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People who can run the day-to-day operations, dealing with many dept. (sales, marketing, technology, HR etc.) may or may not be an entrepreneur because my under

People who can run the day-to-day operations, dealing with many dept. (sales, marketing, technology, HR etc.) may or may not be an entrepreneur because my understanding is entrepreneurs are builders because they create something from scratch. Many people start their career with 9 to 5 job and keep getting promoted to the CEO level, but they may not have ability and courage (at least in the beginning of their career) to build a new business right from the scratch. While entrepreneurs/builders are the people who start and build something (or help others to build something) from nothing. Serial entrepreneurs (and builders) are always on the move - from one project to another as they are not interested in doing the same thing over and over again on daily basis - they get excited to build something from scratch and once it is built they find the right person to run it (or they help others to build it and move on to the next project). Serial entrepreneurs (and builders) to me are like King-makers, they are not interested in becoming a king them self and run daily operations. They are like a Guru who has many disciples (kings) who achieve success with his/her skills and knowledge. It is well known saying that a Guru is equal to a 1000 libraries - they know which book is for whom, and when and how to use it.

davidw 18y ago
> entrepreneurs are builders because they create something from scratch. Yes, the two types of people aren't that far apart, but the entrepreneur is the guy that can tie things together and make things happen, whereas the builder is the one who creates a beautiful, well done product - or maybe not even that, just a brilliant idea that no one has ever done before. Perhaps "pure" builders aren't suited for startups - they're the brilliant type of people who just don't want to be bothered with organizational or marketing details, and would be happy in the R&D department of a company big enough to give them all the resources they need to create really interesting things. At least that's my mental image... Some hackers who strike me as not wanting to deal with the business side, and have still prospered might include people like Andrew Tridgell (who is a seriously smart individual), Linus Torvalds, Guido van Rossum, Alan Cox, and so on. Not that they don't have some good organizational skills and people skills too, but they are not the kind of people I would describe as entrepreneurs.
skmurphy 18y ago
Very few people who treat their job as 9 to 5 get promoted to CEO.

davidw 18y ago

> entrepreneurs are builders because they create something from scratch. Yes, the two types of people aren't that far apart, but the entrepreneur is the guy that can tie things together and make things happen, whereas the builder is the one who creates a beautiful, well done product - or maybe not even that, just a brilliant idea that no one has ever done before. Perhaps "pure" builders aren't suited for startups - they're the brilliant type of people who just don't want to be bothered with organizational or marketing details, and would be happy in the R&D department of a company big enough to give them all the resources they need to create really interesting things. At least that's my mental image... Some hackers who strike me as not wanting to deal with the business side, and have still prospered might include people like Andrew Tridgell (who is a seriously smart individual), Linus Torvalds, Guido van Rossum, Alan Cox, and so on. Not that they don't have some good organizational skills and people skills too, but they are not the kind of people I would describe as entrepreneurs.

skmurphy 18y ago

Very few people who treat their job as 9 to 5 get promoted to CEO.