An entrepreneur is a person who has possession of a new enterprise,venture or idea, and assumes significant accountability for the inherent risks and the outcome. He or she's an ambitious leader who combines land, labor, and capital to often create and market new goods or services. ... The term is a loanword from French and was first defined by the Irish economist Richard Cantillon. Entrepreneur in English is a term applied to the type of personality who is willing to take upon herself or himse… (More on Entrepreneur)