Why is it that anyone who sets up a creative website is immediately branded an entrepreneur? I mean some of the guys who set up the Pixel sites after Alex Tew made a million were immediately called online "Entreprenuers". Even the press releases were fake because they were written by themselves... these guys think submitting a press release would get them traffic and publicity...when the actual idea is a copycat... what we need is something new and different..youtube was good...myspace was amazing...but we need something that will make people notice..
Yes.New and different is good.But the problem is that you need money and effort to make your unique site a big hit at the first shot.If it's stuck at the middle and some big company thinks it a good idea they will steal it and people will instead thought that your's is a copycat..
An entrepreneur (a loanword from French introduced and first defined by an Irish economist named Richard Cantillon) is a person who undertakes and operates a new enterprise or venture and assumes some accountability for the inherent risks. In the context of the creation of for-profit enterprises, entrepreneur is often synonymous with founder. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entrepreneur So it doesnt have to be something new or unique. On a slightly side note, Entrepreneurship is my major in college.
en·tre·pre·neur (Ån'trÉ™-prÉ™-nûr', -nÊŠr') pronunciation n. A person who organizes, operates, and assumes the risk for a business venture. p.s. even the bad, money losing ideas, make one an entrepeneur
Ummm... well press releases are intended to bring publicity, so they'd be entirely right in thinking that. And it's not "fake" if you write it yourself. Most companies put out their own press releases. If not, they hire a consultant or a firm. It's always from the company's / owner's perspective. The only thing that shouldn't be put out directly by them is the story itself... which depends on whether it's picked up by a good or lazy journalist / blogger.
A good point, but I don't quite agree with you. If someone sets up a business to make money, he is still an entrepreneur, whether he succeeds or not.
Being an entrepreneur is easy; anyone can do it by starting up some time of business venture (even setting up a lemonade stand in front of your house.) Being a successful entrepreneur...ahh, that is much more difficult.
There is a huge, dark, bolded, italicized, explosive line between being a successful entrepreneur and being a failure. Run the gauntlet and find out if your 9-5 or something greater.
Richard Branson - Read his book, read everything you can written by him You don't have to be first you just have to have the stones and be better at it.