Comments on: The Mind-Numbing Evolution of the Term “Entrepreneur”

By: The Rise of the Starry-Eyed Nonprofit Entrepreneur « Colleen Dilenschneider- Know Your Own Bone

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 16:02:21 +0000

[...] called generation Y an entire generation of entrepreneurs, and I was relieved to read recently that the Gen Y entrepreneurial mentality has finally seeped [...]

By: Weekly Brand Management « Busted Resource

Weekly Brand Management « Busted Resource — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 17:53:22 +0000

[...] and innovator at work without having to quit one’s job. We’re all entrepreneurs (says a good post I discovered through Brazen Careerist). There’s a lot of people out there yelling about the [...]

By: I Don’t Have to Show You No Stinkin Labels

I Don’t Have to Show You No Stinkin Labels — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 14:16:59 +0000

[...] She — Colleen Dilenschneider, in The Mind-Numbing Evolution of the Term “Entrepreneur” — has a point. She goes on: I must admit that when I hear the word (which inundates [...]

By: Navneet

Navneet — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 11:17:48 +0000

Good Article.

By: jonathan

jonathan — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 10:24:28 +0000

Entrepreneur is a wide word, with wide abilities and opportunities. I know, people and media just keep using a word they don’t really know. Sometimes they call one as expert, etc, and the society just don;t realize.

By: Tim Berry

Tim Berry — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 03:24:47 +0000

Really interesting post, this is a great take on how words in general lose their meaning, and I think you’re right on about the word entrepreneur. We’ve seen the same thing happen many times before. Believe it or not (I’m assuming because of your gen Y thing that this was before your time) the phrase “user friendly,” referring to software, actually meant something once. And there was a time when “expert” or “guru” was something nobody ever said about themselves, only about others. I’ve been teaching occasionally at the local university for years, and I was relieved when they changed the name of my class from “Introduction to Entrepreneurship” to “Starting a Business.”