The 7 Modern Types of Entrepreneurs — Which One Are You?

Entrepreneurs Careers, Characteristics, and Nature of Business

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4 min readFeb 11, 2021

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Follow the 7 modern types of entrepreneurs which will help you to understand an entrepreneur’s career, characteristics, and nature of business + professional activities: Entrepreneurial Intelligence/Hoppreneur
Follow the 7 modern types of entrepreneurs which will help you to understand an entrepreneur’s career, characteristics, and nature of business + professional activities: Entrepreneurial Intelligence/Hoppreneur

In the previous series of articles, we have discussed what is Entrepreneur, what is Entrepreneurship, and different types of Entrepreneurship? It is highly recommended to start reading the previous articles series for an exceptional understanding of the subject of Entrepreneurial Intelligence so you can discover and find a true entrepreneur inside of yours.

Here we will be discussing different types of entrepreneurs because there are many Entrepreneurs, drive the world’s economy with unique, innovative, and successful business ideas and models but, all of them have different types, characteristics, skills, and capabilities.

Digital Entrepreneurs

A digital entrepreneur is also an internet entrepreneur because he/she runs most of its business on the internet by using digital mediums and tools, i.e, web, email, online marketing.

For example, a digital entrepreneur sells online products, services such as Amazon products, online courses, building websites, or providing social media consultancy services, business coaching.

A digital entrepreneur is the owner of an Internet-based business that makes money through selling its services on the internet.

Small Business Entrepreneurs

Small Business Entrepreneurs are those entrepreneurs who provide services i.e., real estate services, car rental services, office cleaning services, gardening services, or building websites for other small businesses.

These types of entrepreneurs manage mostly family-owned businesses or a small number of teams to assist in their business.

Investor Entrepreneur

An Invest Entrepreneur is also known as Angel Investor because it helps new businesses or growing startups with financial investments. A real example of an investor entrepreneur is silicon valley’s entrepreneurs, and they will be ready to invest in young and innovative business ideas or startups if it’s appealing to their mind and business interests.

According to Wikipedia

An angel investor is an individual who provides capital for a business start-up, usually in exchange for convertible debt or ownership equity.

Analyst Entrepreneur

An Analyst Entrepreneur, also known as a business analyst, his/her job is problem-solving; he/she analyzed the problem and offers a unique solution. This type of entrepreneurs has critical thinking which makes them analysts. Today problem solving is a service that many business needs.

For example, an analyst entrepreneur will find out how a business is running, where the problem is, and what are the growth possibilities or how to expend different products and services into different markets for a business.

These types of entrepreneurs serve as data analysts, data scientists and, offering their services to different small and medium or multinational companies for different nature of business activities.

Solopreneur

Solopreneur is a new popped up term, and many people use this word as related to entrepreneurs. These types of entrepreneurs are self-dependant, and they have a free work style and lifestyle.

They provide services to different industries, businesses, and persons at a low cost mostly, i.e freelancing, writings, online marketing services.

Solopreneur is also known as a digital nomad because they use digital technologies, mediums to earn money while working as remotely.

Influencer Entreprenure

The one who creates a product around a single idea or niche and sells and finally receives huge sales .i.e podcasts, a unique product e-commerce store, event speaker, fitness trainer, YouTuber.

Sometimes these Influencer entrepreneurs use their platforms to earn money; for example, a person is selling a special podcast series on his own website. Today influencers driving the global economy in different ways, i.e the travel industry is growing because of travel influencers.

Social media influencers are people who use social media audience to promote a different type of products to a large number of followers and make money.

Wantprenure

Everyone is interested to become an entrepreneur and that is how we all are looking to find a way to become an entrepreneur. Wantprenure is the one who wants to become an entrepreneur.

Becoming an entrepreneur is a very serious job and, for that most of the time, you have to work 80 hours per week to succeed. But if someone only has a wish to become an entrepreneur but don’t come out with a solid plan and, action to follow, then his/her desire will remain as wantrepreneur rest of life.

Focus on your idea and start following, developing and, launching at any price to become a real Entrepreneur instead of staying a Wantprenure.

Wrap Up

There are many types of Entrepreneurs, but above, we have discussed the most latest and relevant kind of entrepreneurs to our entrepreneurial intelligence mission.

The real joy in the entrepreneurship journey is to rediscover yourself so you can achieve the set objectives and goals in your professional life.

It’s you now will find out the opportunities, craft them into valuable able ideas and drive the profit from them, whether it is small but it’s the beginning, so never mind.

Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.

— Farrah Gray

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