Paris School of Entrepreneurship
Applied Entrepreneurial Thinking · Short Intensive Program
Discovery Profile
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Applied Entrepreneurial Thinking
Discover your
founder profile
Before your intensive begins, this questionnaire maps how you think, build, and lead — so every session is designed specifically around your venture and your way of working. There are no right answers. Specificity is everything.
The six profiles — which one sounds like you?
01 · Visionary Builder
02 · Relentless Builder
03 · Strategic Architect
04 · Magnetic Connector
05 · Impact Maker
06 · Precision Optimizer
What you are about to discover — 6 dimensions, 6 profiles & your ETQ score explained
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This questionnaire measures you across six dimensions of entrepreneurial thinking. Your scores across these dimensions determine your founder profile — a characterisation of how you naturally operate as a builder, and where the highest-leverage opportunities for growth are. Both the dimensions and the profiles are designed to be useful, not flattering. Honesty in your answers produces a more accurate and therefore more valuable result.
Visionary Thinking
How you generate ideas and orient toward the future. Do you create new categories or improve existing ones? How comfortable are you with uncertainty at the idea stage?
Execution Drive
How you convert thinking into action. Speed, bias for movement, tolerance for imperfection, and your relationship with planning versus doing.
Commercial Instinct
How naturally you think about customers, value, and money. Customer clarity, pricing confidence, and your orientation toward the commercial engine of your venture.
Resilience & Adaptability
How you process setbacks, challenge, and failure. Speed of recovery, relationship with risk, and your ability to reframe difficulty as information.
People & Persuasion
How you build, influence, and lead through relationships. Whether people are your primary medium or your supporting resource.
Strategic Clarity
How clearly you see and can articulate the logic of your venture. Analytical rigor, systems thinking, and ability to translate complexity into a coherent plan.
Entrepreneurial Thinking Quotient — ETQ
A single score that maps where you are now as a founder
Your six dimension scores combine into your ETQ — a composite score out of 100 that gives you a clear, honest picture of your current entrepreneurial thinking profile. It is not a measure of intelligence or potential. It is a starting point — a baseline that your programme is designed to move. A high ETQ does not guarantee success. A lower ETQ does not predict failure. What it does is tell you and your coach exactly where to focus.
Example bands:
40–54 Early Stage
55–69 Developing
70–84 Advanced
85–100 High-Fluency
The Six Founder Profiles — which one sounds like you?
Read through these before you begin. You may already have a sense of which one you are. The questionnaire will either confirm your instinct or reveal something more interesting. Either outcome is useful.
Profile 01
The Visionary Builder
"I see the destination before others see the road."
Driven by original, unconventional ideas
Energised by uncertainty and open horizons
Struggles to convert vision into repeatable systems
Most alive at the start of something new
Profile 02
The Relentless Builder
"I learn more from shipping than from planning."
High bias for action — moves before others plan
Resilient under pressure and setbacks
Risk: building fast in the wrong direction
Thrives when momentum is high
Profile 03
The Strategic Architect
"I design before I build. The structure is the strategy."
Thinks in systems, frameworks, and long sequences
Analytical rigour that others find reassuring
Risk: architecture without enough market contact
Strongest when complexity needs to be ordered
Profile 04
The Magnetic Connector
"People are my medium. I build through relationships."
Builds trust and coalitions quickly and naturally
Network is a genuine competitive asset
Risk: underpricing and under-systemising
At their best when building with and through people
Profile 05
The Impact Maker
"The mission is the strategy. Purpose is my edge."
Driven by something larger than commercial return
Attracts believers — customers, team, advisors
Risk: mission without a viable financial model
Most credible when values and model align completely
Profile 06
The Precision Optimizer
"I don't invent. I make what exists far better."
Sees exactly what is broken in existing solutions
Quality and domain expertise are the differentiator
Risk: difficulty explaining why different, not just better
Strongest in premium, credibility-driven markets
MBTI Alignment — if you know your type
If you have taken the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, the table below shows how PSE profiles tend to align with MBTI types. This is a tendency, not a rule — your actual profile is determined by your answers, not your personality type. Use this as a thinking prompt, not a prediction.
| PSE Profile | Closest MBTI | Why they align |
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| Visionary Builder | ENTP · INTJ | Future-oriented, idea-generative, comfortable with systems and long-range thinking. Both types are drawn to novel problems over execution detail. |
| Relentless Builder | ESTP · ENTJ | Action-first, pragmatic, energised by tangible progress. ESTPs act instinctively; ENTJs drive outcomes through force of will. Both prioritise momentum. |
| Strategic Architect | INTJ · ISTJ | Analytical, structured, and deliberate. Strong preference for planning before acting and building systems that can be trusted to perform consistently. |
| Magnetic Connector | ENFJ · ESFJ | People-first thinkers who build through relationships and read social dynamics intuitively. Motivated by harmony, shared purpose, and collective progress. |
| Impact Maker | INFJ · ENFP | Values-driven and mission-led. INFJs are visionary and principled; ENFPs are passionate and possibility-oriented. Both are motivated by meaning over mechanics. |
| Precision Optimizer | ISTJ · ISFJ | Detail-conscious, quality-driven, and improvement-focused. Motivated by doing things correctly and building on what is proven rather than starting from zero. |
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The Venture
Where you are and what you are building. The more specific and honest, the more directly useful your programme will be.
