Remove entrepreneurship-compulsion
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A Serial Entrepreneur’s Guide To Uncovering Awesome Startup Ideas

InfoChachkie

In my UC Santa Barbara Entrepreneurial course, I require the students to submit a venture idea every week. To help guide the students’ evaluation of the feasibility and merit of each idea, I require them to complete a one-page form, as specified in Entrepreneurship Is A Compulsion.

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Are You an Entrepreneur?

InfoChachkie

Entrepreneurship is so highly valued in the Western World that some people try to convince themselves that they are an entrepreneur, when in fact they would be better off at a Big Dumb Company (“BDC”). They are militantly optimistic, naive and compulsive. He was driven to play music, even though he could not afford a proper instrument.

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How to Know if You Have ADD and What to Do About It

Both Sides of the Table

Of course you should go on your own journey of discovery. But of course I would never do that. But overall I believe this leads to better entrepreneurship and why I believe so many entrepreneurs have ADD. It was hard to be mad at somebody who did well in school and who was funny and agreeable. I was a tinkerer.

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