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Chapter Three – Founder Readiness

1. Scott A. Shane, The Illusions of Entrepreneurship: The Costly Myths
That Entrepreneurs, Investors and Policy Makers Live By (New Haven:
Yale University Press, 2008), 98.

2. Ibid, 101.
3. Ibid, 117.
4. Vivek Wadhwa, Raj Aggarwal, Krisztina Holly, and Alex Salkever,

“The Anatomy of an Entrepreneur: Family Background and Mo-
tivation,” Kauffman Foundation (2009): http://www.kauffman.org/
uploadedFiles/ResearchAndPolicy/TheStudyOfEntrepreneur
ship/Anatomy of Entre 071309_FINAL.pdf.
5. Matt Sussman, Blogging Revenues, Brands and Blogs: SOTB 2009,
http://technorati.com/blogging/article/day-4-blogging-rev
enues-brands-and/.
6. Timothy Ferris, The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere
and Join the New Rich (New York: Random House, 2007).
7. This entrepreneurial profile was developed through the author’s
collaboration with Adam Ortiz, Psy.D., of Executive Develop-
ment Consulting, and Dr. S. Bartholomew Craig, of North Car-
olina State University.
8. Vivek Wadhwa, Richard Freeman, and Ben Rissing, “Education
and Tech Entrepreneurship,” Kauffman Foundation (2008):
http://www.kauffman.org/uploadedfiles/Education_Tech_
Ent_061108.pdf.
9. Ibid, 2.
10. A. H. Maslow, “The Theory of Human Motivation,” Psychology
Review 50, no. 4 (July 1943): 370-396.
11. Tim Berry, “5 Entrepreneurship Basics B-schools Don’t Teach,”
written November 2009, http://timberry.bplans.com/2009/
11/5-entrepreneurship-basics-b-schools-dont-teach.html.

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