• BUSINESSMAN VS ENTREPRENEUR

• A business can be classified according to ownership structure, such as proprietorship,

partnership or corporation.

• Thus, a businessman can be called as a: proprietor, partner or a stockholder.

• Businesses can also be categorized according to industries, such as trading, servicing and
manufacturing.

• On the other hand, entrepreneurship also comes in different forms.

• It can be in these revolutionary forms, such as social entrepreneurship, ecopreneurship,

technopreneurship and infopreneurship.

• Thus, an entrepreneur can also be called a:

• social entrepreneur,

• ecopreneur,

• technopreneur, or

• infopreneur.

Differences between A Person Who Is Merely Doing Business And One Who Is Doing Entrepreneurship

Businessman or business person

1. Starts a business from an existing idea or concept

2. Has many business rivals

3. Focuses on competition

4. Is always busy on his business “busy-ness”

5. Don’t have enough time for his family and personal life

6. His business gives him a living

7. Traditional

8. Stays safe

9. Worried

10. Profit oriented

11. Has an active income or profit

12. Hire people to increase business productivity

13. A market player

14. Has not yet achieved financial freedom

15. Only gives importance to a part of the business world (atomistic)

Entrepreneur

1. Starts a business from his own unique idea or concept

2. His business rival is himself

3. Focuses on cooperation

4. Is only busy in preparing his new enterprise

5. Have a lot of time for his family and personal life

6. He gives life to his business

7. Innovative and revolutionary

8. Risk taker and accountable

9. Excited

10. People (i.e., employee, customer, public) oriented

11. Has a passive income or profit

12. Hire people to give them productivity

13. A market leader

14. Has achieved financial freedom

15. Gives importance to the business world as a whole

Summary

• From the comparisons above, we can learn that entrepreneurship is not an easy feat compare to
merely doing business.

• We can also realize that an entrepreneur is a business person who has evolved into a more
complete person – one that is not simply a business person but a real human being.
• Being a businessman is good.

• Being profit oriented, market player, business competitor, traditional, busy and active income
earner is not bad since all business owners have been on those stages.

• Even the successful entrepreneurs, before they succeed, have been into that.

• It is just that they have taken the right move to evolve into a better and even the best
businessmen that they can be.

• That is why they become not only businessmen, but rightfully they become entrepreneur.