Agree with swombat's carefully worded response. Would like to add a couple of points. Entrepreneurs volunteer and are not forced to be "pawns". They are the

Agree with swombat's carefully worded response. Would like to add a couple of points. Entrepreneurs volunteer and are not forced to be "pawns". They are the inventors. People in general are content with the status quo, entrepreneurs on the hand are "unreasonable", they see better ways of doing things. It is through this process of optimisation that society has progressed. Trying anything new and/or different is inherently risky and thus there is the ever present chance of failure. But failing to fail is worse, it means that you haven't tried hard enough. Probably the most mistaken concept of entrepreneurship is that they do it for money. That is what bankers and VC's do. They don't have any vision of their own, instead they fund the visions of others. Entrepreneurs do things to OPTIMISE, the money is merely the consequence of getting it right, in other words, people are prepared to pay money for the convenience, benefit, VALUE of the entrepreneurs' innovation. Columbus wasn't told by his Queen to discover another route to India, he asked for money to embark on discovering a new route to India and failed ... he discovered a new land instead, created an avenue for trade. That is the typical failure of entrepreneurs, they dream big and fail by achieving something greater. Anyone who sets out to be an entrepreneur solely to make money has failed before he has even started.