Have you got the entrepreneurial skills needed to start up successfully a new venture and become a successful business man or woman? 

• Management skills - the ability to manage time and people (both yourself and others) successfully.
• Leadership skills – the ability to guide and motivate people (both yourself and others) successfully.
• Communication skills and the ability to sell ideas and persuade others
• The ability to work as part of a team and independently, obviuosly  this comes with each one of us.
• Planning skills. Able to plan, coordinate and organise effectively. Plan for the worst and hope for the best. Is not clarevoyancy it is researching on what was needed in the past  and  try to guess what will be need in the future
• Financial skills, the numbers do not lie.  But  can you undestand what the numbers mean?
• Research skills, you need to be able to research effectively, for example available markets, suppliers, customers and the competition.  Do you know what information is needed  and where to get it from without  getting lost in  while you try to find it?
• Self motivated and disciplined
• Adaptable, able to listen and learn from others
• Innovative thinking and creative. Don’t reinvent the wheel just tweak existing ideas, make them to work better
• The ability to multi-task; it doesn’t mean being at two different places at the same time  
• Able to take responsibility and make decisions, the right decisions at the right time.
• The ability to work under pressure.  If you plan ahead you shouldn't panic.
• Perseverance
• Competitiveness, competition is good,  it pushes us to do better, to improve. It also helps us to be aware of  the strength and weakneses of both, of us and our competitors.
• Willingness to take risks, controlled risks
• Ability to network and make contacts. This is one of the key skills for entrepreneurs, networking

I believe people are born to be entrepreneurs, but you may also learn the majority of the skills needed to be an entrepreneur, and how to apply this skills successfully.

Very specific skills can be learnt are:

• being able to draw up a business plan for a new venture
• being able to market and sell a new product or idea
• financial skills, such as book-keeping and calculating tax
• awareness of intellectual property and possibly patent law

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