{"id":3044,"date":"2019-12-01T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-01T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/?p=3044"},"modified":"2019-12-10T16:48:20","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T16:48:20","slug":"why-entrepreneurs-say-rules-shouldnt-apply-to-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/why-entrepreneurs-say-rules-shouldnt-apply-to-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Entrepreneurs Say Rules Shouldn\u2019t Apply To Them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"speakable-paragraph\">Want to know which of your teen-agers might grow up to become a successful entrepreneur? Look at their SAT scores and their rap sheets.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the implication of some widely discussed&nbsp;<a class=\"color-link\" href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/qje\/article-abstract\/132\/2\/963\/2724553\/Smart-and-Illicit-Who-Becomes-an-Entrepreneur-and?redirectedFrom=fulltext\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-ga-track=\"ExternalLink:https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/qje\/article-abstract\/132\/2\/963\/2724553\/Smart-and-Illicit-Who-Becomes-an-Entrepreneur-and?redirectedFrom=fulltext\">research<\/a>&nbsp;published three years ago in&nbsp;<em>The Quarterly Journal of Economics<\/em>, one of the most respected publications in the field. The authors conclude that \u201cthe combination of \u2018smart\u2019 and \u2018illicit\u2019 tendencies as youths accounts for both entry into entrepreneurship and the comparative earnings of entrepreneurs.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;In other words, those really bright\u2014but sometimes bad\u2014boys and girls you remember from high school are most likely to succeed as entrepreneurs.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/dereklidow\/2019\/12\/01\/why-entrepreneurs-say-rules-shouldnt-apply-to-them\/#1b95600b187b\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Want to know which of your teen-agers might grow up to become a successful entrepreneur? Look at their SAT scores and their rap sheets.&nbsp; That\u2019s the implication of some widely discussed&nbsp;research&nbsp;published three years ago in&nbsp;The Quarterly Journal of Economics, one of the most respected publications in the field. The authors conclude that \u201cthe combination of&hellip;","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3044"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3044\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}