Entrepreneurship An entrepreneur is a person who organizes and manages a business or industrial enterprise, attempting to make a profit taking the risk of loss. Although it may seem easy enough, becoming a successful entrepreneur is not rudimentary. Bill gates made it big overnight in 1979 with his creation of an interactive desktop interface he called ‘Windows'. To become a successful entrepreneur, you have to have a product or service that consumers really want, an organized form of sales and service and quality advertising. The product or service, which is the foundation of all ones effort,