What’s an Entrepreneur? The Best Answer Ever | Inc.com

Entrepreneurship is the pursuit of opportunity without regard to resources currently controlled.

I agree. Although today you need fewer resources than in the past to get started.

reposting this from today’s bfd as a reminder

I think this is a great idea. Hopefully it will eventually fill a gapping hole in support for getting ideas off the ground in NEO. Dan Moore is a successful entrepreneur, not some ED lifer.

  • The Founder’s Cafe ‘Cleveland’s own serial entrepreneur and extreme-supporter of entrepreneurship, Dan Moore, is launching—and financially supporting—this new series focused on IMAGINING (back of the envelope) stage entrepreneurs and their ideas.’

Now if the area can just muster up more than a measly $30K for funding new ideas. The idea (pardon the pun) around NEO ED circles that entrepreneurs are supposed to be starving artists during the startup phase, as a right of passage, is B.S. People have families to take care of. We’d have more startups and new jobs if this wasn’t the expectation.

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