Do you want to build your own startup? But you are wondering what to do and what skills are required? By watching this video, in just minutes you will know the most important skills a tech CEO should have to be successful. Watch it till the end and become more confident with your project, no matter what your background is or if you have the funding or not.
Today I'm going to talk about the soft skills Required to Build a Startup
The most important skills to build a startup are not technical, legal or even business skills!
They are soft skills!
But,
What do soft skills mean?
Let’s illustrate that with real facts!
They are entrepreneurs with and without technical background!
They are successful entrepreneur that come from very poor neighborhoods while other with lot money never succeed!
Things happened in life and led people to work on their own behavior.
And that’s what soft skills are! Soft skills is the way you communicate, behave & react on daily basis.
I love that quote:
“The way you live your days is the way you live your life.”
Because: Everything you create is the result of who you truly are!
Soft skills allows anyone to reach their full potential!
This is your capacity to develop yourself, to have to most appropriate behavior in a set environment.
The success of your company is not directly related to your original skills,
but related to soft skills you develop… and therefore, the hard skills you’ll be able to learn.
Now you might wonder, what are hard skills?
That’s the topic of the next video, but basically, it’s pure know-how like business skills, finance… anything you can learn at school or from a book.
Let’s review now…
What are the required soft skills to build a startup:
What are the required soft skills to build a startup:
Creative thinking
business idea
Technical opportunities
Clients needs…
Perseverance
Illustrate that with the Muhammad Ali quote:
"Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face”
Cannot expect & anticipate everything… Only perseverance people will thrives
Positive thinking
Time management & Focus
Leadership
There is no room for “Boss” any more,
Founder has to be leaders…
Hand-on and good team player
Teamwork
Able to communicate and work effectively with your team.
For that the required skills is:
Conflict resolution ( Emotion/pragmatic mind)
Flexibility
Willing to listen
By nature, human want to show off, but do not take time to listen enough…
Humility
Successful founder are very humble! Because they develop this capacity to listen and therefor learn from others…
Add some skills that technically speaking are not categorised as softskills, but still that are a must as a CEO:
Self-learning
Humble people, willing to listen develop this capacity to learn much more than others.
Open to opportunity
That’s one of the biggest difficulty of a founder, being able to focus on what need to be done, but also listening new opportunity and following the relevant ones.
Last but not least,
Stress management
Finance,
Team,
Challenges…
Public speaking…
Stress is omnipresent…
To summarize,
Soft skill will help you learn hard skills,
Be sure to work on a daily basis on it,
watch content, put yourself out of your comfort zone, and always allocate time to self-retrospection.
Good: Leader
Humble
Listen your team, clients & advisors
Stay focus while being open to new opportunities
Learn on daily basis
And develop you stress management muscle.
