miércoles, 6 de marzo de 2013

Do You Have Entrepreneurial DNA? A Test to Help You Decide

What does it take to be a successful entrepreneur? Plenty of opinions abound that if you’re not a 20-something young Turk with 100 hours a week to burn and an outsized ego, your chance at a thriving startup is gone. Then we spotted the admission test to the Founders Institute training program (www.fi.co). Founders Institute is the creation of serial Silicon Valley entrepreneur Adeo Ressi. In 3 years the early-stage startup accelerator has helped to launch 650 companies in 39 cities in 5 continents.


What are the right personality characteristics for a successful entrepreneur?

How do they know you’ll succeed? Founders Institute has been testing its applicants – 15,000 of them – since 2009, to assess which personality and aptitude traits match up with revenue growth and market success. So what kind of personality traits will mark your startup firm for success? Which will doom you to failure?


Here’s a fun tidbit for all of us “old dog” entrepreneurs: experience counts. What’s the ideal age to start a company? Thirty-four. In fact every year of age continues to increase your chance for success up to 40, but your odds don’t diminish thereafter. Let’s hear it for the world’s gray-haired entrepreneurs!
Now for the personality traits that predict your success: High fluid intelligence—not your IQ, necessarily, but your ability to apply known rules to new problems. A high degree of openness is helpful. Are you willing and able to challenge the norms? Moderate agreeableness is helpful. Can you balance cooperation and antagonism? Are you generally warm and considerate, but with the ability to be straightforward and firm when needs be? The best founders exhibit these flexible traits.
What are the death knell traits? Not surprisingly, they are
  1. Excuse making
  2. Emotional instability
  3. Narcisissm
  4. Deceit
  5. Predatory aggressiveness
http://www.forbes.com/sites/davidkwilliams/2013/03/01/do-you-have-entrepreneurial-dna-a-test-to-help-you-decide-article-and-infographic/