CHAPTER 1

What Is an Entrepreneur?

Being an entrepreneur is a way of life, a lifetime commitment to free yourself from the limits imposed on you by others and a conscious choice and desire to set your own path in life, limited only by your own ambitions.

This chapter will focus on the concept of a true entrepreneur, and it will answer the question of: What is an entrepreneur? Obviously, an entrepreneur is a person who practices entrepreneurship. But, the answer is not that simple. First, you need to identify what the current, or most accepted, definition of entrepreneurship is. Entrepreneurship has traditionally been defined as the process of designing, launching, and running a new business, or one that organizes, manages, and assumes the risks ...

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