What are the personality traits of a serial entrepreneur?
Skevington: I like taking risks. It’s the adrenaline rush of it. It’s a matter of, when you look around, do you see opportunity or problems? O’Donnell: The ideal position for me to be in is to always have more opportunities than you have time to pursue. That’s maybe a characteristic of a serial entrepreneur; they always have more opportunities lined up than the time to do them. How much does failure come into your thinking when you start an enterprise? Skevington: Think about it. You’ve got this perfectly good job. Every other Friday, this paycheck just gets put into your checking account. … If you’re passionate enough about an idea that you’re willing to walk away from that, into something where there’s nothing, there’s no paycheck, no anything … you’re not thinking about failure. You’re just not. Davis: You can’t worry about it. … You can’t let it intimidate you to the point where you don’t take chances, or you don’t do what you should do. Is failure OK in the mind of the seria
