What is an Entrepreneur?
An "entrepreneur" is a person who creates, organizes, manages and assumes the risk of a business or enterprise. Entrepreneurial businesses fuel the economy because small service businesses and information providers are increasingly creating the new jobs. However, business textbooks primarily deal with large corporations.
The best place to learn about small start-up businesses is at the elbows of the entrepreneurs who began their own businesses. They can teach lessons that are not found in textbooks while reinforcing the management principles that are taught in classrooms. Internship sponsors teach by example and by guiding the experience of the interns.
Entrepreneurship is also relevant to large businesses. Evolving technology and the globalization of the economy have forced even large enterprises to become more nimble and flexible. In response to this rapidly changing business environment, big corporations try to capture the entrepreneurial spirit by giving more authority to managers at the operational level of their business.
Entrepreneurial internships strengthen students' resumes and improve their chances of landing a top job after college graduation, whether in small businesses or in Fortune-500 firms.
