Recognizing entrepreneurial intentions in undergraduate students may improve insight regarding the skills and motives nascent entrepreneurs possess, as well as the potential timing for when college students may plan to engage in entrepreneurial activities. Specifically, we explore whether political skill moderates the relationship between emotional intelligence and an individual’s entrepreneurial intentions. Political skill examines what is influenced, as well as how or the degree in which the influence occurs. Given this, we are interested in the extent political skill may or may not influence the relationship between emotional intelligence and entrepreneurial intentions. While political behavior has been examined in various contexts, to our knowledge, there has been no theoretical or empirical research conducted which examines political skill from an entrepreneurial perspective. By examining political skill as a moderator we offer more insight into what strengthens or weakens entrepreneurial intentions. In this study, since firm survival is heavily dependent on the entrepreneur and his/her capabilities to effectively influence, we assert that the political skill of the entrepreneur is vital to the firm’s success and ultimate survival; thus, to fill this gap in the literature, we examine how the ability to influence (political skill) impacts the relationship between emotional intelligence and individual entrepreneurial intent early on in the entrepreneurial process. While these skills are arguably needed for the firm to survive, we contend that these same skills may attribute to heightened levels of entrepreneurial intentions and subsequently impact the start of the entrepreneurial process. In entrepreneurship and small business research, we often seek to understand why some businesses succeed and why others fail. Examining these skills in college students (potential future entrepreneurs) could offer early insight into explaining the phenomenon of new business failure/success. Furthermore, this research identifies relationships and skills that may need to be integrated into entrepreneurship programs that could benefit potential entrepreneurs.