PART ONE
WHO IS AN ENTREPRENEUR? THREE MYTHS
“Think of the best example of an entrepreneur you know of, and I will read your minds.”
This is the start of a mind-reading trick I have performed for audiences all around the globe. Perhaps you can already anticipate where this is going. After fifteen seconds or so, I show a slide of Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Larry Page, and Sergey Brin, to the inevitable smiles of recognition. My trick is over; sadly, it is the only trick I know how to pull off.
For most people, when they conjure up images of entrepreneurs, they invariably compose a picture of a twenty-something, tech-savvy college graduate (or dropout) in Silicon Valley, who after working awhile at Google or Microsoft or Facebook, dons ...
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