For start-ups to succeed, leaders? style must evolve

With layoffs an everyday occurrence, and venture capital drying up faster than the Big Thompson River in August, entrepreneurs have to be ever more vigilant to make their businesses survive and thrive.

A big hurdle to that and a classic problem facing many who start their own companies is successfully evolving their enterprises from start-ups to established, well-planned firms. Often the biggest obstacle to this transformation is the entrepreneur.

The attributes of a successful entrepreneur — someone who can bootstrap a company from nothing to something on precious few resources, someone who longs for autonomy, a problem-solver who likes to take responsibility…