This isn't your average business podcast and he's not your average host.

This is the James Altiger show.

You know, there's all these books about how to be an entrepreneur, how to sell, how to

negotiate, how to come up with great ideas.

But a lot of that is BS.

It's like after someone's been an entrepreneur and they created some business with zero

revenues and then they sell it for a billion or two dollars and then they get to write

a book or give a TED talk on here's how I was successful as an entrepreneur.

This is just a lot of garbage and I wanted to do a podcast about not what mistakes entrepreneurs

make but all the mistakes I made in the two and a half decades or three decades that

I've been an entrepreneur and I've made a lot of mistakes.

I'm not going to, I'm not going to say whether I should have or should not have made these

mistakes.

I'm just going to say what I did analyze why I think they were mistake and there's no

BS.

You could decide whether you, you can decide whether these were mistakes or not.

I'm looking back and I view these as mistakes and hopefully you can avoid them on your own

path to entrepreneurship.

So back in the 90s, I started an agency.

I was making websites for clients.

So for instance, a company would come to me and say, hey, can you build this website

for us for $20,000 and I would build the website.

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