How to develop an entrepreneurial mindset

Escape from Cubicle Nation Podcast

English - May 05, 2008 18:41 - 41 minutes - 9.48 MB - ★★★★★ - 8 ratings
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Previous Episode: Is it possible to have a cool job?

Next Episode: Are you selling your entrepreneurial soul if you get a day job?

For this week's podcast, I had the pleasure of interviewing Gary Schoeniger, founder of the Entrepreneurial Learning Initiative.

Gary has a really interesting story -- from dead broke desperate handyman to successful entrepreneur.

Over the last 15 years, he has interviewed hundreds of successful
entrepreneurs to discover which skills are critical for starting and
running a business. Many are not what you think.

My favorite advice from the interview:

"Find a problem. Figure out how to solve the problem. Find more people with the same problem and you have a business."

I
like that Gary's views make me think. I have been in "do what you love
(and work and work and work and work) and the money will follow" mode
for so long that the "problem/solution" model was very intriguing.