It's a great question.
I had stubbornness, an inability to quit and a no-fail mission mentality. In all seriousness, there's the resolve that a lot of us have of leaving the military. When you enter into entrepreneurship, it is another war, just in a different battlefield. The amount of failure that we experience...and if you know the CAF as I do, you're always understaffed and undermanned; you have to just figure it out and get it done.
This is the perfect transition for me. That was me from day one in the Canadian Armed Forces. Now I just get to solve complex problems, but those complex problems are ones I actually want to solve. I get to move forward and help other veterans get healthier and fitter in the process.
I would say a very strong capacity for resilience is probably the most important skill and then just having confidence in your ability to figure things out. That's all entrepreneurship is: It's just figuring out problems day after day. We're definitely well trained and well positioned to become good entrepreneurs; we just need the landscape to help us out and not be in our way so much.