Comments on: Are bloggers entrepreneurs?

By: ABDUL

ABDUL — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 11:45:15 +0000

I think bloggers are not enterpreneurs because enterpreneurs must have to invest a huge capital to start the business. but I call the bloggers a smart persons because they do not invest much and earn handsome amount thats why it is insult for the bloggers to call them enterpreneur becaaaaaause they are more smart than enterpreneur.

By: TIP Guy

TIP Guy — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 16:44:51 +0000

Sriram,

Good thought provoking post. Surely, all bloggers are not entrepreneurs. However, I believe, depending upon the context, bloggers can be considered as entrepreneurs (or blogopreneurs).

Best Wishes,

By: muthu

muthu — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 05:34:54 +0000

Hai,
Nice article

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By: Sriram Vadlamani

Sriram Vadlamani — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 04:10:58 +0000

@all : Looks like most of the people are leaning towards – a blogger is not an entreprenuer. The initial capital required to start a blog is very minimal and doesn’t qualify as a risk in its strict sense.

@Ramanujam : Money spent on hosting is not of the same amount as Subway’s lunch. There could be two things. You have found an extremely cheap host. Or your subway is charging an exorbitant price for a foot long sandwich. But, I agree with the rest of the things you said.

“every tom dick and harry”. I will chose either Tom or Harry. What’s your pick?

By: Squamble

Squamble — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 04:59:37 +0000

Some HTML Error occoured in my last comment.
I ment to say there are various function an Entrepreneur performs such as : -
Perceive opportunity of going for a profitable investment.
Project Planning.
Explores prospects of starting such a venture.
Obtain various required licenses.
Arranges for initial capital.
Promises to meet shortfall in capital if any.
Provides personal guaranty to financial institutions.
Supplies technical know how.

And now these are not all the function which a blogger performs. Though a blogger may be innovative he may not be a risk taker where high investment (capital) is concerned. !

By: IPO

IPO — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 07:10:09 +0000

Yes most of them are and there are only some of them who just do not care in being so, they are mainly driven by passion for blogging.

By: Gopinath Mavinkurve

Gopinath Mavinkurve — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 04:18:33 +0000

They surely are! In fact that calls for a new word – how about blogopreneur?
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Blogopreneur

By: Michael Flint

Michael Flint — Sun, 31 May 2009 22:10:09 +0000

Well… Some bloggers may work as hard as an entrepreneur, but a blogger is a writer, not necessarily an entrepreneur. Unless of course, you have a business or some sort of plan based on your blog. A blog that supports a business is not the same as a blog being your business. Don’t you think?

By: Ramanujam

Ramanujam — Sun, 31 May 2009 18:53:16 +0000

I would strongly say bloggers are not entrepreneurs. The money invested for domain and hosting per month is pretty minimal… less than a day’s lunch at Subway!

Now that every Tom, dick and Harry can start a blog and many people are successful in making some money too….
Only a very minimal subset of the blogging community may be classified as entrepreneurs.

If a person is in to it full time and runs it successfully(money, fame etc etc) then he/she may be called so but all others who label themselves as entrepreneurs/evangelists just because they run blogs and make money out of it belong to ’so called entrepreneurs’ group.