More than 5,000 people have already taken the recent "Are You An Entrepreneur? " survey, adapted from a Kauffman FastTrac questionnaire and posted on forbes.com this summer.
Perhaps not surprisingly, passion is the number one reason for wanting to start a company. Networking skills and business acumen are areas in which these aspiring entrepreneurs most want to improve.
What did survey respondents see as their barriers to entry? Money, money, money -– and figuring out how to get started, Kauffman said. Topping the responses to a question about the "biggest obstacle to starting my own company," 36 percent of aspiring founders cited financing, followed closely by "knowing where to begin" (34.7 percent). Much farther down the scale of concern were fear of failure (10.1 percent) and finding a partner (6.5 percent).
Check out the findings in this infograph.
Fortunately in South Florida, we have plenty of agencies and organizations willing to help entrepreneurs. Check out a list of them here.