Comments on: By the Way, What is an Entrepreneur? http://bizmaverickblog.com/by-the-way-what-is-an-entrepreneur/ Helping small businesses get started and grow. Wed, 04 Jan 2012 21:54:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.3 By: John Hoff - eVentureBiz http://bizmaverickblog.com/by-the-way-what-is-an-entrepreneur/comment-page-1/#comment-8 John Hoff - eVentureBiz Mon, 22 Sep 2008 15:25:20 +0000 http://bizmaverickblog.com/?p=47#comment-8 Hello Bob. To say someone is not an entrepreneur simply because they do not have employees is ridiculous. This guy Michael Gerber has it wrong. If I do what I've always done (immediately after graduating high school) I'd be working a 9 to 5 job and snowboarding on the weekends. Instead I have learned the real estate profession and made money in investing through my own ventures. I have no employees there. I find a property, higher out work, and fix up a house and sell it. What makes me an entrepreneur is I'm off doing my own thing educating myself and finding ways to create wealth from my own knowledge and experiences. <em>John Hoff - eVentureBiz's last blog post..<a href='http://eventurebiz.com/blog/general-partnerships-a-not-so-great-business-structure/' rel="nofollow">General Partnerships: A Not-So-Great Business Structure</a></em> Hello Bob. To say someone is not an entrepreneur simply because they do not have employees is ridiculous. This guy Michael Gerber has it wrong.

If I do what I’ve always done (immediately after graduating high school) I’d be working a 9 to 5 job and snowboarding on the weekends.

Instead I have learned the real estate profession and made money in investing through my own ventures. I have no employees there. I find a property, higher out work, and fix up a house and sell it.

What makes me an entrepreneur is I’m off doing my own thing educating myself and finding ways to create wealth from my own knowledge and experiences.

John Hoff – eVentureBiz’s last blog post..General Partnerships: A Not-So-Great Business Structure

]]> By: Jeff http://bizmaverickblog.com/by-the-way-what-is-an-entrepreneur/comment-page-1/#comment-7 Jeff Sun, 21 Sep 2008 22:28:57 +0000 http://bizmaverickblog.com/?p=47#comment-7 As an entrepreneur several times over, I can tell you that without the passion (the "fire in the belly") one might have about a business venture, then you could possibly look at it from a more technical, academic position. Some may feel compelled to merely earn a few extra bucks online or buying/reselling goods and gadgets, but have no real sense of what they hope to achieve, let a lone a business plan or marketing plan to try to reach those goals. Yet aren't they still considered "entrepreneurs", merely by participating in the act of doing some kind of small business? Personally, I think that passion set fire to an idea that is then acted out with everything you've got - knowledge, skills, money, time, etc. - and you do your due diligence in setting up your business with successful goals in sight, is the true spirit of the American entrepreneur. <em>Jeff's last blog post..<a href='http://pixelpainter.com/wordpress/?p=17' rel="nofollow">Anticipation…</a></em> As an entrepreneur several times over, I can tell you that without the passion (the “fire in the belly”) one might have about a business venture, then you could possibly look at it from a more technical, academic position.

Some may feel compelled to merely earn a few extra bucks online or buying/reselling goods and gadgets, but have no real sense of what they hope to achieve, let a lone a business plan or marketing plan to try to reach those goals. Yet aren’t they still considered “entrepreneurs”, merely by participating in the act of doing some kind of small business?

Personally, I think that passion set fire to an idea that is then acted out with everything you’ve got – knowledge, skills, money, time, etc. – and you do your due diligence in setting up your business with successful goals in sight, is the true spirit of the American entrepreneur.

Jeff’s last blog post..Anticipation…

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