Question 01 of 28
Where is your venture right now?
Choose the description that most honestly matches today — not where you hope to be.
Question 02 of 28
Which space does your venture operate in?
Select all that apply.
Question 03 of 28
What feels hardest about building this right now?
The thing you keep coming back to. What keeps you up at night about it?
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Question 05 of 28
Why is now the moment you are doing this?
What changed — in your life, your context, or your thinking — that brought you here now?
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How You Think
These questions map your natural cognitive style — how you generate ideas, process uncertainty, and make decisions under pressure.
Question 06 of 28
When you have a new idea you believe in, what do you do first?
Question 07 of 28
Your ideas are most often born from…
Question 08 of 28
How do you relate to uncertainty and risk in your work?
Move the slider to where you honestly sit — not where you wish you were.
Question 09 of 28
When you need to make an important decision with incomplete information, you most naturally…
Question 10 of 28
When a project has no clear path forward, you tend to…
Question 11 of 28
How honest are you being, right now, about the assumptions underneath your venture?
This is not a test of optimism. It is a question about self-awareness.
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How You Build
Your natural execution style, your strengths as a builder, and the gaps you know you need to address.
Question 12 of 28
When you work on something you genuinely believe in, you are most likely to…
Question 13 of 28
Which of these comes most naturally to you as a builder?
Choose your top two — the things you genuinely do well, not the things you aspire to.
Question 14 of 28
Where do you most honestly feel out of your depth or underprepared?
Choose your top two gaps. Honest answers here shape your session focus significantly.
Question 15 of 28
Your natural working pace is…
Question 16 of 28
Given a new goal, you spend most of your time…
Question 17 of 28
In one or two sentences: what do you believe you are genuinely better at than most people?
Not what you want to be good at. What you actually are — the thing that comes easily to you and is difficult for others.
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Motivation & Identity
What drives you. What holds you back. What you are ultimately building toward — and why it matters personally.
Question 18 of 28
At the deepest level, what is driving you to build this venture?
There is no noble answer and no wrong one. What is actually true for you?
Question 19 of 28
What is the fear you are most likely carrying about this venture?
Question 20 of 28
In five years, when this venture has worked, what does your life and role look like?
Question 21 of 28
When something important fails or goes significantly wrong, you typically…
Question 22 of 28
Tell us about your professional background. What experience, domain knowledge, or unfair advantage do you bring to this venture?
This shapes which case studies and examples your coach uses throughout the programme.
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Market & Money
The final section maps your commercial instincts — how you think about customers, value, and what success looks like financially.
Question 23 of 28
How clearly can you describe your first customer right now?
Question 24 of 28
The problem your venture solves is primarily…
Question 25 of 28
How confident are you right now in what to charge?
Question 26 of 28
What does a successful outcome look like in three years?
Question 27 of 28
How are you thinking about funding this venture?
Question 28 of 28
What would make this programme a genuine turning point for you?
What is the one thing you need to leave with — a decision made, a document built, a realisation reached — that would change what you do the following week?
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Your Founder Profile
The Visionary Builder
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Entrepreneurial Thinking Quotient
Calculating your ETQ…
Your ETQ is the composite of your six dimension scores. It maps where you are now — not where you will be after the programme.
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Your Six Dimensions
Your Profile Analysis
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How to Leverage Your Profile
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What You Excel at Building
How your four sessions will be shaped
Based on your profile and your identified gaps, here is the focus your programme will take.
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Entrepreneurial Thinking & Business Model Design
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Identifying & Creating Demand
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Financial Management & Fundraising
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Marketing, Communication & Launch
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—All Six Profiles — How Yours Compares
Your profile is highlighted. Reading the others helps you understand what makes your profile distinct — and who the ideal collaborators, co-founders, or complementary hires might be for someone with your configuration.
Profile 01
The Visionary Builder
"I see the destination before others see the road."
Driven by original ideas. Energised by uncertainty. Strongest at founding-stage narrative and vision. Risk: converting vision into repeatable execution.
MBTI: ENTP · INTJ
Profile 02
The Relentless Builder
"I learn more from shipping than from planning."
High bias for action. Thrives on momentum. Strongest in speed-to-market scenarios. Risk: building fast in the wrong direction.
MBTI: ESTP · ENTJ
Profile 03
The Strategic Architect
"I design before I build. Structure is strategy."
Thinks in systems and frameworks. Strongest in complex B2B and process-heavy ventures. Risk: architecture without enough market contact.
MBTI: INTJ · ISTJ
Profile 04
The Magnetic Connector
"People are my medium. I build through relationships."
Builds trust and coalitions fast. Strongest in community-led and marketplace ventures. Risk: underpricing and under-systemising.
MBTI: ENFJ · ESFJ
Profile 05
The Impact Maker
"The mission is the strategy. Purpose is my edge."
Driven by meaning over commercial return. Attracts believers. Strongest in mission-led sectors. Risk: mission without a viable financial model.
MBTI: INFJ · ENFP
Profile 06
The Precision Optimizer
"I don't invent. I make what exists far better."
Quality and domain expertise as the differentiator. Strongest in premium, credibility-driven markets. Risk: explaining why different, not just better.
MBTI: ISTJ · ISFJ
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