The Entrepreneur Guy – Broadly speaking, entrepreneurship is characterized by a willingness to take risks in order to make money and improve one’s lot in life; hence, why the word is stretched so thinly in the modern parlance.
Why this is a modern phenomenon, however, lies firmly in the relative difficulty in “going one’s own way” now as compared to previous periods in history.
True, craftsmen and skilled laborers have always had some kind of ability to make their own way in the world but, more often than not, people were confined by their geographic locations, family positions, and educational attainment to a much greater extent in the past than they are today.