Predicting who'd be successful in running a business is important to many stakeholders:
- The person deciding whether to become self-employed.
- The counselors, coaches, and even therapists who help people decide.
- Job seekers. New businesses create jobs.
- Society. Successful entrepreneurs create better goods and services, which benefit us all.
In predicting who'd be successfully self-employed, many rely primarily on quantitative research studies, for example, this meta-analysis. And in decades past, as a Berkeley Ph.D , trained to respect rigorous research design, I was among them..
