When Is It OK to Call Yourself an Entrepreneur?

Aaron Dinin, PhD
6 min readJul 28, 2020
Photo by Mark Fuller on Unsplash

“Here’s my business card,” he said. Normally someone handing me a business card wouldn’t be strange. But this felt different because the person handing me the card was less than half my age and still in high school.

I was meeting with a prospective student visiting campus. This happens from time to time — high schooler students will stop by my office for a few minutes to meet with…

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Aaron Dinin, PhD

I teach entrepreneurship at Duke. Software Engineer. PhD in English. I write about the mistakes entrepreneurs make since I’ve made plenty. More @ aarondinin.com