When someone isn't actually a business owner yet continues to claim when asked what they do, "I'm an entrepreneur." When they actually don't have any business, idea, or typically intent to do anything other than watching Mogul videos.
Todd: "Oh, I'm an Entrepreneur!"
Jimmy: " Oh, cool. What business do you do?"
Todd: " Well, I'm still in the "Planning Phase" <or> " I'm going to finish my 'plan' first," <or> "Well I have options I'm letting play out. I have options. "
Jimmy: " So, you're... not an Entrepreneur?"
Todd: "Haven't been listening to me? "
Someone who joins a VC firm with the intention of starting a company but who ultimately is unable to commit to a single idea.
Although a successful executive in his last company, as an EIR, John was unable to pull the trigger on a new idea of his own... thus sealing his fate as an entrepreneur in reticence.
The moral underpinnings of being or becoming an entrepreneur include: 1. take care of your business, 2. so your business can take care of your family, 3. so your family can take care of you, 4. so you do not become a burden on your fellow human being or the state, 5. so you are in a position to help your fellow human being and 6. so they can help your business.
When you give a person a fishing rod instead of a fish, you have started him or her on the road to self reliance which is the sine qua non of entrepreneurethics.
1. all he wants to do is just "change the world", 2. but be aware, the hipster entrepreneur values ego validation far more than he does profit or market share
Tony Hsieh is a great entrepreneur who's proven himself over and over again, but he's also the godfather of all hipster entrepreneurs.
They've only been in operation for a year and they're giving back 15% of their profits to charity... WTF, are you kidding me? Are they hipster entrepreneurs or something?
Goddamn hipster entrepreneur. His interests on Facebook are: tea, yoga, and Deepak Chopra.