I met these two amazing guys at Hackerspace
over the weekend.

One introduced himself as an Entrepreneur and the other, a Businessman. However, both of them had young businesses and I asked the businessman why he didn’t call himself an Entrepreneur. His reply was simple;

“I do retail, it’s not as interesting as a startup.”

The Entrepreneur jumped on hearing this and vehemently disagreed. I disagreed too.

An Entrepreneur is a person who organizes and manages a business undertaking, assuming the risk for the sake of the profit.

This Businessman was mistaken about entrepreneurship and I believe the fault is largely with today’s media outlets. Startups have been glamorized. Web 2.0 has been glamorized. Founders have been made akin to rockstars. The process has been glamorized. The struggle has been dramatized. But the point of all this, profits, has been completely forgotten.

Every young business out there was a startup. And every self-created Businessman is an Entrepreneur. An Entrepreneur who’s already made it.