Entrepreneurs: Pitch as a coach, listen as a player (be coachable)

When pitching one’s business idea, one must ramp up their energy level to show the excitement one has about the idea.  That is easy.  However, when it becomes time to listen, one must turn and become respective of comments from the audience.  One must change perspective from being a coach, being coachable, quickly.

Here is an article that explains this:

• Willingness to learn, The Hustle, December 9, 2016

 

And Jason Fried from Basecamp adds to this thought in his blog post:

• A question I ask new entrepreneurs, Signal vs. Noise blog, December 21, 2016