My 6th entrepreneur post: Preparation and self-mastery

The readings of lesson 6 helped to focus in what I need to learn in order to be an entrepreneur.

Learned

I liked reading "So you want to be an Entrepreneur?" since I have many friends that started their company without any understanding of business and entrepreneurship, but only knowing their product and customers. They learned with their trials as they are running their business, but many problems could be avoided if they had studied some principles. I confirmed that is important to have a preparation before to launch a business. The advices in this article helped me narrow the most important things I should be searching to develop:

1- In-depth knowledge of the competitive structure of an industry and a network of contacts within that industry;

2- The skills to run the daily operations of a small, rapidly growing company;

3- The ability to raise money

Not learned

In the readings “How Entrepreneurs Craft Strategies That Work” I was intrigued that to achieve great goals is necessary great creativity. I don’t consider myself a creative person and I am glad that creativity is not one of the most important strategies in building a company. Now that I am learning about self-mastery, I don’t need to feel incapable for not having creativity, but be determined to walk toward this strategy.