People Skills - The Character Traits of an Entrepreneur

Posted by ahsonwardak on Tuesday September 11, 2007 @08:07AM
from the self-post dept.

In a previous post and many similar posts, the community has talked about the characteristics of an entrepreneur. What about people skills? Let's be honest - hackers aren't known for having great people skills either.

This also reminds me of a chapter in Founders at Work. One interview highlighted changing the culture of hackers to be more professional, but this interviewee gave up that idea.

Thoughts? Anecdotes? How do hackers and co-founders develop people skills?

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Re:People Skills - The Character Traits of an Entrepreneur by Ultrapreneur on Tuesday September 11, 2007 @08:57AM (#53267)

This is the same problem engineers have...lol have you ever seen the movie office space? the easy answer is to hire someone who is a people person and knows a little about programming. Let them deal with the customer/public and you can continue to do what you do best...hack.

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