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An entrepreneur (i/ˌɒntrəprəˈnɜr/) is an owner or manager of a business enterprise who makes money through risk and/or initiative. The term was originally a loanword from French and was first defined by the Irish-French economist Richard Cantillon. Entrepreneur in English is a term applied to a person who is willing to help launch a new venture or enterprise and accept full responsibility for the outcome. Jean-Baptiste Say, a French economist, is believed to have coined the word "entrepreneur" in the 19th century - he defined an entrepreneur as "one who undertakes an enterprise, especially a contractor, acting as intermediatory between capital and labour".
Entrepreneurs become what they are for several reasons. Many, depending on the person, choose to do so to avoid workplace drama, discrimination, being taken advantage of, or just to be their own boss. Another reason people become entrepreneurs is to avoid unemployment and attain job security. When an individual cannot find work, he or she may see starting a business enterprise as a suitable alternative and a good way to ensure he or she is never fired.
Julie Meyer is an American-born entrepreneur, investor, business adviser, networking expert, broadcaster, and business commentator. She is the founder and Chief Executive of Ariadne Capital and the Managing Partner of Ariadne Capital Entrepreneurs Fund (ACE).
She is the founder of Entrepreneur Country and was the co-founder of First Tuesday sold in July 2000 to Yazam, a subsidiary of Jerusalem Global, for $50 million.
Meyer is also one of the two dragons on the BBC’s Dragons' Den online and is a regular columnist for the business paper City A.M. and regularly contributes to The Daily Telegraph’s business pages.
She has won awards including the World Economic Forum Global Leader of Tomorrow, the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year (October 2000) and a place in the Wall Street Journal’s 30 most influential women in Europe. She was also cited as one of INSEAD’s ‘50 alumni who have changed the world’ (2010).
Meyer was born in Dearborn, Michigan, but moved to Sacramento, California, when she was one month old. Her father, also an entrepreneur, is a pulmonary doctor who founded Pulmonary Medicine Associates in Carmichael, CA in the early 1970s; her mother was an assistant to a lawyer.
Actors: Brant Bumpers (actor), Stephen Villela (producer), Michael D. Burger (actor), Shane Leal-Willett (director), Charles Taylor Wideman (writer), Nicolas Ryan Prichard (composer),
Genres: Short,Actors: Michael Power (actor), Jeffrey K. Miller (director), Jeffrey K. Miller (writer), Michael A. Toscano (producer), Mimi Jeffries (producer), Nadia Gan (actress), Sarah Maiorino (costume designer), Natalia Laspina (actress), Ryan Burton (actor), Mark Alhadeff (actor), Patrick Oliver Jones (actor), Robert Honstein (composer),
Genres: Comedy, Short,Actors: Balázs Galkó (actor), Béla Vaszary (miscellaneous crew), István Hirtling (actor), Katalin Takács (actress), György Molnár (director), Anna Györgyi (actress), László Kántor (producer), Csilla Koráng (miscellaneous crew), Vica Kerekes (actress), András Schlanger (actor), László Sipos (producer), Milán Vajda (actor), Zsuzsa Kulcsár (producer), Béla Szabó (actor), Vanda Kovács (actress),
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance,Actors: Leonard Maltin (actor), Alex Cox (actor), Alex Cox (editor), Del Zamora (actor), Roger Corman (producer), Alex Cox (director), Sy Richardson (actor), Alex Cox (writer), Roger Corman (actor), Dan Wool (composer), Zahn McClarnon (actor), Jon Davison (producer), Daren Hicks (producer), Orlando R. Gonzales (miscellaneous crew), Ed Pansullo (actor),
Plot: The 'has-been' Hollywood Western actors, Mel Torres and Fred Fletcher, hear Fritz Frobisher will attend a screening of one of his movies in Arizona. They decide to go exact revenge on him for terrorizing them and other kids with a whip on their first set. To this end Mel's unenthusiastic daughter, Delilah, is persuaded to provide her decent car, and comes along all the way from L.A. Endless discussions about movies, simple philosophy and morality are interlaced with accidental and purely scare-induced horror. When they arrive, neither the screening nor Frobisher are anything like they imagined.
