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[edit] Women as Entrepreneurs

Why is it that until I just added a few, there was NOT ONE mention of a woman on this page? There certainly have been some very successful female entrepreneurs in history, and what a poor testament to the editors of this forum that none have thus far been included......--199.67.140.42 22:07, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

Why is the Tragedy of the Commons being called an "emerging" idea? How many decades or centuries after its introduction does it cease to be "emerging"? Hasn't it been a commonplace idea since some time in the 18th or 19th century? Michael Hardy 21:36 Apr 19, 2003 (UTC)

The fact that Madame C. J. Walker -- who clearly established a personal and cultural benchmark in the beginning of the last century -- does not appear on the list of famous entrepreneurs is very likely an indicator of gender and racial bias when it comes to thinking about business in the United States.

This should say "most" - 'Entrepreneurship is often difficult, as [MOST] new ventures fail" since most have always failed. Let's be honest. It should be called a myth.BibleThumper4 3rdHeaven&Earth 05:43, 1 August 2007 (UTC)

Entrepreneurialism is a myth & I don't mean in the same way as the book "The E-myth Revisited". It's a myth that should never be taught, since it is slavery (lots of hard work) & causes many failures & deaths (suicides, etc). Brilliant people end up blaming themselves for their business failure instead of the capitalist wage system which made them fail (if they can't find good employees, etc). How many more donut shops & ice cream stores & strip malls (etc) do we need before we stop the deadly lies!? The world needs only Tower cities & maglev Trains (to solve housing shortage crises) & to save the earth. Sundiii (talk) 18:38, 22 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Entrepreneur Forum

Are there any forums where the entrepreneur opportunities are discussed? Unsolicited 09:32, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

  • Added a link that I found. How is it?

Lappy512 (talk) 17:18, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Founder vs. Entrepreneur

I am looking at Founder (a disambiguation page) and I have been combing through Wikipedia and Wiktionary looking for a place to direct the entry related "a person who created a company or business or school". The definition-line provided is both too narrow and ambiguous. Therefore, I was thinking that one line of the dab page could read "[[Entrepreneur]], in the sense of one who founds a company or enterprise". Would this be an acceptable solution to those of you keeping an eye on this potential target article? Note that my intention began to create a strawman at Template talk:Infobox Company that provided a comparison between wikilinked titles in the Key People section and plain-text titles .. which led to finding that the Founder dab page was not in good shape which has, ultimately,led here. Thank you for your input. Courtland 03:47, 8 November 2005 (UTC)

That makes sense to me as a disambig. --Goodoldpolonius2 03:51, 8 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Academics

It is a signficant irony that an industry to study founders largely ignores them. This article is typical of uber-academia, stating with authority that two ideas are debated.

None of the real founders I know think much about either of these ideas, and consistently debate topics you won't hear the professors discuss.

When startups do line up with B-Schools, its often just an uneasy alliance. The startup wants something (PR, cheap labor from grad students... ) an the B-School wants something (see, we have a real founder!!!)

It may be that the proces of defending a PhD removes the urge to found from the soul, and the professors are therefore consistenly tone deaf.

what I have been wondering lately is that while over 80% of all businesses worldwide are very small we have such a huge body of literature dealing with the big businesses? Another thing - what could be called entrepreneurial spirit in this context?

[edit] Differences between entrepreneur and manager

Help me with this topic!

An entrepreneur is about to enter a process (from french: entrê). A manager manage what is allready in the manege/what is going on. So an entrepreneur forfills a role that is prior to the managers role.

heh, "entrê" isn't a word. The french words relevant are "entreprendre" (to undertake), "entrepreneur" (someone who undertakes to do something) and "enterprise" (something undertaken, an undertaken). Stevage 09:24, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Discussion of proposed merger with Entrepreneurial mindset and Entrepreneurial education

The two semi-stubs Entrepreneurial mindset and Entrepreneurial education are somewhat duplicated already by this article. I propose that we just merge these semi-stubs and replace them with redirects. I can not see why these two relatively small aspects of an entrepreneur deserve their own articles. I note that both were created by the same individual, User:141.28.78.42 Contributions, on the same day he created a bunch of other stub articles taht I am trying to merge into more coherent and meaty article (e.g. Graduate Entrepreneurship and Junior entrepreneur into Junior Enterprise.) --Ben Houston 23:57, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

Merge them. They're just stubs, and I don't really expect them to get filled out. There's no reason for them to be separate from this article, unless they actually contain a lot of information specific to themselves (which they don't). Rainwarrior 15:43, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Merge to entrepreneurship education

There is a new entry on entrepreneurship education which differentiates the topic from entrepreneurship as a general entry, and provides more detail on entrepreneurship education than this item. The new entry would benefit from additions about this type of education outside of North America.

