Orange County Register

Brad Sugars, speaker, book author, business coach and owner of ActionCoach, got interesting results to a poll on his blog.

He asked his visitors why they started a business. Here are the results:

Source: Brad Sugars

In this group, wanting to fulfill personal goals edged out wanting to be the boss. I don’t know if it’s amusing or sad that 1.3% don’t know why they started their business.

What do you think?

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