Come on then don’t keep us in suspense - what type of entrepreneur are you?

The URL on her site has changed since she blogged about it, I’ve changed my link to the right one.

We’ll have to agree to disagree about mortgages

Tried to do a profile on myself and got this response:

“This web page has attempted to run an ASP script.
However, ASP has not yet been enabled for this domain.

If this is your website, you can enable ASP or ASP.NET, using the Server options facility on your control panel.”

I would agree that he is quite risk averse, and doesn’t like getting into debt. I don’t believe it really counts when borrowing money on a mortgage against a property. In my opinion, getting into debt as a way of providing capital to get a business off the ground or continue growing it is different to borrowing against an asset that provides an income - such as a rental property.

John’s business ethic is definitely about lifestyle. I think he would prefer to work as little as possible for as much money as possible, to enable him to spend as much time as possible with his wife and newborn baby. He’s tried the rat race, and in fact had a succesful career before turning his skills to his own businesses. Since doing so, his income has probably remained similar, however the number of hours worked have probably reduced significantly, and the commute has reduced to nil, effectively giving him a much better quality of life.

I’d have to agree with you there’s more to it than money, have you read Ben and Jerry’s Double Dip - there’s a hugely successful business built by people that would most certainly fit your Sociopreneur label.

In response to your comment Jeff, the first test was an Entrepreneurial Profiler ‘borrowed’ (with permission of course!) from a company called Human Factors - you may have seen it featured in the Sunday Times back in February. We trialled it at the Growing your Own Business Show at Olympia back in March.

Having met the entrepreneurial ‘guru’ behind that original test - Dr Adrian Atkinson - he was very adamant in his view that only a very small percentage of people ‘qualify’ as entrepreneurs. Indeed on the trial we tested less than 10% profiled as such.

I felt there was more to it - that there were many more kinds of entrepreneur and that ’success’ in business is very subjective, and most definitely not just about money.

Also, in working with many budding businesses it became apparent that there are lots of tensions between the drivers - people want to go into business and be a huge success but don’t want to take any risks for example; people who want to make a lot of money - but when you probe that driver, the reason behind the ambition is that they actually want the money so they don’t have to work any more - when in fact most successful business people are extremely focussed and hard working, at least in the beginning.

So, in response, I created my own Profile Test. I realise it is not perfect - which is why I appreciate the feedback - but the responses I have had have on the whole been positive. At minimum it is making people stop and think and perhaps gain some self-awarenesss.

I’m sorry if you didn’t receive a response to your second Profile Jeff (yes it is true I have had PA problems, but hey the buck stops here - I did choose her after all) but if you re-send it direct to me I’ll ensure you get your result asap.

Regards

Rachel