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The 10 Minute Entrepreneur

Ep. 451: 10 Things I Wish I Knew When I Got Started

The 10 Minute Entrepreneur

Sean Castrina

Entrepreneurship, Marketing, Business

4.8308 Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2023

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Some people are too broke to hire and building a successful business is more like playing Risk than is is playing Monopoly! Here are 10 things I wish I knew when I got started.

 

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You are listening to the 10 Minute Entrepreneur podcast with host Sean Castrina.

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Today's lesson is called the 10 Things I Wish I Would Have Know When I first got started

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in entrepreneurship.

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The fact is there's probably a thousand of these.

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I could probably do one of these every three months and do this over my entire lifetime

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and give you guys some great stuff.

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But I'm going to take you through 10 today.

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And these aren't necessarily the 10 absolute, you know, my absolute one through 10 list.

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They're in the top 50, but they're incredible.

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And I wish I would have known all these when I got started.

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The first one is a good idea may not be your idea.

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In other words, just because you've got a good idea, it may be the wrong time for it.

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Okay, it may not have synergy with anything else you have going on.

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And you may not have the team to implement it.

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I mean, I'm an idea person.

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I have what I think are pretty good ideas often.

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But again, I've tried to run on good ideas, but if it didn't fit with other things I had going on,

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you know, it just distracted me from things that were already making me mine.

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But it wasn't at the right time.

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Things never work when the timing's not right.

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And typically it's not the right time because you don't have enough resources at that time.

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You don't have enough expertise at that time.

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