Internet entrepreneur Joe Dwyer had a simple formula for success in launching his first business: Work until you drop. He often worked seven days a week, rolling off his chair to the cold office floor for a few hours' sleep. That business took off, as did others in Mr. Dwyer's early career. By age 32, he had sold his shares in one business and had sold two others outright, for a combined windfall in the millions.
Time to relax, right? "What's the first thing I did when I quit? I started two new companies," he recalls.
Sometimes just one isn't enough. We call these people "multipreneurs" because for them, running one company at a time isn't sufficiently challenging or satisfying. Over time, they acquire multiple businesses and try to make them all fly at once.
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Author: Meg McSherry Breslin
