10 Ways to Know If Your An Entrepreneur

May 19, 2005 by Dane | 1 Comment
In Entrepreneurial Lifestyle

Tom Evslin:

Here in late night talk show format are the ten ways to know if you (or a loved one) is an entrepreneur.

  1. You can’t bring yourself to call anyone “boss”.
  2. You or any of your children can incorporate a business in your state in less than four hours.
  3. Instead of saying “there oughtta be a law”, you say “there could be a business…”
  4. You can’t stand to lose.
  5. You can survive losing.
  6. Some of your favorite people are VCs (condition applies only after obtaining at least one round of VC funding).
  7. Some of your least favorite people are VCs (condition applies only after ATTEMPTING to obtain at least one round of VC funding).
  8. You are most likely to start a new business immediately after thinking in the shower.
  9. You have to take two zeros OFF the numbers in your business plan or no one will believe it.
  10. You didn’t read this list because you already know what you are (and you don’t have time to read lists).

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  • None of Your Business on May 20th, 2005 at 8:32 pm

    10 Ways to Know If Your An Entrepreneur

    Dane’s 10 Ways to Know If Your An Entrepreneur post is really great! The #1 Way describes me well:

    You can’t bring yourself to call anyone “boss”.

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