The person who starts the company — spotting the gap, bearing the risk and answering for payroll, from Assyrian caravan financiers to venture-backed founders. "Entrepreneur" comes from the French entreprendre, "to undertake," and it was an Irish-born banker in Paris, Richard Cantillon, who first gave the word its economic meaning: someone who buys at a certain price to sell at an uncertain one, living on the
It is the only profession on this site with no license, no degree requirement and no governing body anywhere on earth. The exam is the market, and it fails roughly half of all new firms within five years in most OECD countries.
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| Autonomy | |||
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The person who starts the company — spotting the gap, bearing the risk and answering for payroll, from Assyrian caravan financiers to venture-backed founders. "Entrepreneur" comes from the French entreprendre, "to undertake," and it was an Irish-born banker in Paris, Richard Cantillon, who first gave the word its economic meaning: someone who buys at a certain price to sell at an uncertain one, living on the
It is the only profession on this site with no license, no degree requirement and no governing body anywhere on earth. The exam is the market, and it fails roughly half of all new firms within five years in most OECD countries.
This page follows the undertaking itself from Assyrian caravan financiers and the medieval commenda contract to the Dutch East India Company, Schumpeter's "creative destruction" and Y Combinator's demo day.
No. Entrepreneurship is unlicensed everywhere; no country requires a qualification to register a company. In practice most successful founders have education and, more importantly, industry experience: a large US Census study published in 2018 found the average founder of the fastest-growing new firms was 45 at founding. Customers and investors, not examiners, decide who continues.
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