What can Everyone Learn from Great Entrepreneurs? There is no Single Path to Entrepreneurship

In my experience as a strategic advisor to business leaders as well as being a serial entrepreneur myself, I find that many people believe that they cannot become entrepreneurs because it is “too late” for them or perhaps the sun has set on their chance to make a massive change in an industry or the world. Whether it is the way entrepreneurship is marketed to the world these days or some other reason, these individuals feel there is a hard deadline on starting a successful business.

I have found that there are three common reasons that people believe they cannot become an entrepreneur:

• They believe entrepreneurship requires specific training or credentials like other fields of work
• They believe success in entrepreneurship comes before a certain age
• They believe they need to live in a certain area of the world

The great news that I bring to many individuals is that these reasons are baseless fears. Not a single reason listed above could not be further from the truth, and, today, I want to explore why.

Schooling Isn’t Always the Answer

First, let’s talk about the belief that entrepreneurship requires some specific…