A great definition of " entrepreneur" comes from Joseph Schumpeter “an entrepreneur is a person who is willing and able to convert a new idea or invention into a successful innovation… creating new products including new business models. In this way, creative destruction is largely responsible for the dynamism of industries and long-run economic growth.” All enterprises are not entrepreneurs. If we look at different studies, we will see that only about 3% to 12% of a country's population of enterprises are entrepreneurs. But they do come from all sectors and locations.
Most tech startups that get much of the public attention are entrepreneurs, but the entrepreneur population is much bigger than tech startups. I think the best proxy for what an entrepreneur represents in the U.S. can be found in the Inc. 5000 article.
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