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If you google "define:entrepreneur" then the first definition is: "someone who organizes a business venture and assumes the risk for it" so small businesses a
by dools 16y ago
If you google "define:entrepreneur" then the first definition is:
"someone who organizes a business venture and assumes the risk for it"
so small businesses are run by entrepreneurs. Entrepreneur has to go down in history with "irony", "literally" and "physically" as being the most misused words in modern English.
- bdclimber14 16y agoSure, I agree that's the dictionary definition. But I needed to make a distinction between someone who owns and operates a lifestyle business, and someone who seeks to grow an organization. Colloquially, I find entrepreneur is used to describe the latter.