[Archelaos]

> At the earliest stages of building a business, being flexible and continuously re-evaluating your assumptions in order to find real market opportunities is more useful than having a lot of passion solving a single problem.

This. I helped a friend develop the software for his start-up, and everything has been continuously growing for 10+ yrs now. When doing so, I have no special passion for it. The project gets my full attention when I am working on it as any other project would get. Of course, I am kind of proud of what I did. But this satisfaction comes more from the impression that I did a good job, not from the enthusiasam that I am following a big vision or whatever.

[rubslopes]

I feel the same about every project I've worked on: I love engaging with the work, but I am never passionate about the vision/mission of whatever I am doing.

I wonder if I haven't found a vision that I am passionate about yet or I simply don't have the entrepreneur mind.

[Archelaos]

I rather think, that an "entrepreneur mind" is neither necessary nor sufficient to start an innovative company. It just gives a better story for the media. Or it works like the No True Scotsman falacy: everything that does not fit into the narrative is droped as not being relevant.

In other words: I will not deny that there are many success stories in which entrepreneurial thinking plays a role, but there seem to be a large number of hidden champions in which it did not play a central role and a lot of other cases in which people with an overconfidence in their entrepreneurial thinking failed due to a lack of other skills. I myself have witnessed both in my immediate vicinity.