What is an entrepreneur?
An entrepreneur is a person who has possession over a company, enterprise, or venture, and assumes significant accountability for the inherent risks and the outcome. The term is a loanword from French and was first defined by the Irish economist Richard Cantillon. Entrepreneur in English is a term applied to the type of personality who is willing to take upon herself or himself a new venture or enterprise and accepts full responsibility for the outcome. In common understanding it is taken as describing a dynamic personality.
(Source: Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entrepreneur)
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- 85% of Members desire an opportunity to have dinner with the CEO..
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Getting To Know
Cecilia Navarro
- Role:
- Founder of SBDC Social Entrepreneurship Consulting Group and 2007 Entrepreneurship Society Exceptional Achievement Award Recipient
- Hometown:
- Santa Cruz, Bolivia
- Major:
- Economics, Politics, and Philosophy
- Contact:
- cnavarro@nd.edu
- Employment:
- Economics Consulting in Florida
