Are you a born entrepreneur? - Part II

I'm grateful to my friends at Small & Medium Thoughts for drawing my attention to a medical study that indicates genes are important part of why some people are entrepreneurial.

The conclusions were found by comparing self-employment in 609 pairs of identical twins, who share all the same genes, and 657 pairs of non-identical (fraternal) twins.  Twins share the same rate of entrepreneurs as in the general population.  Where one twin is entrepreneurial the other twin is more likely to be entrepreneurial if they are an identical twin rather than a fraternal twin.  This leads to the conclusion that genes are important or put another way in soccer world cup terms it's Nature 1, Nurture 0.

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Comments

[Andrew]

Wonderful article! Mike Sandy's book, I'm Finally in Business for Myself...Now What? really helped me decide to start a small business. Check it out at http://finallyinbusiness.blogspot.com/

[Philip Woodgate]

Hi Andrew

Yes, interesting isn't it? Being the parent of fraternal twins it really doesn't surprise me.

Thanks for the link, one of the pleasures of writing this blog is being told about things like this.