8 tips to be a successful entrepreneur?
In today’s entrepreneur era, where everyone wants to start a startup and become free from the 9–5 rat race.
But again just by thinking of avoiding the rat race, you won’t become an entrepreneur.
You need to have an idea for which you are passionate & which serves a purpose, which solves a problem.
Many people do this mistake of starting from a solution and then start finding the problem, which sometimes doest even matter to people — Hence the startup dies even before a proper start.
If you don’t want to end up making bad decisions and killing your own start-up, consider below tips and follow them seriously.
1. Don’t leave your job just imagining that you have started your business:
Many people leave their jobs and regret it after some time because they haven’t thought through their business idea, people, required financial support, and product value in the market before leaving their job.
I suggest going through Which factors to consider before leaving a job for a startup?
If you are leaving a job after considering all the points mentioned, now you need to breathe in and out of your business.
2. The idea you are passionate about:
Many times the young entrepreneurs think that you have the greatest idea in the whole world but never care to research the same.
Finally, they end up in failure because after some time they feel it’s not worth it.
3. Research:
Do the thorough research on the:
- Problem your product is solving
- Demand for the product
- Market value
- Who are your people
- What your people expect
- Which problem you might face
- How to solve those problems
- Who’s an experience you can learn from
- What skills you are going to need
- What kind of people you are going to need and can you find them & handle them
Write these all questions on the paper and start finding answers for these questions, if you can’t find the answer to even one question — start digging in more to find it.
4. Skills:
Many people are failing because they are not skilled enough to work alone or handle the people who are working for them.
They are lacking the product development skills, people skills, marketing skills, leadership skills, and many more.
So, start working on a skill, practice them every day, and then start building what you have dreamed of.
Remember, half-knowledge always leads to failure, so keep evaluating yourself for this.
5.Relationship & Family:
If you are going to do something, don’t let anyone come in between and tell you that you are wrong.
Start doing mental and physical exercises, because you can not afford any kind of illness now.
Never involve your negative thinking or an over-confident friend or family member in business- it always ends up breaking relationships and sinking the business in the worst ways.
6. Experience:
Don’t worry if this is your first startup because you don’t need your own experience but you certainly need an experience that can be learned from other’s experiences.
Try to use book-biography, interview videos, or real-life mentors (the best way) to get the knowledge of what you don’t know to exist.
7. Control your emotions:
This is the most crucial part because if you start facing challenges your mind and body won’t sync because you haven’t expected these challenges. You will start acting out on people in business or in family, sometimes on customers or on yourself as well.
That’s why you should be mentally strong and ready to face every situation, you should be a problem-solving personality not complaining personality.
You must be able to control your fears and overcome them by your positive thinking.
Prepare yourself to work 24 hours and never give up!!!
8. Self-driver:
You must be the self driver of your mind or no matter what you do, how much good you do, it will fail.
Listen to everyone but think with your head and then take decisions.
Never get influenced by some else’s thinking and driven by others.
