BNET Business Dictionary
Business Definition for: Entrepreneur
- somebody who sets up a business or enterprise. An entrepreneur typically demonstrates effective application of a number of enterprising attributes, such as creativity, initiative, risk taking, problem solving ability, and autonomy, and will often risk his or her own capital to establish a business.
Wiktionary Definition for: Entrepreneur
- A person who takes the risk of turning an opportunity into profit.
- A person who takes the risk of managing and operating a business or businesses; term often used: '''a.''' for one who does this for one or more businesses that he or she entirely or largely helps to create; '''b.''' for one who takes on ownership, or significant ownership, of one or more business franchises.
- A person who creates one or more new nonprofit organizations, or one or more units of such organizations, and often has a key part in managing and operating the new entity or entities. Such a person is sometimes referred to as a ''nonprofit entrepreneur'' or ''not-for-profit entrepreneur'', and occasionally as a ''public entrepreneur''.
- A person who is talented or prolific at developing new programs inside existing organizations.
Additional Resources
- Tasting the Many Flavors of Entrepreneurship
- There are no defined traits for all entrepreneurs. There’s a variety of entrepreneurial types in the marketplace, they are as diverse a group of people. Article takes a look at many ways of becoming an entrepreneur such as the home-based entrepreneur, virtual entrepreneur, serial entrepreneur and traditional entrepreneur. Find more...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- 25 Super Sales Secrets
- For many entrepreneurs, making their first sale is a monumental task. A million questions pop up, such as: How can entrepreneur make the product stand out from those of the competitors? What types of questions should entrepreneur ask? How do entrepreneur handle objections? How should entrepreneur ask for the order?...
- White papers 2002-04-24
- Intrapreneur or Entrepreneur?
- Article compares Entrepreneur at par with Intrapreneur. It deduces that every effective worker has Intrapreneurial traits that may or may not culminate in an Entrepeneurial life. Intrapreneurs, by definition, embody the same characteristics as the Entrepreneur, conviction, passion, and drive. The more the Intrapreneur expresses himself, the more the company...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Information Entrepreneurs And Competition In Procurement Auctions
- One of the most important goals of auction design is to attract as many bidders as possible. This paper study the role of a third party, called an information entrepreneur that collects and sells announcements about forthcoming auctions, with the ostensible goal of encouraging participation. A model is presented in...
- White papers 2007-05-01
- The Lawyer as Entrepreneur
- The article asserts that lawyers and entrepreneurs do not have much in common. Much like accounting or medicine, many lawyers choose the law as a profession because it offers a low-risk (if high-stress) means to a long, relatively well-paid, and tightly-controlled career at a privately-held law firm or government position....
- White papers 2003-01-01
- The Entrepreneur And Entrepreneurship: A Neoclassical Approach
- This paper attempts to introduce the entrepreneur as the "economic man" into a neoclassical framework and to indicate the role of government in fostering entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurship, specifically, is defined as an "economic system" that consists of three components: entrepreneurs, who desire to achieve their goals of economic survival and advancement;...
- White papers 2003-01-05
- Entrepreneurship, Brands And The Development Of Global Business
- It has been widely acknowledged that entrepreneurship and innovation are vital forces in explaining the development of big business, international business and global competitiveness of economies in general. Yet, there is little consensus of what entrepreneurial activity and innovation actually entails. This paper discusses on a 'Stretched' definition of the...
- White papers 2006-07-31
- Time Management: From Employee To Self-Employed
- Changing a career track from an employee to self-employed entails drastic life changes. Everything shifts 180 degrees, including the way you manage time. Here's the bad news: time management for the entrepreneur is tougher, particularly at the start-up phase! But since time management skills are crucial to the success of...
- White papers 2004-09-27
- Measuring Success In Small Business and Entrepreneurship
- The most common method people use to measure business success is financial worth. The more the entrepreneur and business are worth, the more successful the entrepreneur is considered to be. The extreme of this would be the valuation of an entrepreneur’s publicly traded company. The entrepreneur’s company’s market value is...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Useful Commute: Confessions of a Serial Entrepreneur
- Useful Commute: Confessions of a Serial EntrepreneurStartupsFor those who love startups check out http://www.foundread.com/. It's a great site with lots of very good and real life information on successful and failed startups.
- Discussion threads 2007-07-20
- Useful Commute: Confessions of a Serial Entrepreneur
- Stuart Skorman is a self-proclaimed "serial entrepreneur," who founded four innovative companies: Elephant Pharmacy, HungryMinds.com, Reel.com and Empire Video. In this episode of the Useful Commute, Skorman explains his obsession with start-ups and shares his hard-won lessons. Length: 00:07:43 by BNET staff
- Blog posts 2007-07-18
- Want To Start A Business? 7 Ways To Follow The Money
- Every would-be entrepreneur needs to consider these two questions: First, how do you know your business idea is a good one? And, second, if you don't have an idea, but seriously want to start your own business anyway, how do you find the market niche that offers you the best...
- White papers
- Networking Tips To Help Your Business Grow
- The ability to network is a crucial skill any start-up entrepreneur must have. It is a skill that is necessary to establish a mutually beneficial relationship with other business people and potential clients and/or customers. The trick with networking is to be proactive. This means taking control of the situation...
- White papers 2008-01-01
- Defining Entrepreneurship
- An entrepreneur is an individual who has a definitive action-plan and strategy to realize a business venture. Creativity is the trait that evolves new and unique ideas. It requires seeing and conceptualizing things from newer, unexplored perspectives. Innovation is the ability to apply creative solutions to problem to enhance organizational...
- Presentations 2003-01-01
- Time Management For New Self Employed Entrepreneur
- Everyday, more employed workers choose to work as self-employed entrepreneurs. However, one of the greatest challenges to them is managing their time. All the while they have been following the daily routine working hours set by their employer. The moment that they switch to self-employed entrepreneur, they are so free...
- White papers 2007-12-01
- Business Plans: Are They Really Necessary
- From the executive summary: ‘An entrepreneur is someone who sees a need for a product or service and has a goal for how the company can fulfill that need. However, that is just the beginning. In order to be successful, the entrepreneur prepares a business plan to assist in achieving...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Unsecured Business Loans to Gain Success in the World of Business
- The word "Success" is defined differently by different people. Success for some means money while for others it could be the name and fame factor. For an entrepreneur, success would mean maximization of profits and gaining recognition. An entrepreneur must be creative and confident; must have the passion, vision and...
- White papers
- Venture Capitalists and Psychological Contract Violations: An Institutional Approach
- The expectation of reciprocal obligations lays a foundation for the venture capitalist entrepreneur relationship. These expectations, or perceived promises, constitute a psychological contract between the venture capitalist and the entrepreneur. This paper is concerned with four forms of psychological contract violations in this relationship: disagreements over the strategy of the...
- White papers 2003-06-10
- Confessions of a Serial Entrepreneur by Stuart Skorman |Book Brief
- In "Confessions of a Serial Entrepreneur," Stuart Skorman recounts the ups and downs of his high-stakes career. Skorman launched the online video store Reel.com in 1997 and sold it three years later for $100 million — but his online learning site Hungryminds.com bombed. More recently he made a come back...
- Videos 2007-10-24
- Market Strategies
- From the executive summary: ‘Market strategies are the result of a meticulous market analysis. A market analysis forces the entrepreneur to become familiar with all aspects of the market so that the target market can be defined and the company can be positioned in order to garner its share of...
- White papers 2003-01-01
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