{"id":1227,"date":"2014-04-28T12:31:21","date_gmt":"2014-04-28T19:31:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/judipiggott.ca\/blog\/?p=1227"},"modified":"2016-05-25T10:35:52","modified_gmt":"2016-05-25T17:35:52","slug":"what-is-an-entrepreneur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/judipiggott.ca\/blog\/what-is-an-entrepreneur\/","title":{"rendered":"Meaning of &#8216;Entrepreneur&#8217;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\"><p>The word <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23Entreprendre&amp;src=hash\">#Entreprendre<\/a> is a French one. Entre = enter, prendre = take. So an entrepreneur is a &#8220;go getter&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23ForumBr&amp;src=hash\">#ForumBr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Nnenna (@nnenna) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nnenna\/statuses\/459762834327732224\">April 25, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Obviously I&#8217;ve been following events at the NETMundial conference in Brazil this week, and this tweet from keynote speaker Nnenna (see previous post) sparked me to add my thinking on the use of this word in the English-speaking world of business..<br \/>\nThanks to Nnenna for her positive interpretation of Entrepreneur, and I want to add\u00a0my ideas to tip the balance further into positive for you values-based entrepreneurs out there:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Although the French verb <em><strong>entrer<\/strong> <\/em>does mean &#8216;to enter&#8217;, the preposition\u00a0<em><strong>entre\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>means &#8216;between&#8217;, both literally and figuratively. Using the prepositional version\u00a0enriches the expression for me.<\/p>\n<p>The French noun <em><strong>preneur<\/strong><\/em> (which is derived from the verb prendre, of course) means &#8216;buyer\/taker\/lessee&#8217; or even &#8216;client&#8217;. And this, too, adds value to the meaning of the term Entrepreneur.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This translation of the term helps\u00a0re-integrate the &#8216;business&#8217; fragment that can be the missing link to success for\u00a0creative\u00a0people with issues about &#8216;selling myself&#8217; or &#8216;selling out&#8217;. To me, it translates as <strong>&#8216;between buyers&#8217;.<\/strong> In other words, an entrepreneur seeks exchange with (entre) another buyer (preneur). It is an egalitarian term as I see it.<\/p>\n<p>Being an entrepreneur does not necessarily imply that one profits at the expense of the other &#8211; or that is not implied in the term itself. It is <em>people<\/em> who misbehave, and who may misinterpret the term.<\/p>\n<p>And so the term &#8216;entrepreneur&#8217;, as co\u2013opted by some in the corporate version of business &#8211; where exchange is not of mutual benefit and is often downright exploitive &#8211; THAT is a corruption of its meaning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\">When I work with artists and others who are blocked in their thinking about the business side of their work, who don&#8217;t see themselves as entrepreneurs, it really helps to\u00a0demonstrate this difference, and to suggest that they reclaim the\u00a0term from the Donald Trumps of the world and own\u00a0it.\u00a0RECLAIM your inner entrepreneur and PROCLAIM it!<\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\">In an egalitarian and mutually beneficial way, of course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The word #Entreprendre is a French one. Entre = enter, prendre = take. So an entrepreneur is a &#8220;go getter&#8221; #ForumBr \u2014 Nnenna (@nnenna) April 25, 2014 Obviously I&#8217;ve been following events at the NETMundial conference in Brazil this week, and this tweet from keynote speaker Nnenna (see previous post) sparked me to add my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8,11,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advocacy","category-creativity","category-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/judipiggott.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/judipiggott.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/judipiggott.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judipiggott.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judipiggott.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1227"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/judipiggott.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1404,"href":"https:\/\/judipiggott.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1227\/revisions\/1404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/judipiggott.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judipiggott.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judipiggott.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}