Comments on: Serial entrepreneurs focus on core strengths

By: Anil

Anil — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 10:17:50 +0000

Just curious. What happens to ventures that serial entrepreneurs start? Do they let go of a venture they’d started for the next one they’re keen to start-up? Also curious about the avarage time-gap between any two ventures that serial entrepreneurs start-up?

By: Jamie

Jamie — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 23:34:48 +0000

Shefaly
The Je ne sais quoi, serendipity, alchemy if you will are by their very nature hard to “quantify”.
Apropos nothing BUT maybe in keeping with the subject matter I recently read an article on IQ scores/tests and intelligence. As per usual there were no absolute statements saying high IQ test scores were indicative of greater intelligence. However when the question “how many uses can you think of that a brick could be used for- answer in 60 seconds” was asked of two groups, one very high IQ and one average IQ, the best results/uses did not come from the above average IQ group, they were realatively evenly spread across both groups. Flexibilty of thought may be a key attribute of the entrepreneur?!

By: Ray

Ray — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 04:59:26 +0000

Very good article Shefaly. What a coincidence. I also wrote a quick blog post today on Build on your strengths, not your weaknesses. I’ve included a link to this post to benefit my readers. Thanks again for this post.

By: neo

neo — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:35:02 +0000

Nice post. As a blogger, I feel my core strength is “willing to write about issues that most people find too boring to write about themselves, but don’t mind reading if someone else has written about it”.

Still trying to figure out how to make this into a startup.

By: Michael Hsu

Michael Hsu — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 23:42:45 +0000

Absolutely a very well written (and thought provoking) article. Absolutely agree with you on the idea of creating new markets by adding on new idea and/or removing previous known restrictions to core competencies. Thanks for the insight.