You're right

When you talk about Entrepreneurs, you talk about people like Akin Alabi of NairaBET

These guys are the pace setters, the visionaries, the game changers, the naturally stubborn and die hard go getters, you name it...

SaulRazor:


God bless you ..I always feel bad when I see people who go to BALOGUN market to buy things and resell the call themselves entrepreneurs..I have been a serial entrepreneur for a while now and it's an insult to people like me and our huge vision, ground breaking thoughts and extreme sacrifice we put into taking an innovation from thought to printing (actually my term) to be compared to a hair reseller or tea reseller ..God bless you for this write up

your post reeks of pride. Whoever has the wisdom to observe where price is low...and buys an item there, then finds out where to sell at a higher price is an entrepreneur.....hell....even if you had an idea you thought was great and you failed at it and you go back to your drawing board penniless doesn't make mean you are not an entrepreneur... as failing and learning is a part of business.

There is this south African guy.... Vusi Thembakwayo who amongst other things is also a venture capitalist.
He said he would never give his capital to a business man who has never experienced failure. He said his money is not for an idea that has not been tested

dustydee:

Source? https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/294549

jesus christ,I dey shame for this Op,on a normal ground I usually share topics like this with my friends,but in this case I feel embarrassed to do so!!!

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PapaBrowne:
Errm, while I understand your point, I'd love to disagree.
Entrepreneurship is Entrepreneurship.

Below is Wikipedia's definition



What you mean is there are different grades of entrepreneurship. You are trying to differentiate​the silicon valley type entrepreneurship from the guy attempting to make a buck selling DVDs on the streets.

The best bet would be to create a new name for the transformative version of entrepreneurship which is what most startups play in.

Just what I was about to say. Thank You.

Not entirely correct. One thing leads to another. Most entrepreneurs started out as ordinary tradesmen or doing what other people were doing till the blazed their own trail. The important thing is improving your endeavour until you build it to become a distinguished brand. It is actually start-ups that drive innovation.

Is Evans an Entrepreneur? He started small

op, may God bless yhu abundantly.
the way our people and the authority talks about entrepreneur tells yhu the level of underdevelopment knowledge we have in this part of the world.

datola:
People like Aliko Dangote who gave us a FCMG company we can be proud of, Linda Ikeji who open our eyes to what blogging is, CEO’s of Konga and Jumia who introduced the E-commerce gig to us, our very own Seun Osewa of Nairaland and Mike Adenuga who without him we wouldn’t have known what per second billing is all about.


When Dangote started selling petty things he was was not an entrepreneur right?

What about when Seun was buying N100 browsing time at Cafe to build Nairaland he was not an entrepreneur?

We are all entrepreneurs in what so ever small start up we are into so far we have the bigger picture to change the world.

The Bible says we should not despise the days of little beginning.

Smart response. Smart dude. I see a smart entrepreneur. You are going places if you stay focused and believe in your dreams. Remember, you will actualize your dreams while you are awake. Keep calm and carry on!

So because of this article I had to sign up to debunk what this well articulated individual put up. Thank you for taking your valuable time to educate as well as put people down who are struggling to start something even without them knowing they are entrepreneurs.

Reading comments and I see 70% of people understand what it means to be an entrepreneur. Putting down small business owners because they might never go PUBLIC is completely Ignorant and in Nigerian terms 'wicked'. Every big company started as a small business trying to make ends meet. Either through buying and selling or offering a service. There is so many factors seen or unforeseen that gets one person to another level and leaves the other struggling. What's most important is the individual in question and its first about character (Grits, Consistency, passion and the willingness to be open minded). Therefore we start off as 'Small Business owners transit to this title 'entrepreneur' way no hep anyone then something generational.

Dear writer pls allow everyone with their hustle whether na Akara woman who most likely fed you this morning and encourage people with your well constructed grammar.

Please if by anyway this person made you feel down kindly follow @Learnermeji www.blancandrouge.com to read about two Nigerian female hustlers give you real time experience about entrepreneurship.

Most of the response on this thread are based on personal bias. A soft centre has been torched and their core belief have been shaken.
When I read peter drucker book, my whole world turned around. It is quite true their are many small business in nigeria. It doesn't matter whether they are big or small.they should all be termed merchant. Because they are after profits and are tapping into the market share of an already existing business. Entrepreneur are creative destroyers. They are problem solvers. They see things we dont. For example uber. They are disrupting the transport business. Entrepreneur are world changers.

Thanks op for making this topic simple to understand. Entrepreneurs make our life easy. They dont compete with anyone because they are Venturing into the unknown. But when they succeed, the merchant eat the crumb that falls from the table. When henry Ford popularized auto mobile. The horse riders were the merchants But henry Ford was an entrepreneur. He destroyed their means of livelihood while creating a new one. Entrepreneur is different from business man. I rest my case

When the comedy industry was still at infancy. The trail blazer was ali baba. In short entrepreneur leads then merchants follow. They want to copy instead of carving a niche. Opening another new hotel is not entrepreneurship but changing the hotel business is. It doesn't matter if it is the most beautiful hotel. What problems are all these mum and pop shop solving? They just exist and hope the market can accommodate them also.

Queenlovely:
Most of the response on this thread are based on personal bias. A soft centre has been torched and their core belief have been shaken.
When I read peter drucker book, my whole world turned around. It is quite true their are many small business in nigeria. It doesn't matter whether they are big or small.they should all be termed merchant. Because they are after profits and are tapping into the market share of an already existing business. Entrepreneur are creative destroyers. They are problem solvers. They see things we dont. For example uber. They are disrupting the transport business. Entrepreneur are world changers.

I've same belief as OP, just that she gave examples of persons who are already established.

hisMrs:
it pains me that u are pampering the OP with ur words, even if she was a science student, entrepreneurship is a compulsory course for every student, right from high sch to undergraduate level. This OP just chose to b ignorant.

Mumsie I just try being diplomatic so she could see the error she made rather than focusing on the various bashing she had gotten.

Lalas247:


Her topic is so flawed I just shown my colleague this topic and they are laughing asking if that's how they think in Nigeria
I feel so embarrassed

She doesn't even know what a small business is .. sole trader , Ltd ..

Pls tell ur friends we don't think like that in naija but we definitely have some aproko over sabi pple like the op

hmmmm

DAVE5:


Pls tell ur friends we don't think like that in naija but we definitely have some aproko over sabi pple like the op

haha ok I will

cdoffx:

Mumsie I just try being diplomatic so she could see the error she made rather than focusing on the various bashing she had gotten.

Popsi I do not see this a being bashed, she's only being corrected.

newacca:


Smart response. Smart dude. I see a smart entrepreneur. You are going places if you stay focused and believe in your dreams. Remember, you will actualize your dreams while you are awake. Keep calm and carry on!

Amen in Jesus name.

Thanks and God bless you.