Startup Junkie Underground - Top 5 Traits of a Successful Entrepreneur June 27, 2011

There are thousands of traits entrepreneurs possess depending on personality, background and experience, but only a handful of these traits can influence your success.

Teju Ravilochan, co-founder of the Unreasonable Institute, has identified five common characteristics all of the entrepreneurs who have been through his program have embodied. Listening can seem like a simple task, but it is often mistaken for hearing; Listening involves conscious recognition of what the speaker says and the application of that to one’s own life-experiences. Why make your own mistakes when someone else can make them for you? Copy what works from the people who have been there, done that, got the t-shirt.

When you do go down the wrong path it’s important to be able to climb back up the mountain and keep going. The willingness to fail and persist when you feel like you can’t go on is what separates successful entrepreneurs from everyone else!

Successful entrepreneurs have the humility to ask for help, and to give help where it’s needed. Prideful people can never see the opportunities above them since they are always looking down. “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man” and woman. Being unreasonable in the world creates a blank slate of opportunity and success by going where no one has gone before, so which man will you be?

EVENT: Startup Junkie Underground
DATE: June 27, 2011 - Monday
TIME: 5:30pm-8:00pm
WEBSITE: http://www.davinciinstitute.com/events/539/startup-junkie-underground--monday-june-27-2011

LOCATION: DaVinci Institute, 511 E. South Boulder Road Louisville, CO 80027

COST: $20, Members: Free, SuperMembers: Free

PHONE: 303-666-4133

TOPIC: Top 5 Traits of a Successful Entrepreneur
SPEAKER: Teju Ravilochan, Co-founder of Unreasonable Institute

Official Website: http://www.davinciinstitute.com/events/539/startup-junkie-underground--monday-june-27-2011