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Bo knows: You can’t make an entrepreneur

January 10, 2005 /

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Bo Peabody, one of the original Internet "boy wonder" entrepreneurs, has a message for MBA students taking classes in how to start their own companies: Give it up.

In a new book not likely to make the reading lists of entrepreneurship classes at any business school, Peabody argues that entrepreneurs are born, not made.

"One does not decide to be an entrepreneur," he writes in Lucky or Smart: Secrets to an Entrepreneurial Life (Random House, $13.95). "One is an entrepreneur. Those who decide to become entrepreneurs are making the first in a long line of bad business decisions."

By Greg Farrell, USA TODAY

Full Story: http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/technology/2005-01-09-peabody_x.htm

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