HOW THIS TEST WORKS
How What Are My Entrepreneur Strengths? works
How version core-v1 is scored, and what it can and cannot tell you.
How it is scored
Research on entrepreneurs finds modest links between some personal traits and starting or running a business, such as drive, openness to new ideas, and comfort with uncertainty (Rauch and Frese, 2007; Zhao and Seibert, 2006). Belief in your own founder skills also matters, and it grows with practice and small wins (McGee and others, 2009). Expert founders often start with what they have, limit what they can afford to lose, and adjust as they learn (Sarasvathy, 2001).
This test looks at seven areas: self-starting, sticking with it, handling risk and the unknown, spotting opportunities, selling and persuading, managing money, and getting things done. Each area has eight sentences. Four describe a strong habit and four describe the opposite. Each answer gives 0 to 4 points. Each area score runs from 0 to 100, and your overall score is the average of the seven.
PersonalitySite.com wrote all of these questions and descriptions. They are not copied from any other test.
What it cannot tell you
This test is for learning and planning. It does not predict whether a business will succeed, and it cannot tell you whether you should start one. Do not use it to pick founders, to make funding or lending decisions, or to hire, rank, or rate people.
Most of what makes a business work is outside any test: the idea, the market, timing, money, the team, and luck. Founder habits can also be learned, and many founders rely on partners for the areas they find hard.
This version has not yet been tested with a large group of people, so we do not yet know how accurate it is.