Shall we start calling entrepreneurs treps instead.
In this post last October I joined Robert Jones and Rieva Lesonsky and a few others in a quest for a better word for “entrepreneur.” Robert started it with 5 reasons we need a new word for entrepreneurs and Rieva followed with what does it really mean to be an entrepreneur.
As far as I’m concerned we failed to come up with a better word.
A few days ago, however, somebody on Twitter called themselves a “trep.” I think that might just work. What if we started calling ourselves and other entrepreneurs treps?
Background: the word entrepreneur includes trep. And then there’s the word intrepid. Works for me. I’m a trep. How about you?
And if you’re that person who started with the word trep in Twitter, I’d like to know, so I can give you credit.
(image: istockphoto.com)
Entrepreneur magazine has been using trep for some time, though I am not sure exactly how long: http://www.entrepreneur.com/treps/index.html.
FYI: trep means babble in Russian, would you wanted to be called a babbler?
For a similar reason government websites in Norway don’t use gov.no domain 😉
NotAtrep, thanks, but then again, do we eliminate using in English any word for entrepreneur that doesn’t work in any other language?