The One Temptation Every Startup Founder Has to Learn to Avoid

The consequences will destroy your company.

Aaron Dinin, PhD
Entrepreneurship Handbook
6 min readJul 3, 2023

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Can you avoid the forbidden fruit of startups?

One of the most effective TV commercial campaigns of all time was the “easy button.” It was created by US office supply retailer Staples, Inc., and it featured people pressing a fictitious “easy button” when they needed help with complex, office-related tasks. The campaign was so…

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I teach entrepreneurship at Duke. Software Engineer. PhD in English. I write about the mistakes entrepreneurs make since I’ve made plenty. More @ aarondinin.com