- Are you prepared to endure with modest or no salary for a few years?
- Are you bored with your current work environment/life situation?
- Do you like to question conventional wisdom.
- Do you have an idea that no one can talk you out of?
- Do you have a partner you trust with complimentary skills?
- Can you handle high degrees of ambiguity or uncertainty
- Would you rather fail at your own thing than succeed at someone else’s.
- Are you passionate to solve a problem you think can be solved better
- Do you have the tenacity to endure and grow your business without pay
- Not scared or ashamed of failure?
- Do you have a high level of confidence in your own ideas and ability to execute
- Can handle rejection, being told “no” often and yet still have the confidence in your idea?
- Not highly susceptible to stress?
- Doesn’t follow rules very well and questions authority
- Can you get back up again after your first failure?
- Are you prepared to go through the jungle and the dirt road before you reach the highway?
