Becoming an Entrepreneur

Four key traits can be either strengths or weaknesses.

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I have had a front row seat to many emerging companies over the years and several in the past months. It never gets old, watching people becoming first-time entrepreneurs. Hearing their tone change from, “I kinda miss that big company salary,” to, “I don’t want to go back, I’m going to make this work.”

It is a treat to see confidence forming as they talk to customers, and intimidation turn to excitement as they get their head around how their business will come together.

In today’s economy, many people freelance and work gigs without a long-term employment contract. A true example of an entrepreneurial approach to designing one’s work around one’s life. It is to be commended.

But here, we are talking about creating a company. A company that will need to recruit employees, build a brand and sales channels, will need offices and other expensive resources. That is something else entirely.

But people do it.

Those people are are worth a closer look for what we might learn.

What do they have in common?

Stepping back, I see several things in common in the many people I have known who successfully left big organizations and…