWhat will be our first stop on this world tour? \u00a0The wine-rich shores of Italy, where business lunch meetings aren\u2019t just standard, they\u2019re part of the culture. \u00a0Italy is the land of two hour lunches where relationships get started and business deals are made. \u00a0We couldn\u2019t have asked for a better petri dish to test our service on the international scene. \u00a0We couldn\u2019t have asked because you asked us. \u00a0Of all the suggestions we received for places to grow, Italy was the resounding winner. \u00a0Countless visitors and fans have been begging for a launch in Italy and some evangelists have even partnered with us to make this dream a reality. \u00a0They\u2019ve also helped us get covered by Italy\u2019s tech media \u00a0\u00a0The buzz has been remarkable.<\/strong><\/div>\n<div>Check out http:\/\/www.LetsLunch.com\/Italy.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For every US based plea to launch in a new city we received requests to expand to Italy, London, Hong Kong, and everywhere in between. How were we supposed to launch globally on a lean budget? How were we supposed to learn about these international markets when we barely had<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/letslunch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/letslunch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/letslunch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/letslunch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/letslunch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/letslunch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":272,"href":"https:\/\/letslunch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions\/272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/letslunch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/letslunch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/letslunch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}