Wednesday, February 28, 2007
What Kind of Entrepreneur Are You?
Wow, who'da thunk you'd see silly surveys on the Internet. I've never seen one of those before :) But this one was sorta fun. For those of you running your own business:
WHAT KIND OF ENTREPRENEUR ARE YOU?
I still don't really think of myself as an entrepreneur.... I'm more of a guys who makes and sells videogames. I'm not even sure I'm actually spelling "entrepreneur" correctly. But my result was:
Your Entrepreneur Type:
The Artisan
You are a practical, hard working, honest individual who believes anything worth doing is worth doing well.
Entrepreneurial strengths:- persistence
- integrity
- multi-disciplinary and self-sufficient
- works well in teams
- risk aversion
- difficulty with the big picture and abstraction
- personality may not be forceful enough to lead
What's pretty interesting (to me) is that when I first started RampantGames.com, I think I'd have gotten a completely different type. Probably "The Geek." Not that this is all that accurate of a test or anything. But I've noticed - with some amusement and even astonishment - how my attitudes and focus has changed so much over the last three years. Topics that bored me to tears when I was in my 20s now fascinate me. Things like personal productivity, team management, marketing, and so forth.
But I still love making - and playing - games. And it's still all about making something cool. I don't expect that to change.
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Yeah, me too. One trait of the geek that really got me was this one.
* problems you may want to solve may not have a significant market
This has bee my problem so far in trying to make money from development. The contracts I take from others are usually interesting, but low budget. A few years ago I did a network intrusion analyser in jogl. It did a lot of cool things and made reviewing the logs easy, but I never saw them hit the market with it.
I think they had trouble distributing it due to the unstable nature of jogl at the time.
Oh well, I enjoy programming. I just got done submitting two games in the java unlimited 4k game competition. Now that was fun.
* problems you may want to solve may not have a significant market
This has bee my problem so far in trying to make money from development. The contracts I take from others are usually interesting, but low budget. A few years ago I did a network intrusion analyser in jogl. It did a lot of cool things and made reviewing the logs easy, but I never saw them hit the market with it.
I think they had trouble distributing it due to the unstable nature of jogl at the time.
Oh well, I enjoy programming. I just got done submitting two games in the java unlimited 4k game competition. Now that was fun.
I've been part of larger companies where that was the issue. Really cool technology, brilliant idea, everyone says, "Wow, that's really cool, I'd like it..."
But nobody likes it enough to actually pay for it. Cool technology that doesn't actually affect the bottom line (for businesses) in a positive way is a really tough sell. I worked on a security product for a while... and that's one of the hardest things to sell of all. People (myself included) don't usually think much about security (or backups) until AFTER it's too late.
But nobody likes it enough to actually pay for it. Cool technology that doesn't actually affect the bottom line (for businesses) in a positive way is a really tough sell. I worked on a security product for a while... and that's one of the hardest things to sell of all. People (myself included) don't usually think much about security (or backups) until AFTER it's too late.
... off topic, but I am rather bothered by the gender question on that survey. male, female with lots of male friends, or intending to become male? WTF?
Okay, yeah, there isn't one for just being a female without a lot of male friends. I guess the author got overly silly there.
The one was about "becoming a man," not a male... I took that as in "growing up," a rite of adulthood kinda thing. As in you aren't a man unless you own your land... or first million... or something.
The one was about "becoming a man," not a male... I took that as in "growing up," a rite of adulthood kinda thing. As in you aren't a man unless you own your land... or first million... or something.
Maybe if you made a security video game. Shoot down all the hackers before they snoop your file system. Those that you hit are instantly given the boot, and those that shoot you down are given a free pass to your system32 directory and all of your personal information including credit cards, SSN, etc. :-) Sounds fair enough.
I can just here the bosses talking now. "Yeah, that new security guy is pretty sharp on everything, but his lack of hand eye coordination just lost us those design documents the military just sent us."
OK, maybe not.
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I can just here the bosses talking now. "Yeah, that new security guy is pretty sharp on everything, but his lack of hand eye coordination just lost us those design documents the military just sent us."
OK, maybe not.
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