One of an entrepreneur’s fundamental characteristics is the need to create. When I asked some colleagues, “What is an Entrepreneur?” several of them touched on this point.
Shawn Hessinger took my question and posed it on his own blog, which itself is a great resource on bootstrapping startup businesses.
He received a couple responses, one of which was from Mark Seremet who wrote:
An entrepreneur is someone who loves to build things. She creates not just for the sake of creating but with the intention of getting her ideas efficiently to people willing to consume them. Entrepreneurs are driven not by money but …read more

Jim Estill’s an incredible success story. Canadian boy (woohoo!), starts by selling computer equipment out of his car. Some time later he’s running EMJ Data, which went public and made oodles and oodles of money. He’s now CEO of SYNNEX.
SYNNEX sells over a billion dollars of computer equipment in Canada each year. A freaking billion dollars.
This is a brief interview done via email with Jim. For a big-time CEO he’s amazingly available, I’ve had some great conversations with him over the last year. He reads voraciously (I forgot to ask him how fast he actually reads) and blogs about …read more