Back of the envelope (and of couse there are exceptions and subtleties to all these)...
- scale, as in they think about it. Franchising your brand === entrepreneur. Buying a franchise - despite Entrepreneur mag's narrative - does not.
- exit, as in they don't lose sight of it
- hit by a bus (similar to exit). An entrepreneur's brand continues without them.
- innovation and/ uniqueness in product. Opening another cookie cutter lemonade stand don't cut it
- risk, their lens is not about risk, it's about opportunity. That is, where other see risk, the true entrepreneur sees opportunity.
I might have one or two others but that's the basic filter.
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One to add.
- upsetting - I don't like the word disruption. It's over used and it's the wrong goal. The goal is to identify a market and find fit. Disruption in and of itself is silly. That said, if you're not pissing some one(s) off then you're likely not an entrepreneur. Again, another lemonade stand isn't grounds enough to be considered an entrepreneur.
Why? If a word has a perfectly workable definition that everybody is already familiar with, why do we “need” to hijack it with a new, different definition?
- scale, as in they think about it. Franchising your brand === entrepreneur. Buying a franchise - despite Entrepreneur mag's narrative - does not.
- exit, as in they don't lose sight of it
- hit by a bus (similar to exit). An entrepreneur's brand continues without them.
- innovation and/ uniqueness in product. Opening another cookie cutter lemonade stand don't cut it
- risk, their lens is not about risk, it's about opportunity. That is, where other see risk, the true entrepreneur sees opportunity.
I might have one or two others but that's the basic filter.
<edit>
One to add.
- upsetting - I don't like the word disruption. It's over used and it's the wrong goal. The goal is to identify a market and find fit. Disruption in and of itself is silly. That said, if you're not pissing some one(s) off then you're likely not an entrepreneur. Again, another lemonade stand isn't grounds enough to be considered an entrepreneur.