Tag Archives: Entrepreneur
What do 70% of successful entrepreneurs have in common? They all incubated their business ideas while employed by someone else. Indeed, most people start their own companies — or go freelance — in order to stop working for others. Why? Because most managers are simply unbearable. Year after year, Gallup reports that most employees are unhappy at work, and that the...
If you’re an entrepreneur, you know that things rarely go as planned. Many don’t survive the “Valley of Death” stage, when start-ups scramble for funding, resources, and customers, while still trying to get traction for their business idea. And yet some entrepreneurs hit it big and transform a business idea into a big brand. What do they do differently?...
From HBR Can you make — or “make over” — an entrepreneur? It’s a question that came up a lot as my co-authors and I researched our new book, Heart, Smarts, Guts and Luck. Those are the four traits we deemed crucial to entrepreneurial and business-building success. We even came up an Entrepreneurial Aptitude Test to measure how company founders and...
Once in a while an entrepreneur comes along with a technology-driven solution that makes life better. However, the ratio of entrepreneurs who do this to those who don’t is not good. If the East African tech startup scene is to mature through successful products something needs to change. We need to build services that bring relief to the pain consumers in our region...
