Stumbled across an interesting article at trak.in, and the question the writer asks is, “are bloggers entrepreneurs” and toeing the same line as the article, that is including only people who have registered their domains, paid a few dollars per year to get their blog started, do you consider them to be entrepreneurs?
Lets define something called “life style entrepreneurship” which essentially means you are an entrepreneur by the day, have your own venture, put in a lot of time and effort into it (putting in lot of money is probably not as relevant since through the internet you can essentially start a business with almost no money), and then you have the others, people who create things as a hobby (and that could possibly turn into something serious later) and not worry too much on it, or are not solely dependent on it. So if we follow this taxonomy, bloggers who are serious, spend a lot of time on the design, the CSS, building a network around the blog knowledge etc can be considered entrepreneurs since there is a lot of effort involved, and possibly more money over a period of time.
In essence, majority of bloggers are not just mainstream / lifestyle entrepreneurs, and hence its not fair to bestow upon them a title of an entrepreneur if they blog . And mind you, the output (here number of readers / traffic / hits) is not necessarily a yardstick to define if you are a life style entrepreneur or not. And just about the same way, how about developers who put in about 100 or so USD to develop those iPhone Apps and things on the SKD? Are they entrepreneurs? And this is again a brain child of new media that fall into the grey area with no exact classification or yardstick to tag!
