You got to be stubborn and flexible to be a successful entrepreneur

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The difference between founders and professional managers is that founders are stubborn about the vision of the business, and keep working the details. Professional managers, when things don’t work, want to change the vision. The trick to being an entrepreneur is to know when to be stubborn and when to be flexible: Be stubborn about the vision, but flexible about tactics, Bezos said. For instance, you can be flexible about reducing costs, but you don’t change your vision to reduce costs. Great point, because more often than not, founders get caught up in the tactics and change their direction as a result.

via Tips on Innovation & Entrepreneurship From Jeff Bezos .

Jeff Bezos is the founder and CEO of Amazon.com. What a good point and how true. Entrepreneurs and the founders are by default very stubborn because you got th be like that. As during initial phase there will be at least 100 guys telling you that why this will not work against the one or two who will say why it will, and more often than not the other one or two will be you and your business partner.
There is a practicality of being flexible if you want to succeed as an Entrepreneur as there will be times when you have to take the all important call at an unearthly hour, to run on with the authority because you want to work and neighbor wants to go to sleep, or the all dependent laptop dies the day before you have an presentation. The list are plenty. Most of the Technology entrepreneurs comes from hardcore technical background where they don’t have to bother about the office bills, facing customers, delivering product directly and how flexible you are decides how soon you will get used to it.
When do you start hiring outside engineering?The point came yesterday during dinner with a very successful entrepreneur, we had some very interesting and contradictory points. More on that in Part 2. Let me know your thoughts.

Jeff Bezos is the founder and CEO of Amazon.com. What a good point and how true. Entrepreneurs and the founders are by default very stubborn because you got th be like that. As during initial phase there will be at least 100 guys telling you that why this will not work against the one or two who will say why it will, and more often than not the other one or two will be you and your business partner.

There is a practicality of being flexible if you want to succeed as an Entrepreneur as there will be times when you have to take the all important call at an unearthly hour, to run on with the authority because you want to work and neighbor wants to go to sleep, or the all dependent laptop dies the day before you have an presentation. The list are plenty. Most of the Technology entrepreneurs comes from hardcore technical background where they don’t have to bother about the office bills, facing customers, delivering product directly and how flexible you are decides how soon you will get used to it.

When do you start hiring outside engineering?The point came yesterday during dinner with a very successful entrepreneur, we had some very interesting and contradictory points. More on that in Part 2. Let me know your thoughts.

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