Who is an entrepreneur?

Why not everyone is an entrepreneur and why that is totally ok.

Being an entrepreneur is neither good or bad, it is just a group of circumstances that surround what you are doing professionally and a reality of how you do it and what you are doing.

Today we have every organization out there using the term to sell; universities promise students, companies, offer employees that they will transform them into entrepreneurs; but this is not something someone else can do for you, let’s understand why…

The Circumstances:

1. -Uncertainty is real.
2. -You are the last line.
3. -Nobody plans for you.

The Reality:

1. -You are building a personal idea.
2. -You are creating an independent machine.
3. -You are not selling your art.

Dealing with the True, are you?

• If you sell your professional services, you are not an entrepreneur.

If you are part of company payroll, you are not an entrepreneur. (Intrapreneur is a cheesy term, that basically contradicts the whole nature of being an entrepreneur: you work for a company, you have an authority that decides over you, you have a budget (might be limited, but is there) and you accommodate for a single client necessity. Sorry, but an intrapreneur is really an employee of an R&D department.

• If you have an idea and never acted on it, you are not an entrepreneur.
• If you do not have a company you are not an entrepreneur, you might be a merchant, a business people or a professional.

There is no right or wrong, being an entrepreneur is like being an athlete or a student, is not a matter of belief or attitude, is a matter of context. So, let’s focus less on the title and more on the situation; most of the smartest people around entrepreneurship are not entrepreneurs today! Geniuses like Seth Godin or Clayton Christensen are a great example of it.

So enjoy the journey and embrace your reality.