5 Important Characteristics You Need To Sustain Your Startup

Veröffentlicht am: Jun 16, 2016
Entrepreneurship Campus

Von Entrepreneurship Campus

5 Important Characteristics You Need To Sustain Your Startup

startup-593341_960_720-696x464

Most entrepreneurs will say that passion is at the very core of sustaining every new business. And although we couldn’t agree more that passion, motivation and will are one of the most pivotal characteristics for keeping a business alive, beginner entrepreneurs should have additional 5 significant characteristics in order to get a startup company on its feet and sustain it.

Abundant Patience

In the early stages of your business, it’s highly unlikely that everyone is going to know what you’re doing and be very open and supportive of it. With a little bit of luck your business idea is going to reach fame in no time, however, most of the time, you have to become friends with time that’s passing by. Patience is key to sustaining your startup. Take some time to stop and smell the roses. Just because your company isn’t evolving at the speed of lightening doesn’t mean it’s failing.

If you’re trying to build a brand that’s going to provide solutions to people’s everyday problems, and you’re trying to implement this solution into their lives, you have to accept the fact that it will take some time. You future fans and clients will probably take a while to embrace your new company, and in order to stand the test of time, you’re going to need a lot of patience.

Precise Focus

While it’s important to remain focused on your business goals and work on pushing your startup in the front rows of the industry, you should be focused primarily on customers. In other words, become customer obsessed. By all means, don’t become so obsessed that you’ll go about changing your brand and doing whatever it takes to please every single person. Stick to your vision, but keep your followers and clients in mind at all times.

How do they feel about your brand?

How can your unique vision help their lives?

Persuasive Communication Skills

The truth is that communication can either make or break your business, in several different ways. You may have a supervision, an authentic idea, and a business model that’s going to hold up no matter what, but if you’re not a good communicator as an entrepreneur and don’t know how to portray your company to others nobody is going to want to hear about your startup. You need to be able to practice communication and do it on the regular. Whether it’s inside of your company, communicating with your employee or partner, or outside of the company, pitching your ideas to third-parties, you’re going to have to learn to use words to get into people’s minds.

Envisioning

Now, you might be thinking, who starts a company without having a vision? Most entrepreneurs have some kind of a vision, but we’re talking about the kind that’s going to push you through the hardest of times because you can see so far, there’s no stopping until you get there. In order to sustain a startup, you need to have a vision, not just for the present or close future, but for the next 20 years. Once you reach your first set milestone, you shouldn’t just sit around and wait to see where the road will take you. Your vision should be your guide throughout the entire process, and once you reach each milestone you’re going to find it all familiar because you’ve envisioned it from the very beginning.

Cautious Management

No matter what you start off with, pennies or millions, you should be very careful when it comes to your assets. Startups are a gamble to a certain degree, but great leaders know how to spend and when to invest their money. They don’t waste a dime, and they know when they should invest millions when necessary. Get educated when it comes to finances and startups in order to avoid making bad financial decisions that will drive your business to the ground.

We consider these five characteristics predictors of future success. They might not always determine the outcome of your startup because there are various other factors to take into consideration, that might influence the sustainability of your business, and that might not always be in your control. But, these five traits are important to have in order to control the situations and aspects of your business that shouldn’t be left up to fate.

Do you have them and if not just yet, how do you plan on working on them? Tell us your startup’s story!

Source / photo: The Asian Entrepreneur

Beitrag teilen über:

Einen Kommentar verfassen

Du kannst nicht als Gast kommentieren, hast du bereits ein Campus-Profil? Hier einloggen.

(6) Kommentare

eduheal

15.7.2020Antworten

Impressive article. Indeed while motivation, passion and will are quite needed for the sustainability of businesses, there is a lot more than that. I suppose most starts up fail due to the lack of the factors mention in this article: patience, precise focus, oersuasive communication, envisioning and cautious management.

Paying attention to these characteristics as campus members in this competition will give a chance of success and sustainability of our start ups. Thank you campus competition for ensuring that we succeed in all ramifications.

Campus members you are highly encourage to read this article

togeda

14.7.2020Antworten

Sustainability is a very vital develpment strategy. Without sustainability the globe will always be static if not retrogressive. While, passion, motivation and will are inevitable characteristics to the success of our businesses campus members, this article has reminded us that we need more than that. And as stated by the author there are: patience, precise focus, oersuasive communication, envisioning and cautious management. Wao this is wonderful.

Campus members i encourage us to read this and critically assess ourselves if we have these characteristics. If not we need to develop them now if we need to succeed as entrepreneurs.

martinsfene

25.6.2016Antworten

Very true about these characteristics as you rightly presented them. But if should add yet another characteristic I will say: OPENESS (conscious opines). I believe starters need to open up themselves and ideas or project (wisely) for more perspectives from both the users of their services or product as well as like minded others like s/he. This gives more direction in a positive way.

adeyinkaisioye

24.6.2016Antworten

Pronto!

19.6.2016Antworten

I possess 4 out of 5 of the above characteristics. I will definitely work on the 5th. I don’t have much story to tell yet since the business is at a startup stage. But I believe in dream, I believe in vision. With 4 characters and a work on the 5th, I believe I will achieve it(The pictured vision of a large-scale commercial snail farm, an ultramodern snail shop, cosmetic lab and cosmetic shop).

Ältere Kommentare laden

Newsletter

Bleibe auf dem Laufenden und melde dich für unseren Newsletter an.

Entrepreneurship.de Logo

Werde Entrepreneur.
Es gibt keine bessere Alternative.

Folge uns
© 2024 Stiftung Entrepreneurship