Destined to be an entrepreneur

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My assessment results:

Entrepreneur Readiness Assessment Results

Based on your responses to the assessment questionnaire, our conclusion is:

You are destined to be an entrepreneur!

You love to tackle a new enterprise, venture or idea, and are willing to assume responsibility and accountability for the inherent risks and the outcome. You see yourself as an ambitious leader whose dream is to combine labor and capital to create and market new goods or services.

You recognize that entrepreneurship is often difficult and tricky, resulting in a high risk of failure, but this is only more energizing to you. You long to be a business founder, and create value by offering a new product or service, and by carving out a niche in the market that may not exist currently. Your preferred approach is to identify a market opportunity and exploit it by organizing resources effectively to accomplish an outcome that changes existing interactions within a given sector.

Observers see you as being willing to accept a high level of personal, professional or financial risk to pursue opportunity. You probably dream of yourself in the category of some well-known names, including such people as Henry Ford, Andrew Carnegie and Bill Gates. You tend to look at problems, and see them as opportunities.

If you work for another company today, you probably also feel that your ambition is being held in check by corporate red tape and incompetent management. You are driven not so much by the need to make money, but by the need to make your dreams a reality. Money is a byproduct of this motivation rather than the motivation itself.

You are a participant, not an observer or a fan. Generally, you are an optimist, and believe that with the right amount of time and money, you can do anything. So go for it!

Here is a selection of articles from Startup Professionals Musings that will help you succeed as you proceed down this path:

Personality Traits of Winning Entrepreneurs
How to Be a Natural Born Entrepreneur
Entrepreneurs Foster Innovation
Procrastination is a Curse for Entrepreneurs
Entrepreneurs: Team with People Smarter Than You