7 Harmful Myths of Entrepreneurship
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DISCIPLINED ENTREPRENEURSHIP 7 HARMFUL MYTHS OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP? 1 Bill Aulet Managing Director, Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship WWW.D-ESHIP.COM TWITTER: @BILLAULET What Are
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Summary of a presentation I gave to lunch in Connecticut (Trinity College and UConn Business School) to talk about the current state of entrepreneurship
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7 HARMFUL MYTHS OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP?
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Bill Aulet
Managing Director,
Martin Trust Center
for MIT Entrepreneurship
WWW.D-ESHIP.COM
TWITTER: @BILLAULET
What Are
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Being an entrepreneuris the new “cool” thing.
As a result,
demand for
entrepreneurship
is blowing up!
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But is there sufficient understanding of the topic?
Hmmm….
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7 Whopping LiesTold About
Entrepreneurs Which are Actually Damaging to All Parties Involved
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#1 -“Entrepreneurs are
mercurial individualists”
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#2 -“Entrepreneurs are the smartest & most high
achieving people in the room”
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#3 -“Entrepreneurs are born,
not made”
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#4 -“Entrepreneurs love risk”
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#5 -“Entrepreneurs are successful because they are charismatic”
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#6 -“Entrepreneurs are lucky”
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#7 -“Entrepreneurs are
undisciplined”
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If You Want More on the Lies …
1. You can find more description on most of these in my article “Six Whopping Lies Told About Entrepreneurs … Sometimes by Entrepreneurs Themselves,” in Forbesfrom July 10, 2013 (Hey, I added one more to make an even 7 when I gave the presentation last week)
2. To find it, just Google “Aulet Forbes Six Whopping Lies”
3. Or the direct link is at: http://www.forbes.com/sites/groupthink/2013/07/10/six-whopping-lies-told-about-entrepreneurs-sometimes-by-entrepreneurs-themselves/
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More info in General
The book
www.disciplinedentrepreneurship.com
Or more simply www.d-eship.com
Progress Dashboard
www.detoolbox.com
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Successful Entrepreneurship=
Spiritof a pirate
Skillsof a Navy Seal
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Illustrations done by the great Marius Ursache - @mariusursache on twitter
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