The word gentleman today has been thoroughly abused. Today's definition is of a person who opens doors for women.
That is exactly how we are have desecrated the meaning of the word entrepreneur. Owning a small business or been self employed does not qualify somebody as an entrepreneur. Real entrepreneur are wild card, creative disrupters, risk takers.
They are not comfortable with the status-quo. Profit is not their driving motive but the desire to improve society. They look for problems to solve. Problems are opportunity to them.
Take Nairaland owner for example, he saw the need of people to read comments of others. He could have just followed the crowd and start a blog. Read Peter Drucker book for more on this.
There is a difference between business owner and entrepreneur. Business owner chase profit.