dictionary meaning: a person who starts a business
and is willing to risk loss in order to make money
first use: 1852
in the past
when you are a start-up
they look down
but now
they can hardly wait to countdown
and look up
in the past
when you are part of a large multinational
they look up
in the past
if you unclothe the corporate gown
they look down
in the past
when you are an entrepreneur
they look d
- o
- w
- n
when you are a start-up
they look up
and now
when you are a techno-preneur
they can't wait to look you up
but when they wake up
they can't look you up
and you can look down
it takes twenty years to wake up!
Lin Hsin Hsin
Feb 16, 1999
Notes:
Past means twenty years ago
first published on p.21 Between The Lines, 2004,
e-Commerce image was first published on p.51,
ISBN: 978-981-02-3359-4 (paper),
ISBN: 978-3-937034-51-5 (paper), 216 pp, 10 color
In Bytes We Travel, 1997, ISBN: 978-981-02-3359-4 (paper), 276 pp, 10 color