Intrepreneur
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An intrepreneur is a person who has an entrepreneur skill set but works within an organisation, enterprise, or venture. This could be within an organisation that seeks the dynamisism of forward thinking employees or incubation companies.
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[edit] Overview
Intrapreneur - The spirit of entrepreneurship within an existing organization. Intrapreneur is a person who focuses on innovation and creativity and who transforms a dream or an idea into a profitable venture, by operating within the organizational environment. Intrapreneurs, by definition, embody the same characteristics as the Entrepreneur, conviction, passion, and drive. If the company is supportive, the Intrapreneur succeeds. When the organization is not, the Intrapreneur usually fails or leaves to start a new company. An Intrapreneur thinks like an entrepreneur seeking out opportunities, which benefit the corporation. It was a new way of thinking, in making companies more productive and profitable. Visionary employees who thought like entrepreneurs. IBM is one of the leading companies, which encourages INTRAPRENEUR.[citation needed]
A Savvy Intrapreneur takes a good idea and makes it better.[citation needed] A Savvy Intrapreneur steps out of the comfort zone of corporate security, to insure s/he creates additional income which at least matches their take home pay. An Intrapreneur works overtime helping to run someone else's business, for the company's future. A Savvy Intrapreneur runs themselves like a business putting in 1 hour a day of overtime for their own financial future.
Developing a career while maintaining position at work requires staying focused as a Savvy Intrapreneur. This takes courage.[citation needed]
[edit] Definition and terminology
In the mid-80s, Gifford Pinchot coined the term "intrapreneur" to describe employees of large corporations hired to think and act as entrepreneurs. New grads may find that an intrapreneurship is just what they need to discover first hand all the ups and down of being an entrepreneur.
Pinchot defines intrapreneurship as "behaving like an entrepreneur when you're employed at a large corporation for the benefit of the corporation as a whole" and believes employment as an intrapreneur prior to trying a hand at entrepreneurship is a great way to get your foot into the entrepreneurial door.
[edit] Etymology
The word "intrepreneur" is a play on the word Entrepreneur highlighting the fact that person is within an organisation as opposed to external ("entre-" is a French variant of the Latin "inter-").
[edit] See also
- General
- Business incubator, Independent contractor, Social entrepreneurship, Internet Entrepreneur, Consultant, E-Myth
- Entrepreneurship education
- Master of Enterprise, Junior Enterprise, Young Enterprise, Business and Enterprise College
- Agorism
- Entrepreneuriat
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[edit] General information
- Pinchot began to develop some ideas about the in-house entrepreneur, calling the concept "intrapreneurship,' a word which has since been trademarked.
- Intracorporate entrepreneurship, as Pinchot defines it, an interpreneur is simply "someone who fills the entrepreneurial role inside a large organization."
- Harper & Row published book, Intrapreneuring: Why You Don't Have To Leave the Corporation To Become an Entrepreneur.
