The Best Training For Aspiring Entrepreneurs

In 2013, Silicon Valley venture capitalist Paul Graham let slip a secret. “I can be tricked by anyone who looks like Mark Zuckerberg,” he told New York Times Magazine. “There was a guy once who we funded who was terrible. I said, ‘How could he be bad? He looks like Zuckerberg!’”

It turns out even an experienced investor like Graham can be influenced by the notion that entrepreneurial success is genetically predetermined—inherit the right combination of money-making DNA, and you’ll wind up the founder of the next billion-dollar-valued startup.

That is, of course, nonsense. Entrepreneurs come in all shapes and sizes, and they do not enter this world fully formed. Like the rest of us, entrepreneurs come into being through a combination of innate characteristics, education and environment—and the skills necessary to be an entrepreneur can indeed by taught. (MBA schools agree: Witness the growing number of entrepreneur streams in B-school...

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