An entrepreneur is in my opinion someone who takes the risk to create something, be it a business model or something else, not necessarily something totally unique. After all, why reinvent the wheel?. While on the other hand you have the so called gurus or moguls who are self titled "experts". I think there's a lot of difference between being a vissionaire and someone who just brags about knowing it all.

Basically my beef with this whole thing was people using fancy titles for themselves to make them sound more important.

Technically though, I think anyone who "actively" assumes a risk is an entrepreneur. If you throw up a blog, only post twice a week and hope to make 5K/month in AdSense revenue, then no, I don't think you're an entrepreneur.

But, if you start a blog, post multiple times a day, create your own products to sell and actively promote your online presence, then whether you're making a $1/day, or $1,000/day, you're an entrepreneur.

Just my 2 cents.

Insightful post.

Yuwanda

I don't think most blogs really count as a real 'risk' money wise. Under $50 a year hosting and domain is not much for most people. If your blog is a free blog then there is zero risk.

Maybe if you count the investment of time into a blog as a risk then perhaps. But really unless you have something to lose it's not really a risk. Therefore I wouldn’t count 99.9% of Bloggers as 'Entrepreneurs'. Just my 2 cents…

n. A person who organizes, operates, and assumes the risk for a business venture.

I think you need a certain amount of success before you can call yourself an entrepreneur.
However I do not necessarily think you have to do something original to be entrepreneur. There are self made millionaires out there who haven’t necessarily done something original but what they have done, is do something very well.