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Over Eager
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Venture Gambler
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Cautious Ignorant Venturer
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New Entrepreneur
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Under-equipped
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Intuitive Expert
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SB Expert
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Dreamer
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Resource Poor
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Classic Expert Entrepreneur
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Institutional Expert
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Inventor
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Apprentice
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In Over Their Head
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Cautious Backer(Angel)
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Armchair Quarterback
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The Intuitive Expert is one of only four entrepreneurial types which belong in the expert or target zone. The key attributes or characteristics that distinguish you as an expert in venturing are intuition, desire and resources such as cash, contacts, infrastructure, technology, etc.. You also have a specialized understanding of venturing, though likely in a very specific field or industry. Your discernment capabilities are especially valuable to an entrepreneurial team, where you can generally tell if a new venture is “on” or “off” course. You can also look at an entrepreneurial venture and determine whether the conditions within the business and surrounding it, fit the Entrepreneurial Success Script.
But Intuitive Expert should be wary of venturing outside their domain or area of extraordinary expertise. Once they are beyond their limits, they become the Venture Gambler entrepreneurial profile type. Another weak point with Intuitive Expert arises when they are dealing with information that is irregular, uneven or unbalanced. Without consciously realizing it, they can find themselves fighting fires that could have been avoided y consciously applying an Entrepreneurial Success Script.
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Steve Jobs (February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011) was an unlikely entrepreneur with a storied past who dropped out of Reed College after only six month of enrollment. He continued to audit classes and sleep on a friend’s floor in order to continue his education.
His professional career began at Atari where he started as a technician. Soon thereafter, he left Atari to go to India in hopes of achieving spiritual enlightenment. Seven months later, he returned to the United States taking a liking to LSD and Zen Buddhism. Although he carried those counterculture traits along with him throughout his career, he ultimately rejoined mainstream society.
Atari took him back, where his impact was immediately realized as he joined up with Steve Wozniak to design and implement superior technologies. This relationship led to a startup in Jobs’ garage with Wozniak. Jobs’ business acumen and Wozniak’s engineering prowess blossomed into the creation of the Apple computer. Although Apple was not an immediate success, it remained competitive with IBM and gained notoriety among the computing community as a technologically superior product. Because a difference of opinions in company direction, Jobs was fired from Apple in 1985.
In 1986 Jobs purchased The Graphics Group, which was later named Pixar. In a partnership with Disney Inc., Jobs was the executive director of the blockbuster Toy Story. He parlayed his success at Pixar to return to Apple once again in 1986. As the CEO, Jobs’ tenacity engineered a revolution, changing the computing landscape forever. His unmatched work ethic and stubborn personality drove Apple to create the iPod, iTunes, iPad, iPhone, iMac and other technologically intuitive products. Stricken with debilitating health issues Jobs resigned his position in August of 2011. Pancreatic cancer ultimately took Jobs October 5, 2011. Most people fittingly learned of his passing on their iPhone. Jobs' intuition, drive, and business resources qualified him aptly as an Intuitive Expert.
