Succeed. As long as things are going well whether or not you are an amateur is irrelevant. For example, Mark Zuckerberg and Andrew Mason would have been called

Succeed. As long as things are going well whether or not you are an amateur is irrelevant. For example, Mark Zuckerberg and Andrew Mason would have been called amateurs if their business didn't take off like a rocket and never look back. Kevin Rose was considered a rockstar for a while and when Digg started to decline everyone changed their minds about him.