entrepreneur

/ɑntrəprəˈnʌr/

/ɒntrɛprɛˈnʊə/

Other forms: entrepreneurs

An entrepreneur is someone who starts a new business. Little stores and huge companies both have entrepreneurs behind them.

Do you have good ideas for products? Are you OK with the idea of risk? Then maybe you should be an entrepreneur. This is someone who founds a business, whether a tiny one or a huge one. Besides starting the business, the entrepreneur takes on the most of the risk by investing their own money and/or bringing in other investors. For an entrepreneur, their business is their baby.

Definitions of entrepreneur

1. noun

   someone who organizes a business venture and assumes the risk for it
   synonyms: enterpriser

   examples:

   William Henry Gates

   United States computer entrepreneur whose software company made him the youngest multi-billionaire in the history of the United States (born in 1955)

   Sir Clive Marles Sinclair

   English electrical engineer who founded a company that introduced many innovative products (born in 1940)

   type of:

   bourgeois, businessperson

   a capitalist who engages in industrial commercial enterprise