- Communicate well with others - especially when articulating their concept
- Work well with others
- Delegate to team members
- Present well in front of a crowd
- Listen to their customers AND their critics
- Perform competitive and market research
- Write a business plan
- Adapt to change - (Also related, staying open and flexible)
- Being able to share their idea with others
- Set and meet goals
- Learn from failures
- Take initiative
- Bootstrap
- Network
- To focus and set priorities
- To think outside of the box
- How to put themselves in their competitors and customers shoes
- How to think ahead
- Market their product/service
- Market testing their product/service
- Be persistent (and not give up)
- Understand financial statements
- Attract and retain great people to their Team and Dream
- Inspire through vision (Also related, being a good leader)
- To dissect their behavior/motivations/strengths/weaknesses
- Wear many hats
- Continuously strive for self-improvement
- Know their marketplace inside and out
- Not sweat the small stuff
- Balance life, friends and school or family (or both)
The sites mentioned here, well most of them, solve at least one problem really well and they all have simple web addresses (URLs) that you can easily learn by heart thus saving you a trip to Google. 01. screenr.com – record movies of your desktop and send them straight to YouTube. 02. ctrlq.org/screenshots – for capturing screenshots of web pages on mobile and desktops. 03. goo.gl – shorten long URLs and convert URLs into QR codes . 04. unfurlr.come – find the original URL that’s hiding behind a short URL. 05. qClock – find the local time of a city using a Google Map . 06. copypastecharacter.com – copy special characters that aren’t on your keyboard. 07. postpost.com – a better search engine for twitter. 08. lovelycharts.com – create flowcharts, network diagrams, sitemaps, etc. 09. iconfinder.com – the best place to find icons of...
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