{"id":1050,"date":"2015-04-02T00:24:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-02T00:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/projects\/horsesforsources\/hfs-exits-sourcing-advisor-biz_040515\/"},"modified":"2015-04-02T00:24:00","modified_gmt":"2015-04-02T00:24:00","slug":"hfs-exits-sourcing-advisor-biz_040515","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.horsesforsources.com\/hfs-exits-sourcing-advisor-biz_040515\/","title":{"rendered":"HfS officially exits the sourcing advisor business (even though we were never in it in the first place)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_17637\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-17637\" src=\"http:\/\/www.horsesforsources.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Gullible.jpg\" alt=\"No, I am not an advisor...\" width=\"330\" height=\"207\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">No, I am not an advisor&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">After our dramatic <a href=\"http:\/\/www.horsesforsources.com\/hfs-sourcing-advisor-market_04-0115\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fake announcement<\/a> that we had entered the sourcing advisory business on 1st April, our phones have been ringing off the hook from service providers desperate to get included in our deal pipeline (no joke).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">While, in hindsight, HfS&amp; would likely have been a roaring success disrupting the legacy\u00a0sourcing advisory business, we fundamentally have no desire to be an advisor shop. Sorry. Back to the research grindstone&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>And for all of you who sent congratulatory notes, please<em> do<\/em> read beyond the first paragraph next time we announce something. Especially on April 1st =)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, I am not an advisor&#8230; After our dramatic fake announcement that we had entered the sourcing advisory business on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,78,81,86],"tags":[303],"ppma_author":[19],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>HfS officially exits the sourcing advisor business (even though we were never in it in the first place) - Horses for Sources | No Boundaries<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.horsesforsources.com\/hfs-exits-sourcing-advisor-biz_040515\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"HfS officially exits the sourcing advisor business (even though we were never in it in the first place) - 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