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Defining the 5 Classes of Entrepreneur (brianshin.com)
10 points by brianshin on Feb 28, 2009 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



I remember way back in MG310 or some such, the sliding scale between the Promoter and the Administrator.

It went like this:

1. Likes new business, new things, getting the word out: Promoter

2. Likes built business, established, running things: Administrator

And there's a scale too. An Entrepreneurial Promoter/Administrator scale. It looked like this:

Promoter <-----------------------------------------------------> Administrator

Where the entrepreneurs just totally get off on promoting new things, and can't be bothered with details, so they hire administrators to run things. But administrators bore entrepreneurs, so entrepreneurs run off to Promote something new as soon as the admin start Administrating.

And at the end of that particular class, that if I did some basic division I would have realized cost me hundreds of dollars, I realized that this Promote/Administrate Entrepreneurial scale was completely, totally, fundamentally reflective of the real world. And yet, having digested this fancy correct lesson, I would never make additional money, make anyone else happier, or otherwise do anything particularly awesome with this scale.




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