Your best skill is that you are coachable, are a sponge, and are keen to learn.

It can be hard to run a start-up – whenever you are evaluating an investment opportunity, one of the key questions – Is the founder coachable? If not, then she/he is not following your advices.

You have to master many different skills, many of which you may be completely clueless right now. You may have to learn on the job, to make sure that the start-up doesn’t crash and burn. It’s different from running business operations.

This is no mean achievement – it requires a lot of flexibility, agility, resilience, intellectual fire power, grit and emotional maturity. Key for your success is whether…