Entrepreneur
An Entrepreneur is a business owner that is a business creator who initiates and develops new business ventures.
- AKA: Business Founder, Venture Creator, Enterprise Builder, Startup Founder, Business Innovator.
- Context:
- It can (typically) identify Business Opportunity through market analysis.
- It can (typically) develop Business Innovation through creative solutions.
- It can (typically) manage Business Risk through strategic planning.
- It can (typically) secure Business Resources through venture funding.
- It can (typically) build Business Teams through talent acquisition.
- It can (typically) establish Start-Up Companies through venture creation.
- It can (typically) implement Disruptive Innovation through market disruption.
- It can (typically) navigate Business Challenges through entrepreneurial resilience.
- It can (typically) achieve Business Growth through scaling strategies.
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- It can (often) disrupt Market Dynamics through innovative approaches.
- It can (often) create Market Value through business models.
- It can (often) leverage Social Networks through business connections.
- It can (often) demonstrate Leadership Quality through venture growth.
- It can (often) participate in Networking Events through business networking.
- It can (often) transition from Self-Employed Worker to Business Owner through venture scaling.
- It can (often) attract Venture Capital through investor pitches.
- It can (often) build Company Culture through organizational leadership.
- It can (often) create Economic Value through value creation.
- It can (often) demonstrate Ambitiousness Trait through growth pursuit.
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- It can range from being a First-Time Entrepreneur to being a Serial Entrepreneur, depending on its venture experience.
- It can range from being a Young Entrepreneur to being a Senior Entrepreneur, depending on its founder age.
- It can range from being a Local Entrepreneur to being a Global Entrepreneur, depending on its market scope.
- It can range from being a Traditional Entrepreneur to being a Digital Entrepreneur, depending on its business model.
- It can range from being a Small-Scale Entrepreneur to being a Large-Scale Entrepreneur, depending on its venture size.
- It can range from being a Bootstrap Entrepreneur to being a Venture-Backed Entrepreneur, depending on its funding approach.
- It can range from being a Solo Entrepreneur to being a Team Entrepreneur, depending on its founding structure.
- It can range from being a Lifestyle Entrepreneur to being a Growth Entrepreneur, depending on its business objective.
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- It can utilize Business Accelerators for venture development.
- It can engage Business Mentors for entrepreneurial guidance.
- It can leverage Digital Platforms for market access.
- It can access Entrepreneurial Ecosystems for resource support.
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- Example(s):
- Technology Entrepreneurs, such as:
- Software Entrepreneurs, such as:
- Bill Gates (1955-) founding Microsoft Corporation for software innovation.
- Marc Andreessen founding Netscape for web browser innovation.
- Larry Ellison (1944-) founding Oracle Corporation for database innovation.
- Internet Entrepreneurs, such as:
- Jeff Bezos (1964-) founding Amazon.com for e-commerce platform.
- Mark Zuckerberg (1984-) founding Facebook for social media platform.
- Larry Page (1973-) and Sergey Brin (1973-) founding Google for search engine innovation.
- Hardware Entrepreneurs, such as:
- Steve Jobs (1955-2011) founding Apple Inc. for personal computing.
- Michael Dell (1965-) founding Dell Inc. for computer manufacturing.
- Elon Musk (1971-) founding Tesla Inc. for electric vehicles.
- Software Entrepreneurs, such as:
- Digital Entrepreneurs, such as:
- Platform Entrepreneurs, such as:
- Travis Kalanick (1976-) founding Uber for ride-sharing platform.
- Brian Chesky (1981-) founding Airbnb for hospitality platform.
- Daniel Ek (1983-) founding Spotify for music streaming platform.
- E-commerce Entrepreneurs, such as:
- Jack Ma (1964-) founding Alibaba for Chinese e-commerce.
- Tony Hsieh (1973-2020) building Zappos for online shoe retail.
- Sophia Amoruso (1984-) founding Nasty Gal for fashion e-commerce.
- Platform Entrepreneurs, such as:
- Social Entrepreneurs, such as:
- Muhammad Yunus (1940-) founding Grameen Bank for microfinance.
- Blake Mycoskie (1976-) founding TOMS Shoes for one-for-one model.
- Scott Harrison (1975-) founding charity: water for clean water access.
- American Technology Entrepreneurs, such as:
- Sam Altman (1985-) leading OpenAI for artificial intelligence.
- Drew Houston (1983-) founding Dropbox for cloud storage.
- Aaron Levie (1984-) founding Box Inc. for enterprise content management.
- Industry Pioneers, such as:
- Henry Ford (1863-1947) revolutionizing automobile manufacturing through mass production.
- Ray Kroc (1902-1984) building McDonald's Corporation through franchise model.
- Sam Walton (1918-1992) founding Walmart for retail innovation.
- Media Entrepreneurs, such as:
- Oprah Winfrey (1954-) building Harpo Productions for media empire.
- Walt Disney (1901-1966) founding Disney Company for entertainment innovation.
- Rupert Murdoch (1931-) building News Corporation for media conglomerate.
- Female Entrepreneurs, such as:
- Sara Blakely (1971-) founding Spanx for shapewear innovation.
- Whitney Wolfe Herd (1989-) founding Bumble for dating app platform.
- Katrina Lake (1982-) founding Stitch Fix for personalized styling.
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- Technology Entrepreneurs, such as:
- Counter-Example(s):
- Professional Manager, who operates but doesn't own the business.
