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Good article. I will go out on a limb with a couple self-observed behaviors:

I'd venture to guess that a good litmus test for knowing if someone is ready to start a business is measuring their ability to deal with conflict.

When engineers aren't good at dealing with conflict, they are likely heading towards escapism when they start a project:

1) Engineers sometimes don't necessarily want customers, they want intellectual freedom. Having customers is scary, and if your subconscious goal is escapism, having customers is even scarier. 2) Listening to people may lead you down the road of doing something you don't want to do. See #1. This may mean not having the freedom to do what you think you want to do. Which likely is not making money.