Entrepreneurial characteristics

Entrepreneurs are as diverse as any group of people. Entrepreneurs have different sorts of businesses - from IT to biotech to not-for-profit to fancy food. While diverse, there is some agreement about common entrepreneurial characteristics:

• Are you a hard-working multi-tasker?
• Do you take the initiative or do you need someone else to explain the instructions?
• Are you in debt? Do you know where your money goes?
• Do you gamble and lose more than you can afford?
• Do you spend money on your ideas – or do you expect others to do that for you?
• Do you need stability? Or can you handle a few dramas and a bit of uncertainty?
• Do you just see yourself as just an "ideas person"? Or can you alsosee how to put those ideas into action?
• What experience do you have of entrepreneurial roles (from organising fund raisers in school or for social groups to selling stuff online)?

The following five qualities are neither inherently good nor bad. Think of them in terms of what's generally needed to be a successful entrepreneur:

1. Openness to experience
2. Conscientiousness
3. Extroversion
4. Agreeableness
5. Neuroticism.