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Re:Entrepreneurism Is Overrated by ekanes on Sunday March 31, 2019 @03:54PM (#19537952)
No, the hairdresser/gardener/accountant etc is self-employed. It's a spectrum, but basically it goes from self-employed but not novel all the way across to world-changing. Both are self-employed, but to the difference between the hairdresser and Elon Musk or Steve Jobs isn't scale. It's novelty.
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Re:Entrepreneurism Is Overrated by AstralStorm on Sunday March 31, 2019 @09:19PM (#19539641)
If so, then Microsoft was not an enterprise and Bill Gates was not an entrepreneur when they started. After all, they bought their software and sold for and established company. Zero novelty involved.

(In that vein, almost all enterprises failed, the second coming of the innovation is where things usually happen. Or later.)

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Re:Entrepreneurism Is Overrated by JohnFen on Sunday March 31, 2019 @06:46PM (#19538931)
> No, the hairdresser/gardener/accountant etc is self-employed.

What do you mean "no"? Being self-employed is pretty much the definition of "entrepreneur"

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