Entrepreneurial drive

In order to stand out from the crowd and be individually successful at any endeavor, you have to stand out. When you’re an entrepreneur, that means you’ve invested a ton of your own energy in creating a product and promoting it to the point where you can sustain yourself (and hopefully others) with the profit from that effort while at the same time competing with large, efficient enterprises likely doing a similar thing.

No matter what else you bring to the table, success in that arena takes a certain kind of drive. You have to be passionate about creating your product and you have to be passionate about promoting it, too. Or, you have to be deeply passionate about one side of the coin and have a partner that feels similarly passionate about the other side. You have to be driven to make it work, devoting much of your life to transforming an idea into success.