“a person who sets up a business or businesses, taking on financial risks in the hope of profit“. – Concise Oxford English Dictionary
“…is a person who operates a new enterprise or venture and assumes some accountability for the inherent risks“. – Wikipedia
“one who organizes, manages, and assumes the risks of a business or enterprise“. – Merriem-Webster Dictionary
The definition of an entrepreneur is arguable, yet most of the definitions include the words “risk” and “manage” in some form. Many try to characterise the entrepreneur, and the common qualities are usually commitment, conceptual abilities, leadership, sense of urgency, tolerance of risk, creativity and others.
They can dispute forever, but in the meantime I’m allowing myself to categorize myself under that term. Although I’m still at the very beginning, in some aspects we all are.
My definition of an entrepreneur is “One who is addicted to grabbing opportunities and making them happen“.
That’s right, addiction. It’s that ticklish feeling on the tip of the fingers when a new opportunity arose. It’s when your schedule does not allow you to, but your body leaves you no choice but to make things happen. It’s that craving for grasping the ultimate answer to a 4,000 page question, even when you don’t know the language it’s written in. It’s the desire to “just do it”.
Addiction at its full scale makes you blind to the consequences, the risks, blind to yourself, your body and surroundings. Blind to your loved ones. You will do anything to fulfill your craving. So does entrepreneurship at its full scale. As for me, I’m trying to keep one eye open, because losing yourself in order to fulfill yourself is pointless.
Through this blog I’ll try and share some of my adventures and experiences, with hope that someone finds it interesting or at least amusing. If not, it’s just gonna be a nice bedtime story for the grand-kids. This gives me another idea! Selling custom-style booklets of your blogs! Hard cover books for business blogs, antique style soft-cover diaries of personal blogs, and so on. That could be a cool business, don’t you think?
