ABSTRACT
Vidal Sassoon, the noted hair stylist and entrepreneur, quipped that “the only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.” Becoming and being an entrepreneur is hard work. We look at successful entrepreneurs after the fact of their success, and we note that they seem to have a certain mix of innate and acquired personality characteristics. But that is a judgment after the fact. We assume that the successful entrepreneur possessed certain traits that made for success, and we often ignore what happens during the process of building a startup that made a fundamental change in outlook to the founders themselves. The individual does not necessarily start out as an entrepreneur but via the experience itself becomes one. Becoming a successful entrepreneur is a creative act.
