As someone who has taken the plunge into entrepreneurship more than once, I am always drawn to Thomas Edison’s statement, “Genius is 1 percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration.”
Running your own business is hard work, and it takes a great deal of perspiration to succeed. But there are plenty of attributes beyond hard work that are shared by successful entrepreneurs.
At SCORE Traverse City, we were recently introduced to the Entrepreneur Index created by eCareerFit. Based on interviews with thousands of entrepreneurs who have exceeded the five-year threshold for business success, the Index zeroes in on 12 behavioral traits that help to predict potential satisfaction and potential success as an entrepreneur.
