With an almost blind devotion, the technology sector loves to champion entrepreneurship as a universally good thing, but is it possible we’ve taken it too far? After all, if everyone is an entrepreneur we would end up in a classic “all chiefs, no Indians” situation. In many ways we’re already there, or at least close enough for it to be a legitimate problem.
In this post from PandoDaily, Francisco Dao hits the mark. Max Marmer of Startup Genome has also written in a similar vein on the Harvard Business Review blog, that we are over celebratising entrepreneurship. We need to be discouraging a few more people from entrepreneurship, based on sound assessment of character, which should also be the first criteria for investment as well. Dragon's Den and Silicon Valley reality TV need to go!
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