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Is Starting a Business Right for You?

What makes entrepreneurs tick? More specifically, what are the personal traits and backgrounds of people who become successful entrepreneurs? This chapter considers those questions and helps you decide whether you have the right stuff to be a business entrepreneur.

Many books and websites include self-scoring tests that you can use to assess your fitness for entrepreneurial life. (The US Small Business Administration [SBA] provides one such test on its site at https://www.sba.gov/starting-business/how-start-business/entrepreneurship-you.) These assessments can be a good place to start as you think through ...

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