20 Essential Skills for Startups and Entrepreneurs
HighContrast offers insight into the question of why peeople tend to thing that ‘Entrepreneurs know how to operate in uncertain environments‘. His thoughts are split into three streams: Luck and timing; Gut Sense; and Iterative Improvement.
OnStartups, takes ‘8 Startup Insights inspired by the mega mind of Seth Godin‘. These include: resist becoming average; let your users talk to each other; beware the need for for ciritical mass. Various people offer practical experience and lessons — many of which they learnt the hard way!
- ‘3 Startup lessons I know now, but wish I’d known then‘ via Anita
- ‘Here’s how not to run a startup.‘ via BrassTack
- ‘Postmortems on two failed startups from their founders‘ via LightSpeed
- ‘7 Must reads for Developers turned Entrepreneurs‘ via Brian Haveri
- ‘What Startups can learn from Haruki Murakami via ReadWriteWeb
- ‘Sucess is easy‘ via TheFreeStyleEntrpreneur
- ‘Key actions steps to build a succesful internet startup‘ by Robin Good
- Startup Hacks: Seven Ideas for Building your team, via Mashable
Of course, no matter what your idea or strategy, you might not actually have the personal characteristics to run your own startup. So finally, I leave you with two links: ‘Are you entreprenuer material‘ and ‘Are you tough enough to make money online?’
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