My definition of Entrepreneurship is the creation or management of any business, guided by unwavering initiative and passion, and involving great determination and management of risk.
To be an entrepreneur, one must adopt certain traits and think a certain way. It is a level of awareness, motivation, and thought about creating and operating a business of your own, your way!
Many universities and graduate schools attempt to teach entrepreneurship. Many of them even have a curriculum to follow. The entrepreneurship programs I have examined are no more than a collection of business management courses. Studying business management, although helpful in learning business theory, does not make you an entrepreneur. Entrepreneurship is not a degree, but more of an attitude and desire.
If entrepreneurship sounds philosophical to you, it is because it is a belief, more so than it is knowledge. Feel good about this! It is not another school course or complicated material that you will have to force yourself to learn. It is more of a realization or clarification of an awakened desire to create and nurture something that will provide emotional and financial satisfaction.
How can entrepreneurship be truly learned in its most pure form? The lesson begins with a series of very personal questions to ask of yourself. The answers are different for everyone. They are different because the questions mean something different to everyone. They require that you search deep for your own personal needs, purpose, reasons, and motivation. The answers will have a profound meaning to you, and you alone. By starting your personal quest for answers, you will start to see and feel the right path to becoming a true entrepreneur, in every sense of the word.