Skills, Traits, and Characteristics of a Successful Entrepreneur
Anonymous Author
University of the People
Entrepreneurship 1 3303 Abstract
Skills, traits or characteristics are essential ingredients in being a successful entrepreneur. Although these ingredients are numerous, an entrepreneur should develop the ones that are relevant to becoming successful. This paper will first examine skills, traits, and characteristics that are more important to have as an entrepreneur. Then, we researched and explored entrepreneurs who co-founded an intriguing online business that has gravitated to other countries and finally, we examine how they started the business and what they are doing to remain successful in their entrepreneurial venture.
Skills, Traits, and Characteristics of a Successful Entrepreneur
Which of the skills, traits or characteristics of entrepreneurs do you think would be the most important to have?
There are numerous skills, traits, and characteristics of entrepreneurs that would be most important to have. However, while it may not be necessary to have all to be a successful entrepreneur, the following skills, traits, and characteristics would be the most important to have.
Personal Characteristics: Under this category, it would be important for an entrepreneur to have optimism, the hopeful feeling that all is going to turn out well. An entrepreneur should have a vision, the ability to envisage a compelling future and articulate it to others. An
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There are basically three personal qualities of entrepreneurs. It should be known that the personal qualities of the entrepreneurs alone cannot guarantee success and therefore the, seven personal characteristics of entrepreneurs as follows below should be considered as they help to blend with the personal qualities and make a business success.
2. Do you recognize any of the entrepreneurial personality characteristics in yourselves? Which ones? Do you think it’s possible for a person to develop the characteristics that he or she lacks? Why or why not?
What do entrepreneurs do that distinguishes them from any other person involved in business? Why is it that personality characteristics may be good predictors of who will be a successful entrepreneur?
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