If you just take an interest in them and start paying attention, you can learn about these subjects over time. You can also hire professionals to help you when you start a company. But what makes the real difference is your strategy and your approach to business, which are reflections of your personal philosophy. I would like to share with you some things I've learned over time that work for me. A great deal of what I cover in this second installment of my series on starting your own high-tech business is about people.
Most business is based on a foundation of mutual trust and relationship.
Developing a strategy What makes a good strategist is creativity, that is, how you put together what you know to solve a problem. The keys to creativity are your knowledge base and your problem-solving skills. Business problems are different from technical problems in that they have more boundary conditions, and those boundary conditions are often poorly defined, unpredictable, and changing. So you also have to be extremely sensitive to your environment and constantly modify your strategy as new information becomes available. I learned most of what I know about business on the job and eventually went through a Harvard Business School executive program, which I found very enlightening.