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Exactly my point actually. You work in an industry, might even have a cozy corporate job and great benefits. You're on a solid career trajectory. Leaving that t
by rcarrigan87 12y ago
Exactly my point actually. You work in an industry, might even have a cozy corporate job and great benefits. You're on a solid career trajectory. Leaving that to start a company rarely makes financial sense. But most people aren't assessing it through that lens. They know their industry, have a great idea, and they HAVE TO DO IT. Even if financially it seems nuts!
- Xodarap 12y agoEntrepreneurs are, in general, not motivated by money. This may be what you are saying - in which case I agree! What I object to is this statement: > Or may you just don't have the risk tolerance for entrepreneurship. Risk tolerance is at best weakly related to the likelihood that you will become an entrepreneur, and risk-tolerant entrepreneurs [perform worse](http://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/docs/00/85/66/06/PDF/PEER_stage2_10.1016%252Fj.jebo.2010.02.012.pdf http://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/docs/00/85/66/06/PDF/PEER_st...) than average.