(n.) One who creates a product on his own account; whoever undertakes on his own account an industrial enterprise in which workmen are employed.
Example Sentences:
(1) "We absolutely regret the setbacks Kim Dotcom has had since MegaUpload was taken offline, but we hope he as an entrepreneur will understand our side of the story and the decisions deliberately taken."
(2) Photograph: David Grayson David Grayson, director, The Doughty Centre for Corporate Responsibility, Cranfield University David became professor of corporate responsibility and director of the Doughty Centre for Corporate Responsibility at Cranfield School of Management, in April 2007, after a 30 year career as a social entrepreneur and campaigner for responsible business, diversity, and small business development.
(3) Kenichiro Yagi, seafood entrepreneur from Ofunato Businessman Kenichiro Yagi gets to work on the planned new headquarters for his business in Ofunato.
(4) In turn, the franchise provides income for local entrepreneurs who can access direct financing from a local microfinance bank to get started.
(5) Merkel said the G20 needed to work on opening up access to financial means for female entrepreneurs, for example via micro credits – an issue she had raised repeatedly over the past five years.
(6) Inevitably, entrepreneurs started to realise that there were people out there who were interested only in having sex, and sites such as AdultFriendFinder offered users the unique experience of deciding whether or not they would like to sleep with a person based solely on pictures of their genitals.
(7) Labor party top 10 The Labor party benefited from a $150,000 donation from tech entrepreneur Sean Tomlinson.
(8) This partnership is providing women entrepreneurs in Nigeria with an innovative, mobile technology solution to meet one of the greatest challenges facing the world today: financial inclusion in emerging economies.
(9) Tech entrepreneurs will keep expanding into increasingly diverse niches, so it will be amusing to try and pick out the most obscure market being disrupted in 2014.
(10) Goldsmith's ancestors, who include the Rothschilds, rose from the Frankfurt ghettos to become wealthy and prominent international entrepreneurs.
(11) The situation is also frustrating for young entrepreneurs, says Kelechi Ibekwe, a 22-year-old animator.
(12) In 2011 it was renamed the Trump Entrepreneur Institute, but it has been dogged since by complaints from consumers and a few isolated civil lawsuits claiming it did not fulfill its advertised claims.
(13) Mitchell has cited as an example of wealth creation Unilever's scheme to equip more than 25,000 women known as Shakti entrepreneurs in India and Bangladesh to sell products such as toothpaste or tea to people in remote areas – in turn, enabling them to afford healthcare and schooling for their families.
(14) Rohan Silva is co-founder of Second Home, a social enterprise that creates new cultural venues and creative workplaces for entrepreneurs.
(15) The government will be borrowing heavily over the next few years, so it’s a shame that they couldn’t use more of the fiscal headroom to encourage investment through measures such as raising the annual investment allowance, which could deliver productivity increases sooner.” Autumn Statement 2016: Most gains from post-2015 changes go to richest half of UK - live Read more Digital entrepreneur and investor Martin Leuw, who was CEO of IRIS Software for 10 years and now runs business accelerator Growth4Good , said: “ I can see how a reduction in corporation tax makes the UK an attractive place for inward investment.
(16) Others wrongly behind bars include cultural figures, artists and entrepreneurs.
(17) There is now a growing band of politicians, entrepreneurs and policy strategists who argue that a basic income could potentially hold the solution to some of the big problems of our time.
(18) In addition to the green infrastructure bank, there will be a growth fund for small businesses, an ombudsman to whom companies can appeal if their bankers give them a raw deal, the extension of the time to pay tax scheme for the whole of the next parliament, more government contracts, higher capital allowances, tax breaks for patents and a more generous capital gains tax regime for entrepreneurs.
(19) Described by Econsultancy as “erudite and iconoclastic”, he was recognised as tech entrepreneur of the year at the 2016 UK Business Awards.
(20) It has a strong business model: local women can become micro-entrepreneurs by selling bags; customers receive a monetary incentive for each bag that is returned after use and the human waste collected is turned into a sanitised solution that is sold to farmers as a cheap fertiliser.
Founder
Definition:
(n.) One who founds, establishes, and erects; one who lays a foundation; an author; one from whom anything originates; one who endows.
(n.) One who founds; one who casts metals in various forms; a caster; as, a founder of cannon, bells, hardware, or types.
