40 Reasons Why Most Entrepreneurs Do Not Know What They Are Doing

Wed Feb 25 2026 at 06:00 pm to 08:00 pm UTC-08:00

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IE Los Angeles
Publisher/HostIE Los Angeles
40 Reasons Why Most Entrepreneurs Do Not Know What They Are Doing
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Why in the age of knowledge are startups falling short?
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"Entrepreneurship is risky mainly because so few of the so-called entrepreneurs know what they are doing,” wrote Peter Drucker in his 1985 book Innovation and Entrepreneurship. 



  



We live in an age where access to knowledge—through books, podcasts, and LLMs—is at an all-time high, yet more startups are not translating into more scaleups. Why is this? 



  



Professor Joe Haslam of IE Business School is a six-time co-founder with a research focus on how startups and SMEs scale. Join him as he presents 40 Reasons Why Most Entrepreneurs Do Not Know What They Are Doing


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