Successful founder traits

0:03 Welcome to business purpose and Clarity with patreon your host we talk about startup live insights practical tips mistakes failures and everything between have you noticed that when you speak to a experienced entrepreneur found that they pretty much always are on a sales by sales mode I mean that they are really excited you get excited just by listening to them the conversation tends to call to Amazing Stories experiences latest developments and whatever it is what they're building and whatever it is what they doing and it goes pretty naturally there so you don't feel like that they pushing you by something or they really make you the next customer it's just how.

1:09 They are they just really are excited about what they're doing and building and they barely can hold themselves without telling you what it is what they're doing now so that's one of the traits which I think this thing says really good founder from those who struggle with sales and don't have that customer focus so inspired by that I was just thinking a few of these traits and if you don't recognize yourself having these or you think that they might be a little bit of your weak spots maybe that's something to work on because I think marketing and sales and a lot of these things are something you can learn to become better it's just a choice but uh I think that if you're not really interested of the problems you're solving.

2:11 The user experience and continuously improving your sales bits marketing efforts it's really hard to become successful unless your game is something else where you just do it for exit and hope that Google or somebody else pass you out like me Cohen in a podcast episode maybe a year or two ago I was mentioning if it's smart it's you can take it out from there so on my talk to pet report cost and that was a block as you noticed but let's go back to the trades always selling always marketing always talking with customers always making the ux better always innovating Relentless value-added Focus eyes on the results but also cash flow and value drivers the other day I also found out a excellent Twitter thread from sorry Teen Wolf I.

3:18 Hope I didn't mispronounce too badly his last name or his name he and he was asking from VC films like Sequoia Bessemer and light speed exactly the same thing what are the founder traits which makes them successful or what they think are the best ones and he actually released it seven of these and I can just give you the headlines and you can check them yourself or send me an email and and uh or ping me and I can I can dig it out that a bit for you or maybe I can even put it into the note here show notes anyways uh the first one curiosity and decisiveness top Founders read Listen and talk to other people to try product development and customer research a second effective build team building the best Founders are aware of their strengths and weaknesses hiring a team to fill the gaps and augment their skill third deep expertise successful entrepreneurs must have deep expertise in the area.

4:19 Fourth customer empathy great Founders have a strong sense of customer empathy folders should light up when they talk about their customers growth mindset that's the fifth entrepreneurship requires determination and corrects sixth Vision driven commercially focused seventh balanced mindset the pest Founders are dreamers crowded in reality so if you noticed they are pretty similar what I came up well you have no way to figure that out but I I did my exercise earlier and and then I just found this to be thread observe your fellow Founders entrepreneurs reflect on yourself and think about whether there's something where you can improve and the real test whether you actually are really excited about your product and the improvements you bring to your customers.

5:22 And if not well that's a topic for another day.