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I like the last one especially. It's incredibly hard to focus.

Agreed...and people often seem to lack the true passion necessary to stand beind their concept and drive the idea into production despite the lurking fear of failure.

I love your last point about focus best of all (liked all the others too). I've found that in all simple ideas and concepts complexity slowly builds up anyway and even simple concepts can grow into highly complex opportunities over time. However, if you start w/a complicated opportunity, the complexity becomes unwieldy very quickly and the start-up ends up dying a sure and rapid death under the weight of its overburdened concept.

The "Arrogance" sin is particularly tricky because entrepreneurs have to mentally be able to "walk on water", and face situations of tremendous stress and difficulty. Without a minimum of arrogance, Founders won't be able to be up to the challenge. And it is not only about self confidence.

I remember chatting with my Managing Partner (when I was still in the VC business) after a meeting with an entrepreneur that was really full of it, and my Partner's comment was that most of the CEOs having made a lot of money for him had the same trait.

Thanks for the post. It gave me validation that I going about this the right way. An idea born out of personal experience, along with some other members and continuous collaboration and communication. We are a virtual group, and have started using many of the tools available on the web, i.e. jotspot and skype, and aim. Communication is constant and collaborative.

Dear David

I find your blog to be very informative and educational. But that does not mean i agree with all that you write. Specially your first item on 7 sins "inauthenticity". Your definition of this could apply more aptly to innovators than enterpreneurs. If you look around many life changing companies were formed by students with hardly any knowledge of the domain or industry. Jeff Bezoz, Steve jobs, Bill Gates, Pierce Omidyar, sergi berin, larry page etc etc etc. Once these people concieved an idea they hired people with business and management experience to fill the gaps and convert it into realty.

secondly many ideas were initiated without any long term vision of how it would turn out to be. Most expected it to be fun to make it work.

This is just my two cents.

regards

kundi

Hi David,

As a relatively new entrepreneur (working on version 2.0 of my first venture) I wish I'd read this entry a few years ago, but still useful.

One comment on your list. The Sloth one - is it your intention to portray starting a business as something that one does to the exclusion of other things, like family? If so, I disagree. I NEVER would have made it as far as I have without my wife's support, and my kids keep me grounded and sustain me.

Thanks!

Greg

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