What every entrepreneur need?

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What you need in entrepreneurship?

And please don't tell me the "yes but you should work with professionals" story that when you're just starting out you don't have the money to hire dedicated experts.

Any entrepreneur starting out plays every role in the company, whether they want to or not.                                                                         

100 skills every entrepreneur should know.                                                                                                                                                   100 skills I've acquired without often realising they're needed:                                  

1. Cleaning up - who sweeps your offices/shop at first?

2. Fitting things (handyman) - who fits desks, light bulbs, when something breaks etc?

3. Managing conflict - it often arises in a team.

4. Motivating people in the team - we don't always feel like working.

5. Managing relationships with family - they need to understand why you are busy all the time.

6. Managing your relationship with your partner - it is said that deciding who you share your life with is the most important decision. If that person doesn't support you, your romantic life  can never be successful.

7. Managing relationships with friends - you also need a social life.

8. Psychologist - sometimes clients or people in your team have challenges that are totally different from the work you do. 

9. Coach - good questions, asked at the right time.

10. Trainer - who trains your first people?

11. Lawyer - don't think you have money at the start of a legal department.

12. Legal - same as 11...

13. Primary accounting - same as 11 and you will always need to know it, no matter how big the company is.

14. Maths - especially arithmetic. The world's biggest CEO operates with 4 functions (addition, subtraction, division, multiplication).

15. English language - grammar in particular, you're not going to write emails and offers with grammatical mistakes.

16. Diplomacy - especially when making new collaborations.

17. Making offers - The art of deal...

18. Product development - you are the one who fixes the product and servicing at the start.

19. Customer care - take care of customers and develop a good relationship with them.

20. Customer service - make sure you solve their concrete problems that arise while they are using your product/service

21. Marketing - don't think that someone will promote you at first instead of you. It is 100% your responsibility

22. Copywriting - promote yourself and make yourself easily understood through writing.

23. Speaking in front of the camera - you need video promotion. And who better to start talking about your business than you?

24. Edit your videos - It's your duty! 

25. Social Media - posting constantly online.

26. Make various visuals - don't have money for graphic designers, do it yourself through Canva and other tools.

27. Know lots of online tools: google drive, excel, word, gmail, skype, zoom, google meets etc.

28. Learn new apps and tools quickly - for efficiency you always need other things like.

29. Know how to make paid ads - FB Ads, Instagram Ads, YouTube Ads, Google Ads, TikTok Ads.

30. Email marketing - you don't just leave your business to social media.

31. Project Management - someone has to organise all the tasks too.

32. Individual time management - know how to organise yourself.

33. Time Management for the team - help them get organised.

34. Being energetic - in business it's not cool for the leader to be low energy.

35. Be persuasive - sometimes you have to persuade other people.

36. Be cool, funny, charismatic - you don't want to be a bad boss.

37. Spiritual - if you can - don't just stick to pragmatic things. People also want the higher meaning of things from you.

38. Have vision - without it your business goes nowhere.

39. Know how to set and work with concrete goals - I don't think I need to explain why.

40. Being responsible - without that you won't be serious.

41. Creative - of course, without that, how do you come up with new ideas?

42. Good salesman - very important if you want to make money from the business too. If you can't sell what you offer either, how can you expect someone else to?

43. Reluctant - if you keep everything to yourself you won't be a good leader.

44. Leadership - you only have your team to manage.

45. Delegation - if you don't do it, you will only work yourself from morning till morning.

46. Knowing how to evaluate - if you don't do this you'll end up with weak people in your team.

47. Firing - unfortunately this is also your job. And if possible, let the man leave happy afterwards.

48. Determined - so you don't get very far. 

49. Resilient - you just can't give up at the first challenge.

50. Be a good mentor - people want to have you as an example.

51. Have confidence in yourself - if you don't have it in you, clearly others won't either.

52. Assess the risks - otherwise you will make too many bad decisions.

53. Choose the best - How many good decisions did you make today?

54. Find solutions faster than you find problems.

55. Passionate about your field - how could you not be passionate about your field?

56. Educable - you need to constantly educate yourself, otherwise you remain mediocre...

57. Financial - good with numbers because without them it's a disaster.

58. Analytical - if you don't know how to analyse results you can't grow.

59. Courageus - without courage you can't make new decisions.

60. Budgeting - well if you don't budget, you run out of money.

61. Hiring - in the beginning you will definitely only hire people.

62. Open minded - if you're not open minded and see things with a horse's head, you certainly won't develop things.

63. Build relationships and keep them long term.

64. Know how to choose business partners.

65. Good investor - if you don't make investments, you'll stay the rat race

66. Good listener - often people just come to you to complain and you need to listen. Sometimes it's good to listen to them to discover new ideas.

67. Being present - a kind of mindfulness applied to business.

68. Networking - you need to make new relationships.

69. Negotiation - often needs to negotiate things.

70. Being adaptable - in business things are constantly changing, so your business needs to adapt too...

71. Flexible - in business there is no black or white, right or wrong, sometimes the right solution is somewhere in the middle.

72. Discover talented people - when you're starting out you don't have the money to hire superstars straight away, sometimes you have to discover them yourself and train them until they become stars.

73. Public speaking - you have meetings, you have conferences, you speak in front of your team etc.

74. Customer loyalty - just don't think it's enough just to attract them to you. They also need to work with you long term.

75. Pricing - you need to set the prices of your products or services.

76. Competitive analysis - see how you can become better than them.

77. Content creation - to educate the market and attract new customers.

78. Branding - to know how you want your company to be seen in the market.

79. Customer feedback analysis - to improve your product.

80. Attracting influencers.                                    
 81. Optimise different conversion rates - whether we are talking about online marketing or any kind of sequential actions.

82. KPIs - what you don't measure you can't improve. Without KPIs your business will never evolve.

83. Organisation chart and hierarchy - if you don't know how to build it you will never have a real business.

84. Roles and responsibilities - what role does everyone in the company have and what are they responsible for?

85. Writing procedures - how to do each task in your firm.

86. Crisis management - things don't always go well. Sometimes crises happen.

87. Database management - gather data and information that needs to be managed. A company without a database is worthless.

88. Laws - well, if you don't know the laws of the country where you operate you can easily become illegal...

89. Forecasting - both financial and workload.

90. Know how to prioritise - as you can see there's a ton to do. If you get tired of skills, see how badly you get tired of concrete tasks when there are hundreds.

91. Inventory - know what you have in the firm and where everything is.

92. Taxes - what taxes you have to pay and how they affect your business.

93. Quality control - when you are growing your business you need to make sure all customers get the same experience.

94. Emotional intelligence - if you've been annoyed so far, just reading them isn't very good.

95. A/B testing - both in marketing and everything else.

96. Organisational culture - because you definitely want a cool and motivated team that speaks well of the company.

97. Security - sometimes it's online, sometimes it's physical but you need to keep it in mind because not all people are well intentioned.

98. Sustainable thinking - I suspect you also want a business that does good for the world, not just makes money.

99. Morality - we usually have this from birth but we also need to be able to make decisions based on it.

100. Be proud - in the end, after you learn all these things, put them into practice you also need to be proud, that's the only reason I suspect you started your own business in the first place.

We've come to the end! :)

Life as an entrepreneur is certainly not an easy life, but there is a lot of satisfaction in it! 

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