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Seven Top Differences Between Entrepreneurs and Businessmen

Entrepreneurs and businessmen are most of the time interchangeably used. I too have been guilty of using one or the another at times. However, I feel that there is a significant difference between the way entrepreneurs run their venture and businesses run their operation. Entrepreneurship is about assuming risk and accepting whatever rewards or failures that occur subsequently. A businessman on the contrary follows a common path and takes lesser risk than a business owner.Let us look at a few of the points where entrepreneurship is different from running the business.

Entrepreneur have been in the company of making new things
The purpose of business is to recycle these products. Hence clients are a lot more like trading. By trading I mean purchasing goods from one place and selling at the other. This may also involve manufacturing at some step but the fundamental principal continues to be same. Entrepreneurs create new things. They identify a problem and work to create innovative solutions which help reduce or eliminate problems. Even when they do trading, they will apply innovative methods to it. Let me give you a good example. If the who owns retail chain is adding internet sales among his channel, he is just being a businessman looking for new methods for getting more business. However if he goes an creates an innovative product which never existed before, he is being an entrepreneur. Here, he's taken the danger upon himself.
Entrepreneur's "Business" is unique
An entrepreneur will not operate in places that there is already an audience. He will use his scarce money to understand more about new. He will for instance, choose new channels of sales( internet, m-commerce etc), innovative products ( a new software), innovative marketing techniques( viral marketing) etc. He side steps the market that is too competitive and works inside a niche area.
Entrepreneur puts his own money first
Since people are not convinced of his ideas, entrepreneur has to put his money on the line first. He has to show that an industry are available for these products he's creating. Then only he is able to get external finance. This really is as opposed to a regular business, where it's known that market exists and therefore investors are more willing to invest in such businesses
Entrepreneurs dealing with new innovative products have more breakout chances
If the potential risks are high, so are the rewards. A successful entrepreneur reaps more monetary benefits than his business counterpart. A regular business with lower risk can get lower returns on the capital it invests. The surety of creating profit regular clients are more than that of entrepreneurship though.
Entrepreneurs experience more uncertainty than regular businesses
Entrepreneurship is certainly more riskier and uncertain than conducting a regular business. An entrepreneur faces the question almost daily about success of his product, price of developing the product, customer's adoption, team motivation and everything else. There is uncertainty and un-evenness of sales. A normal business however has pretty much regular sales and is less uncertain than an entrepreneurial venture
Entrepreneurs share businesses with team
Entrepreneurs build on vision plus they cannot do it alone. So a business owner constantly must remind his team and himself by what they are creating and why it'll work. An Entrepreneur needs to always look for new ways to motivate the employees. The roles of employees change frequently based on the perceived business conditions In a business however, the roles of employees are same through the life time from the business
Entrepreneurs share the success with the team
Entrepreneurs don't have much cash to provide. So they offer equity to their employees. When the venture works everyone who has a shares becomes rich. Among the prime example is Infosys technologies in Bangalore. It's created so many millionaires simply by distributing equities towards the founders and employees of the company. A company on the other hand is less available to sharing equity with employees and would pay higher salaries to compensate for this.

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I nowhere state that businesses cannot be entrepreneurial or the other way around but that there is a significant differences between your way a entrepreneurial venture along with a business works. A business however may become entrepreneur by doing something innovative while entrepreneur can help to eliminate the uncertainty by being more like a company.

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