Keywords: cult-film, dry-humor, embarrassment, false-identity, neo-western, public-humiliation, revenge, road-comedy, satire, whipActors: Marcus Davis (actor), The Paul English Trio (composer), Shawnré Tieuel (director),
Plot: In 2003, The Breakfast Klub became one of Houston's best kept secrets. By 2005, business was booming. With intriguing dishes such as katfish and grits and wings and waffles, visitors from across the country have taken notice. Tieuel Legacy! follows the man behind the plan.
Keywords: dv-film, food, houston-texas, jazz, legacy, texasActors: Paulo Branco (producer), José Raposo (actor), Rita Blanco (actress), João Braz (editor), Beatriz Batarda (actress), João Reis (actor), Fernando Luís (actor), João Canijo (director), João Canijo (writer), Luís Pavão (actor), Luís Pavão (actor), Margarida Leitão (miscellaneous crew), Jaime Freitas (miscellaneous crew), Anabela Moreira (actress), Cleia Almeida (actress),
Plot: João Canijo latest movie adapts a Greek tragedy "Ifigénia en Aulis" to a provincial Portuguese family that has to deal with the Russian Mafia after a deal went wrong. In a place where everything is bought and sold even the youngest daughter may have to be offered for prostitution to make up for a deal that went terribly wrong. "Noite Escura" deals with the emotions of a small family that runs a provincial whorehouse, having to sell their youngest in order to survive.
Keywords: adultery, bar-hostess, dying, false-money, greek-tragedy, incest, mafia, murder, night-life, nudityActors: Marco Spoletini (editor), Domenico Procacci (producer), Ernesto Mahieux (actor), Ugo Chiti (writer), Elisabetta Rocchetti (actress), Pietro Biondi (actor), Matteo Garrone (writer), Matteo Garrone (director), Massimo Gaudioso (writer), Lina Bernardi (actress), Francesco Apolloni (actor), Francesca Leondeff (costume designer), Gianni Di Gregorio (miscellaneous crew), Daniela Staffa (miscellaneous crew), Banda Osiris (composer),
Plot: Peppino is an aging taxidermist constantly ridiculed for being short and somewhat creepy. He meets Valerio, a handsome young man fascinated by Peppino's work. Peppino, in turn, becomes entranced by Valerio and offers him a large salary to come work as his assistant. But when Valerio meets Deborah, their fledgling romance is threatened by an insanely jealous third wheel.
Keywords: ambiguous-ending, animal's-point-of-view, bare-butt, based-on-fact, bisexual, boss, camorra, car, character-has-same-name-as-actor, control-freakActors: Charles Dickens (writer), Josie Lawrence (actress), Josie Lawrence (actress), Josie Lawrence (actress), Josie Lawrence (actress), Josie Lawrence (actress), Josie Lawrence (actress), Jackson Frost (producer), Paul Milikin (actor), Paul Milikin (actor), Paul Milikin (actor), Paul Milikin (actor), Gary Thomas Jr. (actor), Gary Thomas Jr. (actor), Gary Thomas Jr. (actor),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Gino Bramieri (director), Enrico Simonetti (composer), Macha Méril (actress), Anna Orso (actress), Gino Bramieri (actor), Walter Chiari (writer), Luciano Salce (actor), Orchidea de Santis (actress), Roberto Della Casa (actor), Fiorenzo Fiorentini (actor), Leo Gullotta (actor), Renato Chiantoni (actor), Walter Chiari (actor), Vittorio Sindoni (director), Walter Chiari (director),
Genres: ,Actors: Carl-Gunnar Wingård (actor), Olof Widgren (actor), Torsten Winge (actor), Carl Deurell (actor), Erik 'Bullen' Berglund (actor), Georg Rydeberg (actor), Carl Ström (actor), Victor Sjöström (actor), Anders Henrikson (actor), Torsten Hillberg (actor), Stig Järrel (actor), Ivar Kåge (actor), Sture Lagerwall (actor), Richard Lund (actor), Ingrid Bergman (actress),
Plot: Lena Bergström works in an office and is unhappily in love with her boss, Johan Borg. She decides to quit. Borg's wife won't have any children, and when she becomes pregnant she has an illegal abortion. For some reason, Lena's father believes that it is Lena who has had an abortion.
Keywords: abortion, abortionist, birthday, blackmail, celebration, dance, diary, doctor, editor, false-accusation