Sean Castrina is a bestselling author of 8 Unbreakable Rules for Business Startup Success and the fictional tale The Greatest Entrepreneur in the World. Sean is an active entrepreneur and CEO having started more than 20 companies in the last 25 years. He has guest lectured on entrepreneurship at some of America’s finest colleges. He hosts The Ten Minute Entrepreneur, a top 10 business podcast on iTunes.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
- Frederick W. Smith founder, chairman, president, and CEO of FedEx
- Bill Gates
- Steve Jobs
- Elon Musk
- Jeff Bezos
- Donald Trump
When business started difficulties overcame:
“I think the key to starting any business is I never started a business that I understood the industry. Every business I have started came from experiencing a problem. Like I never once sat down and said okay this is a business idea. Typically, I just ran into a problem and solved it and said gosh there is probably a lot of other people that might have this problem and then found out that they did and turned it into a business”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
- Think and Grow Rich Book by Napoleon Hill
- The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Book by Stephen R. Covey
Favourite Quote:
“show me a man with no confidence and I will show you a loser every time” Donald Trump
Recommended Online Resources:
- QuickBooks accounting software, the cloud based solution for small businesses and self employed people.
- Mailchimp Email marketing, ads, landing pages, and CRM tools to grow your business on your terms. Get the word out with email, social ads, and make your life easier with automation. It’s easy, and you can start for free.
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“become a great entrepreneur and you will eventually start a great business. Work on you. The common denominator of great companies is a great founder so become a great entrepreneur. Develop the skills, develop the qualities great entrepreneurs have which I shared in this podcast little earlier”…[Listen for More]
More About Sean Castrina:
- Advantage Home Contracting
- Gig Strategic
- Platform Pros
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“Don’t let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning.” Robert Kiyosaki
Other Quotes From the Chat with Sean Castrina:
- “what I get blown away by is entrepreneurs that have a huge what if. What if I did this? What if we did that? And it’s typically just one audacious promise that they know if they could figure it out or deliver on it those customers would chase them down forever”
- “I am probably more apt to do something faster than slow. I would rather do it and it fail than be sitting around wondering what would have happened if I would have done it. Inactivity is a greater sin than activity.”
- “Statistically your second business is more likely to be successful than your first one. So, I always say get the first failure out of the way”
- “I would have guarded Cash more; I would have not tried to have everything perfect in the beginning. I think in the beginning I wasted money on things that didn’t necessarily matter… Don’t spend any money on anything that doesn’t get that start-up to survive. How great your office looks doesn’t matter, nobody cares. Guard that cash”
- “everybody needs to define what is success for them. And it should be definable, you should be able to measure it… Define success and then whatever yours is work your butt off every day to achieve it so that you can say five years from now, 10 years from now this was my goal and I achieved it. And in the process of achieving that success make sure you are still happy because you can be successful and not happy. And if you are not happy the success is irrelevant”
- “if you have the qualities of a successful person no matter what you do you are going to be successful at it”
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