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by medialucky20 2201 days ago
I personally feel, entrepreneurship is learning on the way as it demands. You never know everything or your acuired skillsets may never be sufficient to be successful entrepreneur. As you build your product, keep updating your knowledge in other fields like marketing and sales. If you build really useful product you definitely get succeed even with no prior experience on marketing because people buy it.

Coming to making some money, you can use your strength so you don't spend too much time or energy in making money and use rest of time on your project

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Completely agree. I’ve been in engineering and engineering management for years, but starting my own company has forced me into a whole new skill set, particularly around getting distribution for a SaaS product. It’s all hands on a deck when you’re trying to get the word out about your startup
I think learning some of the theory and models around entrepreneurship is really valuable.

Its incredibly important to have laser sharp focus, but focus is easy. The hard part is figuring out what to focus on. Prior work can give you very helpful tools to figure that out.