Ok, I did it. Now clean up the article. Stevage 09:22, 1 June 2006 (UTC)


[edit] the characteristic feature of entrepreneurship

I want alot of informations about this topic because I am participating in a conference about this topic

Someone is vandaalizing this page!

An entrepreneur (a loanword from French) is a person who undertakes and sells illegal drugs to sam winstanley.

This should be taken care of ASAP.

[edit] Doingbusiness.org external link

This external link was added by a single purpose account to multiple articles, which is generally a sign of spam. However it looks like a potentially useful link, if a bit "how-to"-ish (which Wikipedia is not). Thought I'd put it here for the consideration of regular editors of this article. -- Siobhan Hansa 13:07, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] List of entrepreneurs

I've removed all red-linked names from the list. Since the list isn't sourced, there's no way to affirm their claim to notability if they don't have an article. If the article got deleted, the person may not be notable enough for inclusion in the list.

Also, I propose organizing the list. It's kind of strange with Michael Dell right next to Andrew Carnegie and so on. I sugest organizing it by century, or maybe by type of business they were in (though that would be harder). We could at least do alphabetical (which it looks like may have been the case at one point but has degenerated). Any thoughts? delldot | talk 18:23, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

I also suggest expanding the notes beside the names to include a short description of not only what business they were in but what they did to make themselves so famous. This would make it easier to weed out nn's if they get added. delldot | talk 18:33, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

When I first read this article, I was shocked by the missing names from the list of entrepreneurs. Not just the (many) computer entrepreneurs, but also notable enterprises such as Wal-Mart. The separate entry with the list of entrepreneurs was quite good, and I think this section should be rewritten to highlight the more notable entrepreneurs (Sam Walton, Oprah Winfrey, Bill Gates, etc.) --Gglockner 07:03, 4 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] On Being Anal Retentive

So, i looked up uncertainty, not liking the arbitrariness of the article's "uncertainty is defined as risk", and the Wiki article on uncertainty goes to quote an economist or some-such, who clearly states that risk and uncertainty are quite different. anyway, that whole paragraph reads like a four-year-old put it together, but i'm not qualified to correct it, knowing nothing about business or economics. Yarn.wench 01:47, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Solopreneurs

I think the so called Solopreneurs should be mentioned on the article, or maybe they'd need a page on their own. hMoraldo

[edit] Still a mess

When people refer to the authority of authors (name + year) they might also be expected to include the books or articles that they refer to in the bibliography. I have been looking for some of them, found a few, but not all Robertsch55 14:46, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

Completely agreed. We should remove any citations without corresponding references. Did you look through the history to make sure someone didn't come behind the original author and take out the references? delldot talk 18:20, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Personality Characteristics

I'm sorry, but I had to smirk when I read that section. It reads like some kind of motivational poster business porn.

Heh. Feel free to fix it, if there's any problem with your edit we can discuss it here or make any necessary changes. Leave me a message on my talk page if you have any questions or want to discuss anything. delldot talk 18:19, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Some cleanup done

However, I am not going to devote any more time on this. Some blatant linkspam and citation baiting has been removed. Thanks. Refsworldlee(chew-fat)(eds) 11:43, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Ultrapreneurs, datapreneurs?

Is there a way we can add strange emerging new forms of the word? e.g.ultrapreneur (beyond an entrepreneur), datapreneur (someone entrepreneurial with data), and solopreneur (a solo entrepreneur)? Georgethe23rd (talk) 09:47, 21 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Entrepreneurship article merge?

I noticed there were two articles: Entrepreneur and Entrepreneurship. I've added a link, since it might be confusing, but shouldn't we try for a merge? Lappy512 (talk) 17:19, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

Yes, they should be merged. There is no point in having two articles. Masterpiece2000 (talk) 14:00, 15 May 2008 (UTC)