Entrepreneurial Skills

What skills do you need to start and grow a business? What are your strengths? What are your skills gaps? If you needed to outsource, hire, or partner with others, what skills would you look for?

This Entrepreneurship Skills Self-Assessment will help you to find your key skills and identify your skills gaps.

You will assess yourself in seven functional skills areas:

• Strategy and Tactics: General business planning skills
• Design: Aesthetics, usability, and experience
• Marketing: Messaging, writing, design
• Sales: Closing customers
• Financials: Financial projections & accounting
• Fundraising: Raising external capital
• Operations: Day-to-Day management. Recruiting.

For each skill, you will rate yourself on a 0-7 scale:

• No ability
• Please don’t make me
• Uncomfortable
• Manage to do it
• Some experience
• Comfortable
• Highly experienced
• Expert. Can teach to others