Article #1: What Entrepreneurs Can Learn from Artists & Article #2: Are Artists Entrepreneurs? discuss the new roles of artists in businesses, and important characteristics that artist share that help drive them to make art. Artists can learn from entrepreneurs how to market themselves and their work to differentiate themselves from other artists, and how to establish connections to other artists so that they could make works bigger than any individual.  Artists in a way are entrepreneurs in that they go out and try to sell to others their unique style in the arts, and convince the consumer that they are worth their time. Of the characteristics that the first article attribute to artist, while not all artists have all 12, individually 1,2,3,5,7,10, and 11 are the key characteristics to have with 11 being the most important. I believe that another characteristic that is a desire to grow, otherwise one might would end up making the content and become content.