ARK Alum Justyn Hornor on Essential Techpreneur Skills
ARK Challenge alum Justyn Hornor shares his essential techpreneur skills in Arkansas Money & Politics.
Hornor took Politapoll through the fall 2014 ARK Challenge in Little Rock. Politapoll since merged with Little Rock's Civik, and Hornor pivoted to another venture he co-founded with Tim Brasuell: Real Agent Guard.
More on it here. Plus, Real Agent Guard recently received a $250,000 investment round from XCelerate Capital.
In the meantime, Hornor shares in AMP his basic skills that every tech entrepreneur needs to possess.
A few of his prerequisite basic skills:
- Strong communication skills
- Selling
- Strategy/Vision
- Finance/Accounting
- Marketing/Branding
- Fundraising
A sample from the post:
The right technopreneur for a startup will understand the industry-specific technologies that the product will have to work with and help make critical choices on the front end of the product development.
Most successful startups are built by a team. As a technopreneur, I lean heavily on my co-founders for non-technical matters. I suffer from the same anti-selling syndrome of most software developers. So I make sure I have co-founders who can sell.
Good stuff. Read the whole post here.