The reaction to my series of 100 Attributes of a Successful Entrepreneur has been incredible. Thanks for all your notes, emails, and comments. Some back story: like most of you, I have read countless books and stories from successful entrepreneurs. They have motivated me and helped me as I have gone down this path. However, a lot of the advice in these books did not ring true. It reminds me of the time when I asked a very young investment banker, just what he would do to solve the problem he had so graciously identified for me. “Just take corrective action,” he said. No kidding. Sometimes what we need are more specific ideas. Those are what I was trying to remember.

My list is NOT a complete list. I would be very interested in hearing about your own ‘learnings,’–those things that you have learned along your own entrepreneural path.

You can help others by participating in this Entrepreneur Meme. Here is how this works:

The Entrepreneur Meme: Deadline, Friday, December 28, 2007.

Step 1. Write a post “Another characteristic or attribute of an entrepreneur…” You can make it a short burst or comment on one of my characteristics (there are 100 of them, you must agree on at least one!!), write one yourself that I missed (lots of them) or relate a personal story that illustrates how an entrepreneur did something great. For example, when you read through my list did you think about to a specific similar thing that happened to you. Tell us about it.

Step 2. Tell your visitors what you are doing. Please put a link back to this post so they can see what you are doing. Or email me at gl at jobdig.com to let me know you have participated.

Step 3. For every link I get back, I will donate $1 to charity, up to $500. If there are not 500 links, I will round up to the nearest 100 and donate that amount.

Step 4. Tell all your friends too. Put links to them at the bottom of your posting, maybe they will join in this cause to help entrepreneurs and a charity too. Email them this posting and your own so they know what we are doing and that it is for two good causes.

Here are some of the people I am personally inviting to participate.

Toby at Diggings,

Karen at WorkingGirl,

Paul at MNheadhunter.com

Paul Epps at Eppsnet

Robert at MiddleZoneMusings

Penelope Trunk at Penelope Trunk

Olivier at f360photo

Robin at BrainBased Biz

Dr Ellen Weber at BrainBased Business

Heather at http://blogs.msdn.com/heatherleigh/

Mike Dewitt at SpookyAction

Robert May at Business Pundit

Alexander at Positive Sharing

Harry Joiner at marketing headhunter.

Valeri Maltoni at Conversation Agent

Pamela Slim at Escape From Cubicle Nation

David Maister at David Maister.com

Robert Sutton at Stanford

Haneberg’s Managecraft

George Lenard’s Employment Blawg

Zinger’s Slacker Manager

Dan Schawbel’s personal branding blog

Smartest guy in the room

HR Manager here.

Evil HR lady

Cameron Martel at career ramblings

On startups

Zoli at zoliblog

Guy K at his blog

Nivia at his own blog

Ross Mayfield at Ross

Plus special invites to Nick G.

Ask the Headhunter, Nick Corcodilos

Scott Adams of Dilbert fame

John Maeda at his simplicity blog.

The Brandbuilder’s blog

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