The social levers of the entrepreneurial success
The social capital constitutes a relevant tool for developing the network of social relations that the entrepreneur entertains with the stakeholders who are essential for the development of his new venture. It is also so important for facilitating his access to external strategic resources, namely financing and useful information. However, the scarcity of researches devoted to the antecedents of the entrepreneurial social capital brought us to try to deepen our apprehension of the process by which the entrepreneur could contribute to sustain his new company. Accordingly, it was more compelling to pay a special attention to the factors that are more likely to facilitate the formation and the development of the entrepreneurial social capital. A survey undertaken on 120 Information Technology (IT) Tunisian entrepreneurs illustrate the role that social skills play in the development of an entrepreneurial social capital (rising from a large network rich in weak and non redundant ties) which is favorable for accessing easily to the necessary information and financing. These social skills encompass management impression-via the valorization of others, social persuasion and personal emotional intelligence. Keywords