At any given time, something like four percent of the US population is
engaged in some form of new-company-creation. And that narrow definition
of entrepreneurship doesn’t count all of the managers inside
established companies who are effectively engaged in the same process of
building an internal startup (see What
is a startup? for my more expansive definition).
What
motivates all these entrepreneurs? Typical explanations tend to focus on
the well-known anecdotes and larger than life archetypes we have in
mind: the twenty-something college dropouts (men, of course) from
Stanford inventing some radical new technology. The academic research
tells a very different story.
What do entrepreneurs look like?
Are they born or made? This is a hard question. I think the root cause
of that difficulty is that we tend to conflate two different questions
into one. First, what causes someone to attempt entrepreneurship instead
of a more traditional career path? And second, what attributes make
someone likely to be a successful entrepreneur?
To read the full, original article click on this link: Here's Why Personality Traits Can't Predict An Entrepreneur's Success
Author: Eric Ries
