Entrepreneurship
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Entrepreneurship is the creation or extraction of economic value in ways that generally entail beyond the minimal amount of risk, and potentially involving values besides simply economic ones.
Emil Jellinek-Mercedes (1853–1918), here at the steering wheel of his Phoenix Double-Phaeton
In 2012, Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women's Issues Melanne Verveer greets participants in an African Women's Entrepreneurship Program at the State Department in Washington, D.C.
Student organizers from the Green Club at Newcomb College Institute formed a social entrepreneurship organization in 2010.
Dell Women's Entrepreneur Network event in New York City
Businessperson
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A businessperson, also referred to as a businessman or businesswoman depending on the gender, is an individual who has founded, owns, or holds shares in a private-sector company. A businessperson undertakes activities to generate cash flow, sales, and revenue by using a combination of human, financial, intellectual, and physical capital to fuel economic development and growth.
CNOOC Group Chairman Wang Yilin (left) shaking hands with BG Group CEO Chris Finlayson in 2013