Becoming an Entrepreneur

Following is the “white paper” essay of the lecture Social Entrepreneurship – An Objective Perspective, given at the University of Victoria and the University of Calgary in 2020, which can be viewed on YouTube at https://youtu.be/g987nJy_n7c. Synopsis Enterprises are traditionally defined as either for-profit businesses or non-profit organizations.  The social enterprise is a new classification …

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An entrepreneur is often thought of as someone who launches a new venture entailing high risk with the potential of acquiring great wealth.  Even though many entrepreneurs have become wealthy, entrepreneurship is about producing wealth, not acquiring it. Nor is entrepreneurship defined by the degree of risk one takes, but rather the creativity and productivity one …

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Why would anyone want to become an entrepreneur?  Is it for the opportunity to acquire wealth? Is it for the fame and recognition from one’s peers and society? Such are the reasons often attributed to why someone would want to become an entrepreneur.  Some entrepreneurs do achieve them, even though the majority does not. Here …

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