- Business Employee, who works within established ventures.
- Financial Investor, who provides capital without direct management.
- Freelancer, who provides services without building ventures.
- Consultant, who advises but doesn't create businesses.
- Franchisee, who operates existing business models rather than creating new ones.
- See: Entrepreneurship, Business Innovation, Venture Creation, Start-Up Company, Business Development, Professional Manager, Business Person, Self-Employed Worker, Business Owner, Disruptive Innovation, Networking Event, Venture Capital, American Technology Entrepreneur.
References
2023a
- (ChatGPT-OpenAI, 2023) ⇒ https://chat.openai.com/chat Retrieved:2023-4-9.
- Q: What is an Entrepreneur?
- A: An entrepreneur is a person who creates, manages, and runs a business venture or enterprise, typically with the goal of making a profit. Entrepreneurs are characterized by their willingness to take risks, their ability to identify opportunities, their vision for the future, and their determination to succeed. They are often innovative, creative, and have a strong drive to turn their ideas into reality.
Entrepreneurs may start a business from scratch, acquire an existing business, or become a franchisee. They are responsible for all aspects of the business, including planning, financing, marketing, and management. Entrepreneurs often work long hours and take on significant financial risk, but they can also reap great rewards if their business is successful.
2023b
- (Wikipedia, 2023) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entrepreneurship Retrieved:2023-4-9.
- Entrepreneurship is the creation or extraction of economic value. [1] With this definition, entrepreneurship is viewed as change, generally entailing risk beyond what is normally encountered in starting a business, which may include other values than simply economic ones.
An entrepreneur is an individual who creates and/or invests in one or more businesses, bearing most of the risks and enjoying most of the rewards. The process of setting up a business is known as "entrepreneurship". The entrepreneur is commonly seen as an innovator, a source of new ideas, goods, services, and business/or procedures.
More narrow definitions have described entrepreneurship as the process of designing, launching and running a new business, which is often similar to a small business, or as the "capacity and willingness to develop, organize and manage a business venture along with any of its risks to make a profit."[2] The people who create these businesses are often referred to as "entrepreneurs". [3] While definitions of entrepreneurship typically focus on the launching and running of businesses, due to the high risks involved in launching a start-up, a significant proportion of start-up businesses have to close due to "lack of funding, bad business decisions, government policies, an economic crisis, lack of market demand, or a combination of all of these."
In the field of economics, the term entrepreneur is used for an entity which has the ability to translate inventions or technologies into products and services. In this sense, entrepreneurship describes activities on the part of both established firms and new businesses.
- Entrepreneurship is the creation or extraction of economic value. [1] With this definition, entrepreneurship is viewed as change, generally entailing risk beyond what is normally encountered in starting a business, which may include other values than simply economic ones.
- ↑ Diochon, Monica; Anderson, Alistair R. (1 March 2011). “Ambivalence and ambiguity in social enterprise; narratives about values in reconciling purpose and practices". International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal. 7 (1): 93–109. doi:10.1007/s11365-010-0161-0. hdl:10059/613. ISSN 1555-1938. S2CID 144081539
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- ↑ Katila, Riitta; Chen, Eric L.; Piezunka, Henning (7 June 2012). "All the right moves: How entrepreneurial firms compete effectively" (PDF). Strategic Entrepreneurship JNL. 6 (2): 116–132. doi:10.1002/sej.1130. Retrieved 18 May 2017.
2015
- (Ersek, 2015) ⇒ Barrett Ersek, Eileen Weisenbach Keller, and John Mullins. (2015). “Break Your Industry’s Bottlenecks."
- QUOTE: If you want to create a successful business, you have to do more than win your share of customers or control costs — you have to break the rules and overturn the received wisdom about how things work.
2013
- (Levine & Rubinstein, 2013) ⇒ Ross Levine, and Yona Rubinstein. (2013). “Smart and Illicit: Who Becomes An Entrepreneur and Do They Earn More ?." No. w19276. National Bureau of Economic Research,
- QUOTE: We disaggregate the self-employed into incorporated and unincorporated to distinguish between “entrepreneurs" and other business owners. We show that the incorporated self-employed and their businesses engage in activities that demand comparatively strong nonroutine cognitive abilities, while the unincorporated and their firms perform tasks demanding relatively strong manual skills. The incorporated self-employed have distinct cognitive and noncognitive traits. Besides tending to be white, male, and come from higher-income families, the incorporated — as teenagers — typically scored higher on learning aptitude tests, had greater self-esteem, and engaged in more disruptive, illicit activities. The combination of “smart” and “illicit” tendencies as youths accounts for both entry into entrepreneurship and the comparative earnings of entrepreneurs.
In contrast to past research, we find that entrepreneurs earn much more per hour than their salaried and counterparts.
- QUOTE: We disaggregate the self-employed into incorporated and unincorporated to distinguish between “entrepreneurs" and other business owners. We show that the incorporated self-employed and their businesses engage in activities that demand comparatively strong nonroutine cognitive abilities, while the unincorporated and their firms perform tasks demanding relatively strong manual skills. The incorporated self-employed have distinct cognitive and noncognitive traits. Besides tending to be white, male, and come from higher-income families, the incorporated — as teenagers — typically scored higher on learning aptitude tests, had greater self-esteem, and engaged in more disruptive, illicit activities. The combination of “smart” and “illicit” tendencies as youths accounts for both entry into entrepreneurship and the comparative earnings of entrepreneurs.