Interesting little diversion.
Turns out my inability to delegate and take advice makes me more suitable to be a sole trader. 
What did it tell you?
âSorry, trying to be an entrepreneur is probably not for youâ
Only been running my own business for 17 years 
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Found it a lot of bullshit.
Evidently, ârealâ entrepreneurs have been selling since they were in nursery, work 200 hours a week, take wild risks, but are doing it all not to make money or become their own bosses, but to âto help the world a little.â
I also got a condescending âYou donât take enough risks to become an entrepreneur, but thatâs actually a good thing, because business is too risky for the likes of you. Haha.â
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I did my own survey of what makes a successful bootstrapper.
TL;DR It varies a lot.
I got the same thing you did "inability to delegate"
Iâve been running my successful software company for over 20 years now.
Many of the questions are poorly constructed:
The one about âhow did you spend most of your time in teenage yearsâ.
When I was in elementary school I sold cinnamon toothpicks (toothpicks soaked in cinnamon oil) and loved playing Lemonade Stand (âbusinessâ game on the Apple Iie).
And the one about âhow much time would you spendâ. I did answer 10h/day 6d/week, but thatâs a poor metric.
WHAT you choose to work/focus on is far more important than HOW MANY HOURS youâre willing to work when youâre the boss. Itâs really easy to miss how vital good direction is b/c we get it âfreeâ when working for someone else.
Agreed.
And entrepreneurship doesnât have to be risky if you do it right.
If you validate at each step of the journey itâs far less risky than spending an extra 2 years in college to get a Masters degree (where you only get to validate after 2 years).
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Link is broken 
The link is working now (at least for me)
If you look at the statistics it is very risky, I think itâs quite easy to discount how much of what you achieve is down to luck.
The media is particularly bad for this, you will never hear them say two guys get lucky and create Google, it doesnât make a good story, but they were lucky, lucky to go to have educated parents, lucky to go to the right schools, lucky to have an interest in computer science, lucky to graduate at a point where the internet was taking off, lucky that Alta Vista was struggling, lucky that Microsoftâs eye was off the ball, and so on.
Great article. Itâs also a great way to sell startup consulting: a little honest whistle blowing
It works on my machine!
Andy, must have been a temporary glitch b/c it works for me now. (I did try it twice before