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Is there such a thing as a classic entrepreneurial personality?If you pondered the seemingly divergent personas of Donald Trumpand Bill Gates, you'd think not. But a recent study by theHagberg Consulting Group in Foster City, California, shows thatentrepreneurs do in fact tend to share certain characteristics thatset them apart from their Fortune 500 counterparts.
"We compared the 400-plus entrepreneurs in our databasewith executives of top companies," says Richard Hagberg, thecompany's president, "and found 10 traits in whichentrepreneurs showed a statistically significantdifference."
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