The Individual As an Enterprise
A Collection of Articles about Individualpreneurship, Enterpriship, and Enterprises
Description:... The notion of the individual as an enterprise (individualprise) and the individualpreneurship discipline must be of interest to anybody who wants to: . Advance as an employee into a leadership and/or managerial capacity . Be self-employed as an independent contractor or freelancer . Be an entrepreneur/business owner by transforming innovative ideas into value by starting and operating an upwardly mobile enterprise that is focused on capturing large markets, or a lifestyle enterprise in local communities, such as a restaurant or a retail business . Manage their own investments Individualpreneurship embraces activities whereby an individual (the individualpreneur) behaves as an enterprise in their own right, and as such builds the individualprise. In effect, the individualpreneur is in business for themself. Whereas solopreneurs are independent professionals, individualpreneurs can have multiple businesses, can be employed, and can employ others. The individualpreneur develops multiple income streams from many sources. Thus the individualpreneur is better hedged against uncertain economic, regulatory, and social conditions than those individuals who rely primarily on one source of income. Individualpreneurship provides a mindset for income generation for the fully-employed, self-employed, under-employed, and unemployed, whether working for somebody else, for themselves as sole-practitioners, while planning the next ventures, or just in-between opportunities. Individualpreneurship is in effect "focused multipreneurship." Opportunity is just beyond an individual's comfort zone, and the individualpreneurship discipline provides the framework for capturing it.
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