Planning to invest in a new business, but confused about which entrepreneur to pick? Well, everyone has great proposals but what’s really telling of an entrepreneur is what he or she does when not working..!
Yes, asking about hobbies might be a cliche but it definitely tells you more than what a proposal tells you.
Successful entrepreneurs and generally anyone successful will always have an interest quite distinct from their profession. It’s this dimension or layer which informs an entrepreneur’s day to day life, even career decisions. Though the 2 are not related they do complement each other in a big way.
Be it sports or even a rare fetish like coin collection, they all influence them as individuals, businessmen/women.
Attention to detail, adventurous, empathizing, team-worker, these are some of the many attributes you associate with entrepreneurs. And certain hobbies will only help enhance these qualities in a big way.
Get to the real person hidden behind those proposals.
Ask them what they do on weekends? Ask them about how they spend free time? What kind of things apart from work interest them?
The key is to look beyond a great degree or experience. Millennial do value work-life balance much more than their previous generations, so it’s more possible that they have something or do something (apart from work) to complete this balance. And most of the time they always do.
