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Stay Hungry: 3 Ways to Reawaken Your Entrepreneurial Drive on OPEN Forum
The tedium of owning a business can get to even the most die-hard entrepreneur. Use these tricks to get your passion back and be re-inspired.
1. Value Trivial Motivations
2. You, Here and Now
3. “Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish!”
Click here to read more on these suggestions to help re-start your business drive and invest your heart and soul into every project and task.
(via Stay Hungry: 3 Ways to Reawaken Your Entrepreneurial Drive | | The New OPEN ForumThe New OPEN Forum)
The 99% Success Formula on Inc.com
1. Know where you’re starting from (A).
2. Know where you want to be (B).
3. Build a plan to get from A to B.
4. Take massive action based on that plan.
5. Observe whether you’re closer to B.
6. If the plan is working, double down on step 4.
7. If the plan isn’t working, go back to step 3.
Why It Pays to Be Humble by Gary Vaynerchuk on OPEN Forum
These days, starting a new company, pivoting or bringing your existing company into the tech field is common fare for the small-business owner. In this video, expert and experienced entrepreneur Gary Vaynerchuk offers his best advice on how to succeed when you’re entering unknown territory. Hint: it’s much more discreet than you’d think.
(via Why It Pays to Be Humble | | The New OPEN ForumThe New OPEN Forum)
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Funders and Founders based this infographic on the characteristics of Jeff Bezos, Larry Page, Sergey Brin, Larry Ellison, Dell and many other successful entrepreneurs.
Do you fit this entrepreneurial archetype?
(Via Visual.ly)
You used to have a revenue plan, and you’d execute to the plan because it was written down. When it didn’t work out, you’d fire people. Now, we fire the plan.” - Steve Blank, serial entrepreneur and business school professor
The Skills Most Entrepreneurs Lack
“Entrepreneurs are a unique group of people, but they behave in patterns. In fact, as I recently wrote here on HBR, my firm’s research shows that most serial entrepreneurs display persuasion, leadership, personal accountability, goal orientation, and interpersonal skills. But in that same study, we also discovered a set of skills they do not possess.”
According to HBR, most serial entrepreneurs lack the skills to manage themselves, plan and organize, problem solve (analytically) and are not empathetic. But with this knowledge, business starters can train themselves to be even more successful by strengthening these weaknesses.
10 Skills You Need to Be the Next Great Entrepreneur
1. Seeing the big picture
2. Hunger to achieve
3. Courage
4. Functional competence
5. Prioritization and tradeoffs
6. A motivator of people
7. Decision-making
8. Adaptability
9. Initiative
10. Top down management style
(via 10 Skills You Need to Be the Next Great Entrepreneur | Inc.com)
(Via Funders and Founders)
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