Who is an Entrepreneur?

Entrepreneur, an obscure word

According to society, this word describes a person who established an Enterprise, who is a company owner and has risen above all employees.

The term is a lot simpler and broader than that...

"Entrepreneur is everyone that moved by a necessity, make their ideas come to life either by willpower, intelligence or money."

Being an entrepreneur doesn't mean that you are a business owner, nor that you will risk money either. There are many people that make enterprises without them and they are successful. Keeping that in mind, there are a lot of different types of entrepreneurs, here are the main ones:

Business Entrepreneur

This person converts ideas into assets that are translated into money. Examples are company owners, empowered employees and salesmen.

Social Entrepreneur

This person convert ideas into resources that helps his or her community to improve. Good examples are: teachers, field medics and psychologists.

Scientific Entrepreneur

This person converts ideas into theories and then into formulas and experiments so we can improve our lives and technology further. This groups contains physicians, biologists, and economists.  

Ideology Entrepreneur

This person converts ideas into passion and philosophy to make his peers reach a higher understanding of life and the world. Here are writers, philosophers and artists.




As you can see, the world let us make a company out of almost everything. It depends on our willpower to change things around you to make them better. An employee with a new idea on how to make something more profitable, a doctor who find a new decease, an engineer that made a material stronger to last more on earthquakes, an architect that tried a new structure design, all of them are entrepreneurs.

Size doesn't matter

Aside from the types of entrepreneurs there is also the matter of the size. When someone talks to you about a company, a business or something similar you only imagine someone with a physical spot on some kind of market, a big building with tons of employees, a well established restaurant or something similar. Well, the thing is that you don't really need size to be powerful or big, nor any physical thing either. This has been confirmed all over again by Online Enterprises that are worth in millions and are managed by 3 employees with a laptop each; all they needed were their ideas, their willingness to learn and the willpower to keep going.


The real message here is:

"Everyone that makes an idea a reality is an entrepreneur, no matter if it's a product, a theory or an ideal of life. Regardless of the size or complexity of the goal or of when or where you do it, if you made it through, you become someone different, better and wiser, a real entrepreneur." 

Now that you know this, what kind of entrepreneur are you?