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Entrepreneurship: Nature vs. Nurture

There has been a flurry of debate about this topic over the past few months. Vivek Wadwha’s post on TechCrunch resurrected this age old debate last month.

Since Vivek’s post, I have taken a considerable amount of time to reflect on what Vivek said before posting my own point of view. Mark Suster also recently wrote an insightful response, which is in contrast to Vivek’s, which inspired me to think much harder about this topic.

With the backdrop of the two posts above, here’s my point of view: I firmly believe entrepreneurship is 20% nature and 80% nurture.

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