I’ve worked with a lot of entrepreneurs over the years, and most of them have had their act and their venture together by the time they got to me. They may be huge successes, mild successes, or neither, because there is no single executable path for an entrepreneur to succeed, and thus, no way to predict the outcome.

On the other hand, some of the entrepreneurs I’ve worked with didn’t have it all figured out, and that’s OK too. They may succeed without so much as a hiccup, especially if my instinct about them was right to begin with. 

They have the talent. I just don’t know about the idea. It might not even be a bad idea—I just can’t get 100% sold in, and by 100% sold in I mean I’d work on it myself.

But this is a good sign, for a couple of reasons.

One, it says a ton about the caliber of the entrepreneurs who have taken the plunge recently. These aren’t dreamers, they’re not wantrepreneurs, they’re not doing startup for the wrong reasons. They’re my favorite kind of newly-minted entrepreneur, the ones who just feel like there’s nothing standing in their way to bring their idea to reality. No more barriers, no more excuses, no more delay. They’re all in.
The other reason it’s good is that as long as we keep identifying good entrepreneurs and turning them into great entrepreneurs, it’s ultimately going to create more great startups here.

Want more? Read the full post at ExitEvent:

http://exitevent.com/article/why-we-should-stop-building-startups-and-start-building-entrepreneurs-151130

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