What makes an entrepreneur tick?
Perhaps the better question is – what kind of leader makes the best entrepreneur? After all, startups are fast paced, small, and ever-morphing, which means it takes certain type of person to help make things succeed.
Here’s a look at what a founder should be able to do:
- Development
- Write Code
- Build a server
- Design a splash page
- Assemble an email blast
- Scale
- Analytics
- Develop and track a funnel
- Make decisions off cohort tracking
- Become a Google analytics expert
- Marketing
- Write a blog post
- Deliver a keynote
- Build Links
- Conduct customer interviews
- Network
- Segment a market
- Legal
- Understand a term sheet
- Recruit and Train
- Train an intern
- Hire A Players
- Replace B Players
- Sales
- Cold call C level executives
- Writing
- Write a novel
- Raise Money
- Bootstrap
- Build an advisory board
- Tell an investor they’ve lost all their money
- Command a board room
- Financial
- Analyze a balance sheet
- Make a budget
- Ignore a budget
- Balance the books
- Personal
- Stay up 36 hours straight
- Lead
- Follow
- Find a mentor
- Stay creative
- Act alone
Scared yet? Well, here’s an infographic that outlines the necessary skill sets and mindsets needed by a startup entrepreneur to bring an idea from conception to fruition:
[Infographic credit: Source: TopManagementDegrees.com]
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