The buzz about entrepreneurship is everywhere nowadays -- from magazine covers to conferences, hotel lobbies to the White House, and of course, kitchen tables. The French word entrepreneur first appeared in the French dictionary in 1723 to describe a person who organizes and operates a business by taking a financial risk. Since then the word entrepreneur -- and the world -- has completely changed. Today, entrepreneurship is celebrated like never before and it is defined in so many ways -- social entrepreneurship, intra-entrepreneurship, knowledge entrepreneurship, micro-entrepreneurship -- you name it.
In 1975, Harvard professor Howard Stevenson defined entrepreneurship as "the pursuit of opportunity without regard to resources currently controlled." "Resources currently controlled" can be interpreted as limited resources. From that point of view, almost all of us have some level of entrepreneurial challenges.
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