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The Eight Habits Of Extremely Successful Entrepreneurs (a brief excerpts below)
[ Source: Forbes Entrepreneurs 10/27/2013 @ 7:00AM |85,972 views Contributor Paul B. Brown]
1. Look at How They Think, Not at What They Do.
Put simply, in the face of an unknown future, entrepreneurs act. They deal with uncertainty not by trying to analyze it, or planning for every contingency, or predicting what the outcomes will be. Instead, they act, learn from what they find, and act again.
2. They Start with a Market Need.
Ideas are easy—I bet you can come up with 10 new product or service ideas within five minutes right now, if you had to. And because new ideas are plentiful, they are not worth very much. As with anything else, if there is a glut—of ideas, in this case—the value goes down.
3. Don’t Set Out to Be Rich.
The best entrepreneurs don’t have making a fortune as their goal, as they start off. Wealth is just (an extremely pleasant) byproduct.
4. Marketing. (Psst. Compete Differently)
The conventional wisdom—find a niche; zig when others zag—is right, but not particularly helpful. It lacks, to be kind, specificity. Far better is to describe what the best entrepreneurs do and that is “compete differently.”
5. Financing.
This is perhaps the biggest area people fail to understand. With all the attention paid to venture capitalists, there is a mistaken impression that the best entrepreneurs begin their companies with millions of dollars in start up financing. That simply isn’t true. The actual number is $109,416, according to the Kauffman Foundation, and that figure includes the (relatively few) companies, such as biotech firms, that needs millions to begin. Sure, $109,416 isn’t chicken feed, but the figure is not particularly daunting. Why is it so relatively low? It relates back to the ways that the best entrepreneurs think about starting their companies. Since they are taking small steps, they only need sufficient financing to accomplish the next one.
6. Team Building.
Yes, of course, the company founder needs to delegate early. You can try to micromanage but there are four large obstacles if you do:
--The business will never grow bigger than one person (you, the CEO) can handle effectively;
--Your company won’t be able to move very quickly. Since everything will have to flow through you, you will create a bottleneck;
--You won’t get the best ideas out of your people. Once they understand the company is set up so everything revolves around you, your employees are not going to take the time to develop their best ideas. “Why should I,” they’ll ask. “He is just going to do what he wants anyway.” And
--It’s exhausting.
7. They play to their strengths.
The biggest surprise, when it comes to people, is that the best entrepreneurs find a Yin to their Yang, someone who offsets their weakness and compliments their strengths. This allows them to concentrate on what they do best, leaving the things they are not good at to someone else.
8. Turning Obstacles Into Assets.
I am not big on clichés like “every time God closes a door he opens a window,” or “there are no problems, only opportunities.” But the best entrepreneurs believe and act as if everything is a gift. Well, maybe not every single thing imaginable. But assuming that everything is a gift is a good way of looking at the problems and surprises you’ll encounter in any endeavor, such as getting a new venture off the ground, obtaining buy-in from your boss, or launching a new product line in an ultra-competitive market.
For complete artcle >>>> http://www.forbes.com/sites/actiontrumpseverything/2013/10/27/the-eight-habits-of-extremely-successful-entrepreneurs/?goback=%2Egde_135374_member_5800210685451329540#%21
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