So I didn't win Michigan's Entrepreneur of the Year award this year. I was a finalist and so I'm told everyone who makes it that far is a "Winner".

But the competition always brings into question, what exactly is an entrepreneur? How do you measure different levels of success?

For example, is someone who inherited their business an entrpreneur? If so, how do you measure their entrepreneurship?

And how do you measure entrpereneurship itself? Is it the number of jobs created? The revenued that is grossed? The influence it has on people's lives?

How do you define entrepreneurship?