Do You Call Yourself an Entrepreneur?

Yes.....I think we can broadly classify ourselves as entrepreneurs....

There's many who meet most of the criteria but fail at the last one.

Sure why not? If your self-employed then you have the Entrepreneur mindset/life style then you are an Entrepreneur weather you like or not

You do own business and it's registered I suppose Hence own your company.
Therefore file your Taxes every year


--Kal.

Yeah... i think most of the marketers fall in the criteria of Entrepreneur .. almost every marketer owns a certain business .. which can also be classified as enterprise but kinda small one ..

Most marketer work alone or with a team .. invest money according to his own will .. and makes profits ...

No - I don't, really.

I suppose technically I could, according to that description, but I just call myself an internet marketer. (And I only do that so John McCabe can ask me how many internets I've marketed.)

In no way, shape or form do I see my self as an Entrepreneur. I see my self as just a regular guy looking to quit his 9-5 job !

Yes, since I was 5 years old.
I used to steal all the toilet paper in my house and sell it for $2 a roll to my parents, or else I would pour water on it. Such an assh#le kid I was

I'm not one to take risks, so I believe I'm not an entrepreneur.

I call myself a serial-entrepreneur because I have done this multiple times.

I think an additional question for this is how many people are making money ONLY from their entrepreneurial endeavors and do not have another job or source of income (other than maybe investments).

Of course. If others don't see us as entrepreneurs, then that's their problem. My definition is having no boss, calling the shots and making money. That's pretty much what entrepreneurship is all about.

Me I'm just a bum in front of my computer more than 15 hours per day.

I was just lucky that after several years of being a bum in front of my computer
I got to work with top internet gurus and learned a lot from research/working
training and actual experience...

But that doesn't change anything I'm still a bum with a computer.

I call myself Yasser

The fact remains that no matter what we do there is always risk of losing involved. You see when you invest time and make nothing you are losing. This is what most modern day entrepreneurs are investing. So I think I am an entrepreneur

I've always been a DOT.COM guy, taking initiative and setting up passive income streams here and there. I consider myself a netrepreneur if you believe it Portfolio of well over 500 sites now, click aff sites, cpa sites, direct sale sites, forum/advertising sites, each has their own inherent level of financial risk..some greater than others, but at the end of the day, it's a spreadsheet with tracked costs and incomes.

It's better that others classify you as such, rather than yourself claiming to be one. That's just my opinion of course.

Absolutely! If you're providing a service and/or product and actively selling it for a profit, then you've got the entrepreneurial spirit and you're thus an entrepreneur. IMO anyone who has the drive to make their own money without being employed by another is an entrepreneur.

Paul

I started out in the living room and now I have office and employees already so I believe I would consider myself as an entrepreneur because you have to be dedicated, hard working, willing to fail, and take risks. If you don't, there is limited chance to make it. Now there are different levels of entrepreneurs, like Steve Jobs an inventor compared to the small business owner but I guess in general sence we are all entrepreneurs.

The definition isn't different. But it's a simple fact that local entrepreneurship awards tend to focus on entrepreneurs who serve the local area. My point being, that doesn't mean other entrepreneurs (such as those whose businesses are based online) aren't entrepreneurs. As you acknowledged, the definition isn't different whether online or offline.

Edit: I see now that your original point in this particular line of argument wasn't that whether you're offline or online affects whether you're an entrepreneur, but rather that one should look at the local entrepreneurship awards as evidence of your idea that innovation is part of the definition of entrepreneurship. I address that idea again below.

Sorry, but show me where in the definition of "entrepreneur" you are seeing the word "innovation." Because it's not there. Please reread the definition of "entrepreneur" in the OP, as I previously suggested. You seem to be making up your own definition.

No. Only business owners "who, by risk and initiative, attempt to make profits." For example, the guy who inherits a profitable business from Daddy, involving no risk or initiative on his part, is not an entrepreneur, although he is a business owner.

You said it's a misconception to think you don't have to make a profit to be called an entrepreneur. A misconception means something that isn't true. If you actually think it's true that you don't have to make a profit to be called an entrepreneur, then you don't think it's a misconception. That's what confused me. :p

Not according to the definition of the word.

Please understand, guys - I'm not trying to make a mountain out of molehill here. But words have definitions, and the word "entrepreneur" does not mean what you seem to think it does.

Simple, but yes.

I truly believe the single ingredient stopping most people from being successful who consider themselves "entrepreneurs" is

The second part of the definition which talks about risk and initiative.

Most people have great ideas, and want the end result, but fail simply because they don't have the balls to take the risks. Being a successful entrepreneur or startup is not how many resources you have but how resourceful you are. I would almost have to say that not having enough when starting out is better because it forces you to think of creative solutions.

AppSumo.com has some excellent free videos on what they call "wantrepreneurs" or basically people who consider themselves entrepreneurs but are too afraid to take the risks they need to succeed.

Not really. But I guess I am technically.

Yeah...most of these people we all talk about today spent a lot of their business days in the red. They had to scrap things together to get into the profit zone. So being an entrepreneur is not all about making money.

I'm a digital drug dealer.

Now, do you want the digital blue pill or the digital red pill?

RoD

P.S. I have a 2-for-1 offer today.........

Yes and I put all my energy and focus into my company.

I personally view all internet marketers as entrepreneurs. They took a risk to start up a business. I think by definition, that's an entrepreneur.

No, I call myself an early-stage serial entrepreneur.