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Five Steps to Startup Success

Guest post by: Stephen Blakesley

Article Overview: Entrepreneurs fail at an astonishing rate, yet they keep coming. Here are 5 steps that significantly improve the rate of success.

Five Steps to Startup Success

Business startups are always challenged, in fact 8 out of 10 fail. Yet, most of the new jobs in this country come from business startups. As a serial entrepreneur myself, I am aware of the challenges new businesses face. I recognize that most anyone can start a business, but not everyone can start it, manage it, and succeed in it. A special kind of person is required in business startup situations.

I am often asked what are the most important attributes of a successful entrepreneur in a business startup situation? While there are many different qualities displayed by the hundreds of entrepreneurs I have known, there are just five that seem to consistently surface.

1. The ability to identify top people and convince them to join them in their new exciting venture
2. The ability to see that the talent of top people is utilized effectively
3. The ability to use emotions to their advantage
4. A keen sense of the most effective way to apply and leverage their talents and that of others
5. A special senseof and ability to create environments where people can be all they can

A brief, but deeper look into these five qualities of successful entrepreneurs would reveal nothing mystical about entrepreneurship, just plain old focus and persistence. It is, however, not just any focus or persistence, but focus on the right things and doing the right things even if they don't seem to be working. My best advice,for young entrepreneurs, is to recognize that people are likely to be the key to success in your startup and apersistent focus on giving what those people need to excel, will accelerate your growth.

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