Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacles and opportunity, and are able to turn both to their advantage.
Everyone is an entrepreneur only when he actually 'carries out new combinations', and loses that character as soon as he builds his business, when he settles down to running it as other people run their businesses.
Entrepreneurs are people who are entrepreneurially active as adults in the process of setting up a business they will (partly) own and or currently owning and managing an operating young business.
Although there seems to be no generally accepted definition of entrepreneurship, many assessments are unified by the notion that entrepreneurship is about creating something new.
This latter type constitutes so-called dependent self-employment because their self-employment status is little more than a device to evade the most onerous elements of employment protection legislation.