Entrepreneur in Residence (Archived)

You can’t miss the plethora of information on entrepreneurship! I enjoy this often debated “nature vs. nurture” question, “Are entrepreneurs made or born?”

In Ernst & Young’s survey of 685 entrepreneurs they found there was no one “entrepreneurship gene” which leads to success and that “certain characteristics and habits typically are shared by successful business leaders.”

 “Entrepreneurs have a strong locus of control – a belief that events result directly from an individual’s own actions or behaviors”, and I confess as a serial entrepreneur, this key finding has my name written all over it. Read on for more key findings:

http://www.ey.com/GL/en/Services/Strategic-Growth-Markets/Nature-or-nurture–Decoding-the-DNA-of-the-entrepreneur

Take the Harvard Business Review 2 minute “Should You Be an Entrepreneur?”

http://blogs.hbr.org/2010/02/should-you-be-an-entrepreneur/

or try BDC’s 10 minute self-assessment:

http://www.bdc.ca/EN/advice_centre/benchmarking_tools/Pages/entrepreneurial_self_assessment.asp

“The Best Answer Ever” I found for “What’s an Entrepreneur?” is by Inc.’s Eric Schurenberg who wrote:

  “Entrepreneurship is the pursuit of opportunity without regard to resources currently controlled.” 

Welcome to the world of entrepreneurship.  Often quoted, a Steve Jobs’ aphorism, “Do what you love.”