Entrepreneur vs. Businessman

Many people use these two words interchangeably. After all, both are engaged in business - an entrepreneur is one who is in the start-up stage of the business and a businessman is one whose business has already gone the tests of time.

I beg to disagree. Entrepreneurship is neither determined by the length of time you have invested in business nor the size of your company by cash flow. 

While it can be argued that an entrepreneur is a kind of businessman – or a man engaged in the trade of goods, services or both, an entrepreneur is one who always has innovation on top of his mind. It is his continuing search for something to offer that will ultimately delight his desired customer. This is the characteristic that separates an entrepreneur among the rest. 

Entrepreneur Magazine have featured the rags-to-riches stories of the wealthiest tycoons in the country - John Gokongwei, Henry Sy and Lucio Tan who started their entrepreneurial careers started in the outbreak of the world war. 

But what I love to see and read are not the story of “already big” people but rather the story of “small” people with BIG ideas. Those despite of being a busy mother of her children can manage to fufill her entrepreneurial drives, those despite a financially trying working-student life is committed to finish his studies and go full blast with his business concept – they aren’t only entrepreneurs but heroes too in their own rights.

Will look for some stories and post them here.