During the critical startup phase of a business, the entrepreneur needs capital, advisers, free help and support, product development, suppliers, customers and the list goes on endlessly. Successful entrepreneurs know that every person representing any of their specific needs is a valuable resource to moving the business forward in a meaningful way. The size of the dream to conquer the world in their chosen product domain does not trump the significance of the people who gene

Any entrepreneur learns that few of the steps towards lofty goals and dreams occur as planned and when desired. The real world forces changes every day in assumptions about what will work, with whom and when. Entrepreneurs committed to a dream know that they must learn to be agile, flexible and diligently focused on the dream. Determined entrepreneurs do not allow changes to become roadblocks that deter them from finding the circuitous path to success. There is one characteri