A few months ago I was talking to Hamdi Ulukaya, the founder of Chobani, who had attended an entrepreneurship event earlier this year. He joked that the most entrepreneurial guy at the event was the person setting up the audio-visual equipment, as he was running a business and getting stuff done. Most of the other people there were attracted to the idea of entrepreneurship, but less the ins and outs of actually gutting it out and building a business. Hamdi would know - he bought a defunct yogurt factory in rural upstate New York and worked for months developing yogurt recipes. Eventually he came up with something he was happy with, and in the next 10 years the company grew into a...
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