Summary of a presentation I gave to lunch in Connecticut (Trinity College and UConn Business School) to talk about the current state of entrepreneurship

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7 HARMFUL MYTHS OF
ENTREPRENEURSHIP?
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Bill Aulet
Managing Director,
Martin Trust Center
for MIT Entrepreneurship
WWW.D-ESHIP.COM
TWITTER: @BILLAULET
What Are

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Being an entrepreneur
is the new “cool” thing.
As a result,
demand for
entrepreneurship
is blowing up!

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But is there sufficient
understanding of the topic?
Hmmm….

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7 Whopping Lies
Told About
Entrepreneurs Which
are Actually Damaging
to All Parties Involved

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#1 -
“Entrepreneurs are
mercurial individualists”
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#2 -
“Entrepreneurs are the smartest & most high
achieving people in the room”
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#3 -
“Entrepreneurs are born,
not made”
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#4 -
“Entrepreneurs love risk”
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#5 -
“Entrepreneurs are successful
because they are charismatic”
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#6 -
“Entrepreneurs are lucky”
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#7 -
“Entrepreneurs are
undisciplined”
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If You Want More on the Lies …
1. You can find more description on most of these in my
article “Six Whopping Lies Told About Entrepreneurs …
Sometimes by Entrepreneurs Themselves,” in Forbes
from July 10, 2013 (Hey, I added one more to make an
even 7 when I gave the presentation last week)
2. To find it, just Google “Aulet Forbes Six Whopping Lies”
3. Or the direct link is at:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/groupthink/2013/07/10/six-
whopping-lies-told-about-entrepreneurs-sometimes-by-
entrepreneurs-themselves/
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More info in General
The book
www.disciplinedentrepreneurship.com
Or more simply www.d-eship.com
Progress Dashboard
www.detoolbox.com
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Online course
www.bit.ly/e-101
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Successful Entrepreneurship
=
Spirit
of a pirate
Skills
of a Navy Seal
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Illustrations done by the great Marius
Ursache - @mariusursache on twitter
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