Citations:entreprenerd

Noun: "a person who builds a business around their technical skills or expertise"

 * 1984 — John Barry, "Profiles in Computing", InfoWorld, 17 December 1984:
 * The authors make it clear in their introduction that the book will not be a chore to slog through: Of the seven categories into which they place their subjects, one is labeled "Entreprenerds."
 * 1988 — John Schwartz, "Steve Jobs Comes Back", Newsweek, 24 October 1988:
 * He [Bill Gates] is Jobs's opposite. A virtuoso software engineer with virtually zero charisma, he is the ultimate entreprenerd.
 * 1989 — "New popularity revenge of the nerds", Toronto Star, 9 June 1989:
 * Mike MacDonald, a former scientific computer programmer and self-professed "entreprenerd," has made a career out of the belief that "everybody, at one time or another, has felt like a nerd."
 * 1990 — "On Line", Daily News (Los Angeles), 12 January 1990:
 * Fisher, 64, isn't your usual computer entreprenerd.
 * 2000 — Paul McNamara, "'Net Buzz", Network World, 27 November 2000:
 * "Looks like I'm guilty," writes Dan Hanson. "I've been using the moniker of 'entreprenerd' for about a year and a half now. I'm a math major/techie/geek who starts and runs tech businesses — what else would you call it?"
 * 2001 — Fred Y. Phillips, Market-Oriented Technology Management: Innovating for Profit in Entrepreneurial Times, Springer-Verlag (2001), ISBN 3540412581, page 147:
 * This is how today's "entreprenerds" deal with the risky future: First, identify a new, basic technology that will spawn whole new classes of products.
 * 2009 — Leonard Brody & David Raffa, Everything I Needed to Know About Business… I Learned from a Canadian, John Wiley & Sons (2009), ISBN 9780470159750, page 75:
 * It wasn't the divas that needed her the most, it was the entreprenerds.
 * 2010 — Sebastian Mallaby, More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite, The Penguin Press (2010), ISBN 110145721X, page 12:
 * Ken Griffin of Citadel, the second highest earner in 2006, started out trading convertible bonds from his dorm room at Harvard; he was the boy genius made good, the financial version of the entreprenerds who forged tech companies such as Google.