entrepreneur
Entrepreneur, if I hear this word one more time I think I'm going to scream. I'm beginning to really hate this over used word.
Currently, I hate the word Entrepreneur and all the aspirational arrogance that goes with it. Pah! :-x
- So many arrogant wanabes calling themselves entrepreneurs just because they built a mobile phone app (or are planning too),
- So many media articles designed to make you feel inadequate because you are not an entrepreneur, that by not doing so one is missing the boat, and in not doing so one feels they are lazy and unfulfilled.
- So many ill thought out waste of money initiatives aimed at turning numpties with ill thought out ideas into entrepreneurs.
Currently, I hate the word Entrepreneur and all the aspirational arrogance that goes with it. Pah! :-x
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*gets coat*
George W Bush
(didn't actually say it)
Somewhere along the line it's come to mean anyone running a non-state owned business with the intention of making money. We already have a word for this - "businessperson". I'm guessing that people have latched-onto entrepreneur because they think it makes them sound dynamic and sexy. "Businessperson" sounds dusty and staid, someone in a bowler hat who's little more than a glorified bean-counter; someone managerial. Ultimately, though, that description tends to be the most apt.
Great post. :)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_D%27Aloisio
he was doing a radio interview , thats how I knew
That's just one of many. Although good on that lad for having the drive and energy not only to build a respectable app, but better still for marketing and presenting it to a standard way above his years. One thing I have learnt is that good marketing, and unfaltering confidence in the way the product is presented can turn a mediocre idea into a success.
However, the day I started this thread I had just seen one to many aspiring, arrogant individuals with not much to bring to the table. I had also read and heard on the radio one to many articles about entrepreneurship, only to come home turn on the telly and see those rude and arrogant investors on Dragon's Den.
business is like that though at times, if you have worked somewhere a bit cut throat (e.g. commission) you get to see a nasty side of folk.
The goal for many back then was being self employed. Lots of people borrowed money which was cheap at the time, then the interest rates rose and many lenders simply asked for their money back.
I agree that the word is being branded around a lot at the moment, but perhaps the purpose is to kickstart the "ideas into a business process". If it takes one person off the dole then that reduces outgoings from the state.
Most start ups will fail within a year, if you are self employed and it fails, you won't be able to claim any benefits for 6 months (I think!).
Wrong.
If you are self employed, you can still claim and declare anything you earn - you are allowed to keep ?15pw and the rest is taken off your JSA.
What I was saying is that if you declare yourself self employed to the tax man, if it all goes belly up, then its no JSA for 6 months. On the other hand, you will have enjoyed a very low rate of income tax during the period you were making money.
When you go over 16hrs a week, you can claim working tax credits..
If you get no work, you are back down on your hours, so go back to the JSA - there is no 6 month limit.
You won't get contribution based JSA though because you haven't been paying class 1 national insurance.
Isn't working tax credit for people working more than 30 hours?
Anyway, surely the whole point of being an entrepreneur is that you make your own way? And hopefully make more than ?15 a week!
yeah being a paper boy isn't proper work. :p
For lone parents and people over a certain age (50, I think, but I'm not sure) it's 16 hours, for most others it's 30 hours.