(v. i.) To become filled with water, and sink, as a ship.
(v. i.) To fall; to stumble and go lame, as a horse.
(v. i.) To fail; to miscarry.
(v. t.) To cause internal inflammation and soreness in the feet or limbs of (a horse), so as to disable or lame him.
(n.) A lameness in the foot of a horse, occasioned by inflammation; closh.
(n.) An inflammatory fever of the body, or acute rheumatism; as, chest founder. See Chest ffounder.
Example Sentences:
(1) The PUP founder made the comments at a voters’ forum and press conference during an open day held at his Palmer Coolum Resort, where he invited the electorate to see his giant robotic dinosaur park, memorabilia including his car collection and a concert by Dean Vegas, an Elvis impersonator.
(2) Also, it is often the case that trustees or senior leadership are in said positions because they have personal relationships with the founder.
(3) The committee is chaired by John Thompson, the board's lead independent director, and includes Microsoft founder and chairman, Bill Gates, as well as other board members Chuck Noski and Steve Luczo.
(4) The first decades of this Institute were shaped by the assistant of Robert Koch, Friedrich Loeffler (1852-1915), an important microbiologist and one of the founders of virology.
(5) Shannon Watts, founder of Moms Demand Action, welcomed Target’s shift in policy.
(6) (Observer, June 2013) Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet , 40 Current job: MP Nicknames: The harpist, "Madame Condescendante" (Bertrand Delanoë), "L'emmerdeuse" (Pain in the neck – Jacques Chirac) Campaign slogan: Une nouvelle énergie pour les Parisiens (A new energy for Parisians) Born: Paris Family: Daughter of a local mayor, granddaughter of a former French ambassador and great-granddaughter of one of the founder members of the French Communist party.
(7) He was indicted on weapons charges and accused of plotting robberies and the assassination of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s founder.
(8) Co-founder Cyndi Anafo’s mother used to run a Ghanaian grocery in the covered market that has recently been rebranded Brixton Village, a target destination for food tourists and wealthy Londoners.
(9) The director of the Museum at Checkpoint Charlie, Alexandra Hildebrandt, keeps a tally started by her late husband Rainer, the museum’s founder, which currently lists 1,720 victims.
(10) One of Prime’s founder members, Linklaters, provides tutoring, mentoring, work experience, and careers events to 2,500 young people in Hackney each year through its Realising Aspirations programme , according to a company spokesperson.
(11) Lyft co-Founder and president John Zimmer and GM president Dan Ammann say the two companies began serious discussions about three months ago.
(12) I want to raise awareness about the number of people who now feel afraid on our streets and map areas where people at risk can feel safest,” said the site’s founder, Hanna Thomas.
(13) In 1995, Bill Gates, founder and CEO at Microsoft, reportedly paid The Rolling Stones $3m (£1.9m) for the rights to use Start Me Up to launch Windows 95.
(14) Sir Ken Morrison, supermarkets Jersey trusts protect the billion-pound wealth of the 83-year-old Bradford-born Morrisons supermarket founder and a large number of his family members.
(15) Responding quickly, whatever the channel, is one of the most important things when it comes to how happy clients feel about the interaction they’ve had,” said Simon Hay, co-founder of online learning platform Firefly .
(16) The windfalls - which it declined to disclose - for its founders may not quite match the sums paid to the creators of YouTube and MySpace but the $280m deal is a welcome pay off for a project that started out from one room in Whitechapel, east London .
(17) The 61-year-old Canadian, who was one of the original founders of Greenpeace , was arrested last Sunday at Frankfurt airport at the request of Costa Rica, which wants to see him extradited over a 10-year-old charge of "violating ships traffic".
(18) The list is split between on and off-screen talent, including Sherlock producer Sue Vertue, the writer of Last Tango in Halifax and Happy Valley, Sally Wainwright, and Elisabeth Murdoch , founder of MasterChef producer Shine.
(19) That “social enterprise” is just a figleaf, which canny, profit-driven companies can manipulate (Emma Harrison, founder of A4e, famously used to call it a “social purpose company” before the Advertising Standards Authority, of all people, put a stop to it ).
(20) In a letter to potential investors, Groupon's co-founder and chief executive, Andrew Mason, warned future growth could come at the expense of profit.