Ask any book publisher and they’ll tell you that success stories sell. But those success stories often paint a warped picture of entrepreneurs as being super-humans with x-ray-like vision into the future. I can tell you from not only being an entrepreneur for the last 30 years, but also in working with hundreds of successful entrepreneurs, that much of the mythology we build around entrepreneurship is a false narrative that doesn’t help those who are just getting started. This false story is what I call the back-story of entrepreneurship. Looking at my own experience and of those around me, […]
