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Entrepreneurship skills are the real reason some founders build empires while others burn through their savings and quit. Sara Blakely started Spanx with $5,000, no business degree, and zero industry connections — but she had spent years cold-calling strangers, learning to handle rejection, and refining her pitch. The idea was just a pair of footless pantyhose. The skills made it a billion-dollar company. Most people who want to start a business focus almost entirely on the idea. They spend months perfecting their concept, building a website, designing a logo. Then they launch, and nothing happens. Not because the idea was bad. Because the skills weren't there. Here's the part nobody says out loud: you can learn this stuff. Entrepreneurship skills aren't born into people. They're built, one by one, through deliberate practice. Canva's Melanie Perkins had no technical background when she decided to build a design tool for everyone. TaskRabbit's Leah Solivan ...