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The sexiest word you hear thrown about, and I'm guilty of this, entrepreneurship, to be an entrepreneur. 99% of the population. I don't care what country you're in, what state, what city. 99% of the population, not entrepreneurs.

Maybe that's wrong, I'm guessing, but I'm going to say 99% based on my own sampling

of just regular people over the last 20 years.

Now, I thought this was going to be different when Netscape went public in 1995. I thought there would be an avalanche

of entrepreneurs. And perhaps there was during the dot-com bubble and perhaps the dot-com bubble

washed people away. We're seeing some rise in entrepreneurship again with crypto, I think.

But is this stuff really being an entrepreneur?

I mean, if a wave happens, the dot-com bubble, crypto, and you're not doing anything other than

going along for the r ride with no particular plan.

Yeah, it's not really being an entrepreneur.

Being an entrepreneur is something visceral.

It's deep down.

And there's a starting point.

There's a starting point for being an entrepreneur.

Where I'm going to go today, I'm going to bring in three different pieces, things that I did not

write, but that are really great to me.

A very old Tim Ferriss blog post called the Top Five Re to be a jack of all trades. First.

Second, why entrepreneurs start companies rather than join them by guy named Steve Blank,

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