Chapter 17
Have you got what it takes?1
These days, it seems, almost everyone fancies being an entrepreneur, if not today, sometime in the not-too-distant future. If you’re reading this book you are probably among them. As you ponder your aspirations to become an entrepreneur, or as an early-stage investor you consider whether an entrepreneur you might back ‘has what it takes’, you might want to give some thought to the surprising and not simply unconventional – but somewhat counter-conventional – ways in which these characters we call entrepreneurs behave and the ways in which entrepreneurial minds typically work.
Over the better part of twenty years, I’ve worked closely with hundreds of entrepreneurs and studied more than 40 of them in ...
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