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Learn to self-motivate and self-start because there’s no one to watch your back when you are an entrepreneur. You should also be money wise. You will need to take some risks financially. But, whatever job you are doing now, you need to start saving so you can fund your entrepreneurial idea. Learn how to sell and perfect your ability to persuade. Entrepreneurs don’t make money by starting a business alone, they need to sell!
Try to work for a current entrepreneur and get some experience and behind the scenes knowledge. The best way to learn what an entrepreneur does is to shadow or work for an entrepreneur. Prepare yourself by networking to build your contact lists.
Success, visibility, and funds come through your networks. You will need to learn to build contacts. Lots of them. Work 80 hours a week if you have to.
Entrepreneurship is hard work. There is no such thing as work-life-balance in entrepreneurship, especially if you’re doing a startup. Try working double a week! This isn’t like being a freelancer where you should be paid for every moment you are working for someone else’s cause, this is a different kind of a pursuit.
Learn to research and expand your mind quickly. Entrepreneurs need to be able to research contacts, competition, leads efficiently and quickly. Doing so will help them keep ahead of their game. Don’t forget also, knowing how to build an audience is crucial. How do I get the message out? How do I engage my customers? Customers provide the revenues.
Learn what your strengths and weaknesses are. Build on your strengths. Find ways to minimize your weakness. Put your back against a wall and prepare to fight for what you want out of your entrepreneurial dreams.
Are you prepared to battle every day? Because every day is a challenge and you need to keep laser focus every day. However you see fit, it is important you understand most all of the intricacies of how a business operates and gain the necessary skills to at least get your business up off the ground.
You can do that by taking business or certificate courses at your school. Taking online courses, doing a business for yourself, and earning a related degree from a business school are all ways you can get skills. However, you don’t need to do all of this.
But if you want training and to perfect your skills there are choices you can take advantage of. Joining entrepreneurship boot camps and programs are other ways you can get started.
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Serial Entrepreneur/investor since 2013.
South Africa.
