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5 critical skills entrepreneurs need

Running a startup is a combination of luck and skill. The luck part of that you can’t control, but serial entrepreneur and technical innovator Jerry Kaplan notes there are certain qualities that successful entrepreneurs share. He runs down the five most important in this entrepreneur thought leader lecture given at Stanford University. Business acumen is helpful, but to really succeed, he says, people skills are just as important.

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