Dr. Jeff Cornwall discusses a recent survey of small businesspeople on his Entrepreneurial Mind blog. According to the survey, most small business owners are motivated by the desire to be their own boss, and find entrepreneurship much more fulfilling and financially rewarding than they expected. The respondents also reported that entrepreneurship was much more difficult than they had expected, due primarily to the longer hours entrepreneurs spend working.

Read the article, which includes a link to the survey and a quiz that assesses your entrepreneurial savvy.

Jeff Cornwall of the Center for Entrepreneurship at Belmont University looks at the latest Global Entrepreneurship Monitor study to get a snapshot of the current face of entrepreneurship. One interesting, counterintuitive finding: the typical entrepreneur is getting older.

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