For me it's always a huge red flag when somebody calls themselves an entrepreneur (or CEO of... themselves and their 1-person company). It indicates they care about the prestige and position rather than making things.
Entrepreneur is a silly word, and you sound silly when you call yourself one
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Re: Entrepreneur is a silly word, and you sound silly when you call yourself one
#12Damned, I will change my LinkedIn profile; I didn't know it was sounding pompous :-) For me, an "entrepreneur" (french word) is someone who undertake an "entreprise". An "entreprise" is not necessarily a company or a business. It is a kind of project. You could say that preparing a party or a wedding is an "entreprise".
To most of the world, and entrepreneur is defined as somebody who finds opportunities to exploit for a profit.
Re: Entrepreneur is a silly word, and you sound silly when you call yourself one
#13Same argument can be made about people calling themselves CEO of startups with no employees or product.
Ditto for the silliness of slapping engineer or hacker like marketing engineer or growth hacker.
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#14Yay pointless, judgmental semantics. Let's worry about this instead of doing the other things.
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#15It's one of those words that somehow become a status symbol and lose their meaning.
Like, well, hacker: I cringe every time someone writes "hacker" in his/her bio without stuff to show for it. Usually it's UI developers, I don't know why.
All around, I started to discard every word that comes with this burden. Words should convey information, not a self blowjob.
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#17"Entrepreneur" is a french word.
"Entre" means between and "Preneur" means parts. A indirect english synonym would be middleman. Traditionally, it was referring to people in the building industry that set up building site with plumber, electrician, workers... So, a freelancer is not an entrepreneur. Strictly speaking if you don't have any employees you are not an entrepreneur.
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#18is the era of startup culture, pseudo entrepreneurship, and the like finally coming to an end? Posts like this and Southpark regaling us at startup cultures expense...
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#19Same argument can be made about people calling themselves CEO of startups with no employees or product.
If I bootstrap something, I will call myself "Leader Maximo" or, to honor my country, "Dux".
Unless CEO means "Chief Everything Officer."
Re: Entrepreneur is a silly word, and you sound silly when you call yourself one
#20Damned, I will change my LinkedIn profile; I didn't know it was sounding pompous :-) For me, an "entrepreneur" (french word) is someone who undertake an "entreprise". An "entreprise" is not necessarily a company or a business. It is a kind of project. You could say that preparing a party or a wedding is an "entreprise".
With your interpretation, someone who is cataloging all of their shits for a month and posting them reddit is an entrepreneur.