Interestingly, most answers so far reinforce qualities of a person, such as tenacity or emotional intelligence, but these aren't skills, which is what you asked.
What are the skills you can learn, to be successful?
Marketing. This is certain, all research shows that aside from a poor team, lacking marketing is the greatest cause of failure, by far.
Sales. Find and close business. Note, this is #2 and yet most horrific advice will tell you that *selling* is the most important thing you do. That advice is unequivocally wrong - selling and closing business does NOT protect you from competition, a bad location or niche, trends against you, or a lack of funds. Focus on sales, without marketing, will cause you to fail. People who say the priority is sales, need to shut it; they give founders false hope.
Work on your mental health by learning to prioritize personal time, exercise, health diet, and sleep. Most of what entrepreneurs face is adversity, discouragement, misdirection, and false hope; these tendencies will drain you. This is why words like tenacity and grit are shared as important, but the skill isn't a quality, the skill is what you DO and can practice. You need to work on your ability to handle all the difficult times.
That’s it. Do this and you will be successful. Fail this and you will fail. That isn't an opinion, the research is in place that can put these kinds of questions to be: we know what causes failure -> so work to ensure that isn't the case, and in time, you'll succeed.
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