Mr. Eric Ries Knows What They Have In Common.

If you think the ramen-slurping garage dwellers you see in the movies are what starting a business is really like, then you need to watch this video.

You don’t need to own a business to be an entrepreneur. The definition of that word is morphing, as technology puts the fundamental tools for managing and organizing a business into anyone’s hands. You can be an entrepreneur from within a corporate organization, or while still in high school — it’s become a way of life more than an approach to business. But as Lean Startup author Eric Ries points out in this week’s Build-A-Business mentor lesson, most of us still tend to think of entrepreneurs as the ramen-slurping garage dwellers portrayed in movies. “Everyone thinks they’re crazy, and then fast-forward boom all of a sudden they are on the cover of magazines,” he says. “But what makes you an entrepreneur isn’t what kind of noodles you eat, but rather the context in which you operate.”