Welcome to the 10-minute Entrepreneur Podcast, intended to equip and encourage business owners and aspiring entrepreneurs,

taught by active business owner, best-selling author, and teacher, Sean Castrina.

All right, Sean Castrina with with the 10-minute entrepreneur podcast.

And this is one of our teaching editions, which I like probably the most.

And today I want to talk about the lean startup to a big business.

And why do I say to a big business?

Well, if you've ever read the book The Lean Startup, the problem that I have with it,

you know, it talks about, and this is like the $100 startup and businesses like that, they're fantasies,

okay? What these are, these are businesses for like a freelancer, a solopreneur, or a side hustle.

These aren't what I call businesses that are going to employ people and generate, you know, half million dollars or above.

Okay? Typically it's the owner's working and he's or she is the technician.

He or she is the person who's doing all the work. And to me that's a certain type of business, but it's not the businesses that I spend most of my time teaching about.

So what I want to talk about is how do you start a business with the least amount of money, but a business that has big potential,

potential to make real money, employ lots of people to be just a durable company that in time you can sell

and make a lot of money with.

All right.

You need to put your money into three things and only these three things.

The first thing is you got to have proof of concept.

And with that proof of concept, cost of concept.

So I'm gonna talk about two things.

First thing is, what you're offering does it work?

Okay, if you're manufacturing a product, can you manufacture it?

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