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The term "ethnic entrepreneurship" refers to self-employed business owners who belong to racial or ethnic minority groups in Europe and North America. [63] A long tradition of academic research explores the experiences and strategies of ethnic entrepreneurs as they strive to integrate economically into mainstream U.S. or European society.
An entrepreneur is an owner or manager of a business enterprise who makes money through risk and initiative. [1] This list includes notable entrepreneurs. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
Baumol has argued that entrepreneurship can be either productive or unproductive. [15] Unproductive entrepreneurs may pursue economic rents or crime. Societies differ significantly in how they allocate entrepreneurial activities between the two forms of entrepreneurship, depending on the 'rules of the game' such as the laws in each society.
Here, for example, is Iraqi American Reem Hassani explaining how she found the inspiration to co-found Numi Organic Tea, the world’s largest fairtrade tea company: “Entrepreneurs need to ...
In 2002, the Schwab Foundation and the World Economic Forum endorsed Endeavor as one of 40 leading examples of social entrepreneurship worldwide. [6] In 2007, MercadoLibre was the first Endeavor company to go public on NASDAQ. [citation needed] In 2008, Wences Casares, one of the first Endeavor entrepreneurs, joined its board of directors. [7]
American business history is a history of business, entrepreneurship, and corporations, together with responses by consumers, critics, and government, in the United States from colonial times to the present.
Minority entrepreneurship refers to entrepreneurial activity (new business creation) by individuals who belong to a minority group.In the United States, minority groups often include people who identify as African American, Hispanic, or indigenous; these social groups do not own businesses at a rate commensurate to their share of the population.
Female entrepreneurs are women who organize and manage an enterprise, particularly a business. [1] Female entrepreneurship has steadily increased in the United States during the 20th and 21st century, with number of female owned businesses increasing at a rate of 5% since 1997.