Taking Sides
Are you are born with innate entrepreneurial talent or can you can be taught to operate like an entrepreneur?
Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures, Jason Calacanis, founder of Mahalo.com, and Mark Suster of GRP Partners, have all weighed in on the nature side – you’re born being an entrepreneur or you’re not.
Vivek Wadhwa, Director of Research, Center for Entrepreneurship at Duke, the Kauffmann Foundation for Entreprenuership and others have the opposing view – you can teach people to be entrepreneurial.
I weighed in on the subject in a previous post.
Mark Suster, Vivek Wadhwa and Patrick Chung, Partner of New Enterprises Associates debated the subject on April 21st at Stanford. I’ll was the moderator (referee).
Take a look at the video below.
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I thought it was a pretty good talk and worth listening to.
