My personal definition of “Entrepreneur”

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Sometimes I am asked about my personal definition of “Entrepreneur”. There are lots of them around there but what I like the most is to say that an entrepreneur is a person that sees the same as everybody else, in contrast to the rest, decides to do something about it.

Officenet is a good example of this. Andy Freire and I did not invent anything. The opportunity to create a company to profesionalize the office supplies industry was obvious and had been there for a long time. We were not even the first ones to see it. After Officenet was launched, many people told us they had thought there was potential to start up a company to do just that. Andy and I were merely the first ones (in Argentina and Brazil) to cut to the chase and get going.

I like this definition because it separates the Entrepreneur from the Visionary and desacralizes the idea that you have to have a special gift to start a venture.

Opportunities are there around us, at all times. Everyone sees them.
Rolling up your sleeves and doing is the key difference

photo by Gaetan Lee

Fergal Tully says:

September 2, 2009 at 1:37 am

The good thing about office supplies and office technologies is that it is relatively easy to get into. However to make it a successful business you have to do something different from the rest, this is where it gets tough. I have to admire Andy for doing this and being successful.