Word of The Day: Entreprenerd
entre·pre·nerd [ahn-truh-pruh-nurd]
noun
- A person who derives significant visceral joy from the discussion of minor technical business nuances.
- An intelligent but single-minded person obsessed with the idea that they can learn the magic behind the curtain called business by reading just one more book, going to one more seminar and talking to one last massively successful person.
- A technician struck by an entrepreneurial seizure
- A principal who performs sensationally socially silly acts, as wearing a name tag for 7 years or biting off the head of a rubber chicken (sorry no picture), to build up his brand and reputation. [see geek]
Examples: Scott Ginsberg | Hugh MacLeod | Rajesh Shakya | S&P
Thanks for the link love!
And by the way, I’m (technically) a dork, not a geek. Never played D and D
YES! I love it. I suddenly feel very… entreprenerdial!
My favorite word yet. This one just flows off the tongue.
I absolutely LOVE it (and relate)!
It’s good… and I think I qualify.
I think I lean towards the first definition, with emphasis on the word visceral.
Hehe, great word!
In some earlier word of the day I complained that the words were hard to understand for a non-native Engligh speaker. This one isn’t.
Thanks everyone, Peter & I were so proud of this one.
Ain’t we the pair.
I think I pretty much fit all of those to some degree or another.
Are you talking to me? I think you’re talking to me.
Another great word. May I conclude that I am not alone in this world?.
How are you entreprenerd? how’s going?.
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When Googling for this post I found some other definitions for this same word and thought you might like to check them out:
http://www.wordspy.com/words/entreprenerd.asp
http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=407939
http://blog.tennantconsulting.com/blog/2004/06/dad_whats_an_en.html
A few for starters
Wow, looks like we were a little behind on that seeing as it’s first recorded usage was in 1984. Good catch Jarkko. Looks like we need to improve our fact checking a bit