{"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":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/01\/doing-something-on-the-fringe\/","title":{"rendered":"Doing Something On The Fringe"},"content":{"rendered":"

From Inc.com’s Not Only the Lonely Become Entrepreneurs<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Ever wondered about the kinds of people who become entrepreneurs? In a recent survey, 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
Isn’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
“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’t part of the social structure,” said Mark Rice, Dean of the Graduate School of Business at Babson College. “Entrepreneurs by definition are different,” Rice added. “They are doing something on the fringe.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
From Inc.com’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’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: “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’t part of the social structure,” said Mark Rice, Dean of the Graduate School of Business at… 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_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-9v","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}