The Founder Institute, the world's largest entrepreneur training and startup launch program, has a vision to launch over 1,000 meaningful and enduring technology companies per year. In order to reach this scale, Adeo Ressi (Founder & CEO of the Founder Institute) hypothesized that a short, objective test could predict the likelihood that any person could build a successful technology company - regardless of their locale, profession, race, or demographic. For the last 5.5 years the Institute has been working closely with respected social scientists to develop such a test - a “Predictive Admissions Test”.
To date, over 20,000 people have applied, and the Founder Institute has graduated over 1000 technology companies across 6 continents (with an estimated value in excess of $5bn). The admissions test takes about an hour to complete, and it includes a battery of personality and aptitude evaluations. Applicants are not even required to submit their business ideas.
So what personality traits make for a great entrepreneur? Our research, which has been featured in The New York Times, CNN, and Forbes, is detailed in the infographic below.
Do You have Entrepreneur DNA?
The Final Application Deadline for the Chicago Founder Institute is in just a few days. Through our four-month, part-time program, promising startup entrepreneurs can “learn by doing” and launch a company through structured training courses, practical business-building assignments, and expert feedback from a large network of business mentors (see the Chicago roster of mentors here). Plus, you are not required to quit your day job to participate.
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