via techdirt, i discovered an interesting paper on what makes entrepreneurs entrepreneurial:
“Entrepreneurs are entrepreneurial, as differentiated from managerial or strategic, because they think effectually; they believe in a yet-to-be-made future that can substantially be shaped by human action; and they realize that to the extent that this human action can control the future, they need not expend energies trying to predict it.”
as is pointed on by the good folks at techdirt, it’s not clear if there were any control groups, so the analysis should be taken with the appropriate grain of salt, but hey, that never stopped me from quoting at cocktail parties in the past.