Skills of great entrepreneurs
Being smart and working hard isn’t a guarantee of success in the entrepreneurial world. Outside influences often have a bigger say in the fate of your company than you do. But Randy Komisar of Kleiner Perkins, in this talk given at a Stanford entrepreneur summit in 2007, says the top tier of entrepreneurs are the ones who can recognize an opportunity and know how to take advantage of it.
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Chris Morris is editor of the Entrepreneur Corner on VentureBeat, helping start-up business owners launch and grow their companies. He previously worked at Yahoo! Finance, where he was managing editor, and as director of content development at CNNMoney.com. He is also a widely respected journalist in the video game and technology fields, whose work has appeared in Variety, CNBC.com, AOL and Forbes.com. Follow him on Twitter at @MorrisatLarge
