What are the skills necessary to being an entrepreneur and running a successful business? Do you have to have lots of ideas? Having a rich uncle or finding capital? Taking risks? Work obsessively? Have management skills. Maybe, to all of these, but not necessarily.
Mike Southon, writing in the Telegraph.co.uk, says that there are three main jobs in a business:
1. Sales.
2. Delivery.
3. Finance.
He goes on to explain that some entrepreneurs, known as “sole traders”, can manage all this on their own. Others fulfill one facet and get the lion’s share of credit, with other roles are filled mostly by behind the scenes people.
His article is the first in a series, and he says that if you can cover those three bases with two other people besides yourself…
then the world really is your oyster. You have the team potentially available to turn any idea into a great business; all you need is to find the right idea at the right time.
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