Do You Have What It Takes to Make It as an Entrepreneur?
Everyone has ideas, but it takes a certain personality to successfully leave behind the security of a day job.

By Jenna Schnuer •

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"Entrepreneurs, generally, are more about doing than talking about doing, and if that's not in your nature, I think you're going to struggle as an entrepreneur," says Benjamin Yoskovitz, a Halifax, Nova Scotia-based angel investor and vice president of product for software-development platform GoInstant.
Jason Lucash, co-founder and CEO of Costa Mesa, Calif.-based OrigAudio, sums up the entrepreneurial psyche this way: "The entrepreneur is terrified of being the person who sees that someone else came up with the same idea five years from now."
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