There are plenty of skills entrepreneurs need to be successful, but in an interview from more than a decade ago, Bill Gates suggested that sales skills may be the most important differentiator between success and failure. Speaking at the 2007 Salon des Entrepreneurs conference in France, the Microsoft co-founder said that “every entrepreneur needs to be a mix of different skills.” But it was an entrepreneur’s ability to “be a salesperson” that might be most important. “Not just convincing your customers to buy your product, but convincing people to extend credit to you and convincing people to come to […]
