8 Outdated notions of entrepreneurship

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6 pointsDaniFong3 comments

How much of this rings true for people here?

Most businesses succeed?

It's only now that the self-employed are happy because they have control over their work and they have a flexible lifestyle?

I see lists like this, generalized assertions with little or no backing evidence, and tend to think it's near fully bogus.

I submitted it because I thought it was mostly true. Much of the backing evidence/arguments are linked too in the article. But mostly I think it's of worth for some perspective.

You're right that there are a lot of lists of generalized assertions around -- some of these bloggers sound a bit like the next generation of self-help authors. But sometimes the perspective unique, and valuable, and I think this is one of those cases.

I wonder if 'too' here is an ordinary typo, as I'd want to claim it, or it's genuinely true that my fingers don't understand the distinction late at night.

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