Word of The Day: Entreprenerd

12.18.07 by shane

entre·pre·nerd [ahn-truh-pruh-nurd]
noun

  1. A person who derives significant visceral joy from the discussion of minor technical business nuances.
  2. 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.
  3. A technician struck by an entrepreneurial seizure
  4. 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

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11 Comments

  1. Dec 19th, 2007 at 06:12 am HELLO, my name is Scott

    Thanks for the link love!

    And by the way, I’m (technically) a dork, not a geek. Never played D and D ;)

  2. Dec 19th, 2007 at 08:12 am Michael Martine

    YES! I love it. I suddenly feel very… entreprenerdial!

  3. Dec 19th, 2007 at 11:12 am Brandon

    My favorite word yet. This one just flows off the tongue.

  4. Dec 19th, 2007 at 17:12 pm Christine O'Kelly

    I absolutely LOVE it (and relate)!

  5. Dec 19th, 2007 at 21:12 pm Mason

    It’s good… and I think I qualify.

    I think I lean towards the first definition, with emphasis on the word visceral.

  6. Dec 19th, 2007 at 23:12 pm Jarkko Laine

    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.

  7. Dec 20th, 2007 at 00:12 am shane

    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.

  8. Dec 21st, 2007 at 02:12 am lornadoone

    Are you talking to me? I think you’re talking to me. ;-)

  9. Dec 21st, 2007 at 23:12 pm nurasto

    Another great word. May I conclude that I am not alone in this world?.

    How are you entreprenerd? how’s going?. :D .

  10. Jan 1st, 2008 at 07:01 am Jarkko Laine

    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 :)

  11. Jan 1st, 2008 at 08:01 am Peter

    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 :)

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