What is Entrepreneurship?
I define Entrepreneurship as engaging in the activities of business creation, developing a new product or service, an Invention, being a strategic thinker who through their efforts creates vast wealth, economic growth, or exceptional philanthropic ventures.
What is an Entrepreneur?
I am an Entrepreneur, Small Business Owner, Coffee consultant, persuasive communicator, mentor, and motivator who encourage my teams to excel.
I am your coach and mentor enabling you to achieve your financial goals and receive the wealth and health you were meant to have.
I love Coffee, and I’m spreading Health and Wealth one delicious cup of coffee, tea and hot chocolate at a time.
Wikipedia defines An Entrepreneur as an owner or manager of a business enterprise who makes money through risk and initiative.
We are people with a dream, vision, or wish to create our own future by starting a company, a business venture, or become totally independent; as in being our own boss. Actually, my wife and I are both Entrepreneurs, however, since legally, she owns our family business, I report to her.
An entrepreneur is a risk taker who has an idea or a dream and follows it through regardless of outcome. Not all entrepreneurs start a business or company. Many Social Entrepreneurs improve our society or the environment. Many Knowledge Entrepreneurs start colleges or universities or other institutions of higher learning. And Political Entrepreneurs create new political parties or groups to try to change government or bring about a change for the better good.
FAMOUS HISTORICAL ENTREPRENEURS INCLUDE:
Benjamin Franklin - one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, author, printer, scientist, postmaster, musician and inventor. Franklin invented the lightning rod, bifocals glasses, the Franklin stove, and the carriage odometer. As a statesman, diplomat, political theorist, postmaster and United States Ambassador to France, Franklin exhibited the traits of a political entrepreneur. Creating the first public lending library and the first fire department showed Franklin as a social entrepreneur as well.
Andrew Carnegie - a Scottish-American industrialist is best known for creating the American steel industry in the late 19th century. Additionally, Carnegie was one of the most important philanthropists of his era, giving most of his money away to establish libraries, schools, and universities in the United States, Great Britain and Canada. He was also called the second-richest man in history after John D. Rockefeller.
MODERN DAY ENTREPRENEURS INCLUDE:
Richard Branson – one of the most admired entrepreneurs of today, he is best known for being the Rebel Billionaire who founded the Virgin Group; Virgin Atlantic Airlines and Virgin Records among the 400 Virgin companies.
Bill Gates - Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates is perhaps the most famous entrepreneur of today. Additionally, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is a phenomenal philanthropic social entrepreneurship venture.
Oprah Winfrey – is the model of a modern-day entrepreneur. She is best known as a talk show host and actress with the highest-rated program in syndication from 1986 to 2011. Additionally, Oprah is a philanthropist who invested her own money and time creating the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls near Johannesburg in South Africa, which started in January 2007, recently graduated the first class.
