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 Castorina with the 10-minute Entrepreneur podcast, one of our teaching additions,

which I like the most. I love interviewing people, but I love teaching startup founders and

business owners that are stuck. They just can't seem to get their company to grow anymore.

What I want to talk about today is the seven deadly sins of a startup. That's the

seven deadly sins of a startup. And, you know, I have lower end courses that I make available,

but I have told my team, they're all like, you need to have a, you know, a course for a thousand,

two thousand. I said, I'm not going to do it specifically around a startup. And they're always like, well, why?

I go because I can't guarantee the success of a startup.

So I'm not going to do a course where I can guarantee it, where I imply that because if you,

you know, if you work with me, you're going to succeed because half of all startups fail.

And they fail with decent ideas and good people. But they absolutely fail if you fall into

seven of these deadly sins that I find in startups. So I want to take you through these,

and I've always wanted to share. That's why I'm not a big

not a big course person. I actually like working with people one-on-one. I like working with boards of

companies. I like working with startup founders where I can kind of avoid mistakes that they might make.

But business is too fluid for me to create a course where these are the definitive answers of all your

problems, so I don't. All right, seven deadly sins of a startup. I don't know how I got off on

that tangent. The number one is the founder falls in love with their idea, and you've heard

me say this before, but they fall in love with it and they pose every question like this.

Let's say they were looking for criticism.

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