Next Step For Entrepreneurs

I have a theory... that to be a successful entrepreneur requires a wide variety of skills. That schools push people toward being specialists, when entrepreneurs need, in fact, to be generalists.Are you good at Strategic & Tactical thinking? Do you have any Design talent? Any experience in Marketing or Sales? Are you proficient with spreadsheets and Finance? Have you ever done any Fundraising? Do you love to tinker, optimize, and work in Operations?Download the Skills Map at

Why do you want to start a startup? What are your goals? Are you doing this because the richest people in the world are entrepreneurs and you want to be one of them? Or are you doing this because you see a problem in the world that needs to be fixed?Before you step down the startup path, its best to take a moment to understand yourself, your motivations, and fundamentally why it is you want to do this.Post your questions to www.quora.com/profile/Luni-LibesRead the book at

Who has this problem you are solving? Do they know they have the problem? Do they care? Before you jump straight to building a solution, how well do you know your potential customers?Post your questions to www.quora.com/profile/Luni-LibesRead the book at lunarmobiscuit.com/the-next-stepSee the results of The Next Step at youtube.com/fledgellcMore advice at lunarmobiscuit.com/blogMusic by Kevin MacLeod - incompetech.com

How do you explain your idea to investors, customers, partners, and potential employees? Step one, Luni explains how to split your idea into a problem and the solution.Post your questions to https://www.quora.com/profile/Luni-LibesRead the book at https://lunarmobiscuit.com/the-next-stepSee the results of The Next Step at http://youtube.com/fledgellcMore advice at https://lunarmobiscuit.com/blogMusic by Kevin MacLeod - incompetech.com

The Next Step podcast will walk you step by step through the process from having an idea to launching and operating a startup. In this zeroeth episode, serial entrepreneur, author, instructor Luni Libes explains his long history of startups, why he wrote The Next Step, and why it is now a podcast.Read the book at https://lunarmobiscuit.com/the-next-stepSee the results of The Next Step at http://youtube.com/fledgellcMore advice at https://lunarmobiscuit.com/blogMusic by Kevin MacLeod -