When someone comes across a new word they don’t know, what do they usually do? Do you suppose they ignore it, would you? Or do you think they pull out the dictionary and look it up? The smart thing to do would be to look it up. If your goal is to go into business for yourself, then perhaps you may want to define the word entrepreneur and ask yourself are you an entrepreneur?
One of the definitions you’ll find on entrepreneur is a person or business person who finances a business venture or initiates an emerging commercial enterprise. So in short its a person who provides the capital for a business. Another definition is someone who takes on the task of organizing and managing any enterprise or business usually accompanied with considerable initiative and risk. You may be surprised to find that a contractor an employer or productive labor can also fall into this entrepreneur category and last but not least is the new age type of entrepreneur an internet entrepreneur. This type of person or persons that applies innovation in the creation of business on the internet is also considered digital entrepreneurs.
Some Famous Internet Entrepreneurs
1) Bill Gates and Paul Allen
(passed down to Ray Ozzie and Craig Mundie from Bill Gates) – Microsoft – MSN
2) Bob Parsons – Go Daddy
3) Caterina Fake and Stewart Butterfield -Flickr
4) Chad Hurley, Steve Chen (YouTube) and Jawed Karim – YouTube
5) Craig Newmark – Craigslist
6) Evan Williams – Twitter
7) Jason Calacanis – Mahalo.com
8) James H. Clark and Marc Andreessen – Netscape
9) Jeff Bezos – Amazon.com
10) Jerry Yang and David Filo – Yahoo
11) Jimmy Wales- Wikipedia
12) Kevin Rose – Digg
13) Mark Zuckerberg – Facebook
14) Max Levchin, Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, and Luke Nosek – Paypal
15) Michael Arrington – TechCrunch
16) Milun Tesovic – Metrolyrics.com
17) Pierre Omidyar and John Donahoe – eBay
18) Reed Hastings – Netflix
19) Sam Morgan (entrepreneur) – TradeMe
20) Sergey Brin & Larry Page – Google
21) Shawn Fanning – Napster
22) Sky Dayton – EarthLink
23) Todd Wagner and Mark Cuban – Broadcast.com
24) Tom and Chris DeWolfe – Myspace
The power of the internet has given beginners the benefit of easy research to an abundance of information and online business ideas. As a result many individuals have prospered from such easy access to so much internet information available to them. Nowadays the home-based job is far easier to accomplish and the entrepreneur who wants to become successful with a business idea can do so even with a shoe string budget. This was something that was thought to be impossible before the birth of the internet.
Choosing an online business as a business alternative, allows someone to be the boss of their own ideas giving them the freedom to conduct business using their own personal style and ideas. Ideas that often may have went over looked or credited to the another boss in a brick and mortar business. Many individuals choose to test the waters of the internet business world, as a part time project for extra income while keeping their full time day jobs, as they hone their entrepreneur skills.
Many have come to realize, that once they have chosen the business that is right for them. They can spring into action immediately. With the many resources available, some gain financial success instantly and develop a game plan that can be repeated over and over for higher profits.