entrepreneurs

NOUN

person who starts a business alone

Synonyms

STRONGEST

administrator contractor executive manager producer

STRONG

backer businessperson founder industrialist organizer promoter

WEAK

impresario

Antonyms

STRONGEST

employee

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entrepreneurs

MarketWatch: What trait shows up the most among the successful entrepreneurs you studied?

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 21, 2026

MarketWatch: Is AI going to make it easier or harder for the next generation of entrepreneurs to build wealth?

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 21, 2026

Compared with the moguls who started companies during China’s go-go years, like Alibaba’s Jack Ma, many solo entrepreneurs are just looking to live cheaply and be self-sustaining.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026

At one community for solo entrepreneurs in Hangzhou called Honghub, this search for autonomy is on full display.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026

Unfortunately for the entrepreneurs, then came the Great Depression, and the commercial impulse withered.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson