# Are you an entrepreneur or a Superpreneur? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 6, 2005, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-an-entrepreneur-or-a-superpreneur/311242 "2005-07-06T03:56:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Aeschines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aeschines/32/16251_2.png) [@Aeschines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aeschines)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2005, 11:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-an-entrepreneur-or-a-superpreneur/311242/21 "2005-07-07T11:30:02Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > An entrepreneur spends his time behind a desk. > A Superpreneur spends his time furtively masturbating in a bathroom stall. Oh man, I laughed at this one! ---
**Author:** ![Aeschines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aeschines/32/16251_2.png) [@Aeschines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aeschines)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2005, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-an-entrepreneur-or-a-superpreneur/311242/22 "2005-07-07T11:35:47Z")
> [@Happy Lendervedder](#): > > For those too busy to read the book: [The Quiz.](http://www.allthetests.com/quiz14/quizpu.php?testid=1120715011) > > Happy Hey, I took the test and was a Superpreneur! Yay! ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2005, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-an-entrepreneur-or-a-superpreneur/311242/23 "2005-07-07T12:32:25Z")
Is it me or does Subpreneur = “In Soviet Russia”? ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2005, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-an-entrepreneur-or-a-superpreneur/311242/24 "2005-07-07T13:15:39Z")
After looking through this thread, I can’t get the word ‘preneur’ out of my head. As near as I can tell, it means ‘taker’ in French. So an ‘entrepreneur’ is literally a ‘between-taker’: someone who sits between a seller and a buyer and takes a bit (ideally in return for connecting them). Logically, then, a ‘superpreneur’ is a ‘super-taker’. No wonder I can quite shake the feeling of ‘scam’ on reading the OP’s excerpt from Thorn’s book. I don’t fit in the business world. I think I would be a… non-preneur. ---
**Author:** ![Trunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2005, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-an-entrepreneur-or-a-superpreneur/311242/25 "2005-07-07T14:24:04Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > After looking through this thread, I can’t get the word ‘preneur’ out of my head. > > As near as I can tell, it means ‘taker’ in French. In that case, I’m more of a _CoffeeBreakpreneur_. ---
**Author:** ![Aeschines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aeschines/32/16251_2.png) [@Aeschines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aeschines)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2005, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-an-entrepreneur-or-a-superpreneur/311242/26 "2005-07-07T15:36:16Z")
And, good job with that quiz, **Happy**! ---
**Author:** ![SirEdserv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@SirEdserv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SirEdserv)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2011, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-an-entrepreneur-or-a-superpreneur/311242/27 "2011-07-16T06:04:09Z")
Many years ago, my friend, Karl Hartley and I were making training videos about how to start and grow a business. I’m not sure which of us “coined the phrase,” “Superpreneur,” or if it had been ‘coined’ before, but I registered the domain [www.Superpreneur.com](http://www.Superpreneur.com) with hopes that I (or Karl and I) could possibly build a website promoting what we thought/think Superpreneurism is. Karl, did however, sum it up, which I still think is the BEST definition of a Superpreneur: (Paraphrased): “An entrepreneur works for the time value of money.” “A Superpreneur works for the money value of time.” Thanks, SirEdserv [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-an-entrepreneur-or-a-superpreneur/311242.md?page=1)