Very strange attitude appears to posts that talk about the quality of the entrepreneur. Yes, of course, it's great when you have it all, but what if it is not? . Generally, when they write all these fine qualities, a feeling that people describe some super. BUT. Yes, it can be useful if you're going to get into the Fortune 500. But you look around. Many of those around you to the directors or business owners possess these qualities? . Very, very few. This does not mean that the creation of the business they are not needed, but often they can be changed by something else. So do not belong to anything as a dogma. However, I recently sent a link to some very interesting posts about the necessary qualities of an entrepreneur, which I found interesting for practical examples. All this is not about Russian realities, once again, but at least it gives an idea of how business is done in civilized countries. A little potsytiruyu:.
a. persistence. Persistence - perhaps the most important quality of entrepreneurial. This is a man who never gives up, never taking 'no' as answer. The world is filled with actors doubters who claim that something can be done, and then, when it was done, they say, ... Look at Google. Do you think anyone really believed in 1999. That the two young men who graduated from Stanford University, will take off run Yahoo!, Excite, Ask Jeeves and Lycos? . Believe me, no matter what you come up with, most venture capitalists will tell you things like ... People whom you are thinking of hiring, said he was not sure whether they should join your team, ask the landlord rent for a year in advance, as a potential partner for the development of business impact are too busy to work with you, ...
If you already have a valid startup, you know all this. But some founders have an extra quality that allows them to never give up. Sometimes it even goes so far impudence. And I see this higher dose of persistence in only one out of ten entrepreneurs with whom I encountered. If you are not one of them, then surely you know it. And your friend takes things further than you would have to do it. What do you get more from the comfort of your comfort zone and showing more persistence? .
Once I entered into a dispute with the famous venture capitalist at a meeting of. Leading asked: ... He replied: ... He is not interested ... Without hesitation, I blurted out: ... gosh. I could not even believe he said this, but it was so much felt, that the words themselves off from the mouth.
If you give up on the first letter unanswered, what you hope, going to entrepreneurs?. If you are an entrepreneur, people do not have to answer you, and it is your responsibility - politely but firmly remain in their field of vision. You no longer work in Google, Oracle, Salesforce. com or at McKinsey, where all of you to call back. You can not even imagine how important was the brand, as long as you have left it. Your customers do not care where you studied: at Stanford, Harvard or MIT. Now you do once you. Honestly, even if you were in college in Florida, according to the graph of persistence from you do not lose anything. Perseverance pays off.
A Simple Example.
When I launched my second company, I was a freshman in Silicon Valley. The previous 11 years I spent in Europe and Japan. My company was relatively unknown. We ran the cloud document management system in space, which became known as Enterprise 2. 0. It so happened that soon was to be a conference organized by a man named Ismael Galimi. He was a highly respected manager in the software and at the time also led forums for companies in this space.
It was his first conference, and prominent venture capitalists from Silicon Valley were going to participate in the. Also attended the press and various senior executives of the companies in this sector. I asked my friends from Lewis PR to introduce me to Ismael, who invited me to speak at conference. He sent me a schedule according to which I had to act on the second day in the afternoon session in a small room. Holy smoke.
I wrote to Ismael, asking about the speech on the first day and a place on the stage during a plenary session with Om Malik, Shelom Yisrael, Radzhenom Shetom (from Google), Karen Leavitt (WebEx), and by Ismael. He replied that it was impossible. I wrote him again, assuring the sincerity of his intentions and asked for more time. He was being very polite person, very politely turned me down. I asked a friend to write to him, referring to how well I speak at such meetings. I called Ismael and listed a lot of reasons why I write in an ideal situation. He said he would think, but that the stage is already full of people. - ... It seems to me to me the balance will be better ...
I asked for a meeting over breakfast to discuss this. I know that he really did not want to see me on stage, but I knew that it was very, very important that people know about me. I found the limit of the permissible limits, but did not cross it. He eventually gave up, and it was a very important session for me in the initial informing people about the project Koral. Photo above is made at the event ( the author -. Dan Farber, who writes for ZDNet. ). As a result, we Ismael became good friends and I miss him ever since I moved to Los Angeles.
Those who know me well have an idea that this is just an ordinary day in the life of Mark Sastera. Not always good at it, but it's part of my DNA. I can not help it. And this is one of the qualities for which I pay attention to entrepreneurs. Some companies are making insufficient effort. Others go beyond the limits. I would be glad to offer you the formula for the required number of assertiveness, but as I always say, is a kind of art - when you see it, then immediately learn.
And still others from the same place has it:.
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