{"id":589,"date":"2007-01-19T16:05:08","date_gmt":"2007-01-19T22:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/01\/doing-something-on-the-fringe\/"},"modified":"2007-01-19T16:05:45","modified_gmt":"2007-01-19T22:05:45","slug":"doing-something-on-the-fringe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/01\/doing-something-on-the-fringe\/","title":{"rendered":"Doing Something On The Fringe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Inc.com&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/inc\/headlines\/~3\/77742326\/loners.html\" target=\"_blank\">Not Only the Lonely Become Entrepreneurs<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Ever wondered about the kinds of people who become entrepreneurs? In a recent survey, <strong>43 percent of entrepreneurs admit they were loners as kids<\/strong>, while 25 percent said they would have been described as nerds. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Isn&#8217;t that interesting? As a psych major in college, I was always fascinated by personality types. Here is an insight that helps explain this entrepreneur mentality:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;People who have the personality and motivation to be the leader and start something on their own are more inclined to feel like they aren&#8217;t part of the social structure,&#8221; said Mark Rice, Dean of the Graduate School of Business at Babson College. <em>&#8220;Entrepreneurs by definition are different,&#8221; Rice added. &#8220;They are doing something on the fringe.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Inc.com&#8217;s Not Only the Lonely Become Entrepreneurs: Ever wondered about the kinds of people who become entrepreneurs? In a recent survey, 43 percent of entrepreneurs admit they were loners as kids, while 25 percent said they would have been described as nerds. Isn&#8217;t that interesting? As a psych major in college, I was always fascinated by personality types. Here is an insight that helps explain this entrepreneur mentality: &#8220;People who have the personality and motivation to be the leader and start something on their own are more inclined to feel like they aren&#8217;t part of the social structure,&#8221; said Mark Rice, Dean of the Graduate School of Business at&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/01\/doing-something-on-the-fringe\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communication"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-9v","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":418,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/11\/entrepreneurs-and-charity\/","url_meta":{"origin":589,"position":0},"title":"Entrepreneurs and Charity","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"November 4, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Inc.com posted this article earlier in the week - Entrepreneurs Twice as Charitable as Heirs. 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