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Four Questions To See If You Have A High Street Smart Business IQ
Hint: your upbringing doesn't dictate your entrepreneurial abilities
We've probably all had that one friend from high school or college. The one who talked the big talk. The one who always tried to get a hustle on everyone. The one — who when we were young and impressionable (or perhaps just more impressionable than we are today) inspired us with the way they carried themselves and carried out their business.
I mean, the way they even talked back to the teacher — we knew they were going to be something after school.
And then, years later, we find out via Facebook or some other type of social network that keeps us at a familial distance to acquaintances of our past life we see that they actually didn't amount to what we thought. Not to say they didn't end up successful, but that they didn't strike out on their own and enterprise some entrepreneurial endeavor. They got that quiet office job donning a title that makes them seem important enough.
Then of course there's the other friend from high school or college that pulled off a total one-eighty. They were considered by most at the school to be an "eff up." They never did their homework, they were constantly in detention, and they barely graduated. Against all the…
