- Bought between 10 and 49 items
- Exclusive Author
- Has been a member for 1-2 years
- Referred between 50 and 99 users
- Sold between 100 000 and 250 000 dollars
Are we (TF/Envato authors) in some way entrepreneurs?
- Author had a File in an Envato Bundle
- Grew a moustache for the Envato Movember competition
- Author was Featured
- Community Moderator
- Referred more than 2000 users
- Has been a member for 4-5 years
- United Kingdom
- Repeatedly Helped protect Envato Marketplaces against copyright violations
- Contributed a Blog Post
Some good comments both ways 
Imo, simply selling something on a stock site doesn’t make you an Entrepreneur in itself, it just means you can make stuff and then let someone else do all the selling for you.
However, the Entrepreneurship comes out when people start doing clever things to increase their sales / drive affiliates here etc
Again, all imo
EDIT : but in general, the thread is more about we as designers/devsl, not as people who’re just selling here.
- United States
- Has been a member for 4-5 years
- Exclusive Author
- Author was Featured
- Sold between 50 000 and 100 000 dollars
- Item was Featured
- Contributed a Tutorial to a Tuts+ Site
- Author had a Free File of the Month
bitfade said
Developers are, generally, very very bad entrepreneurs. Top of the list being oversized egoes and the ability to spend insane amount of time on things nobody will care about.
lol this is how I spent my last month 
- Exclusive Author
- Item was Featured
- Author was Featured
- Author had a File in an Envato Bundle
- Has been a member for 4-5 years
- Sold between 100 000 and 250 000 dollars
- Repeatedly Helped protect Envato Marketplaces against copyright violations
- India
CodingJack said
bitfade saidlol this is how I spent my last month
Developers are, generally, very very bad entrepreneurs. Top of the list being oversized egoes and the ability to spend insane amount of time on things nobody will care about.
hmm.. for a change and to relax from coding, I started making a photoshop item and it seems the same happens – a whole week swallowed with experiment pieces! 
My estimated time was 2 days 
- Bought between 10 and 49 items
- Exclusive Author
- Gold Mo Grower
- Has been a member for 4-5 years
- Microlancer Beta Tester
- Referred between 1 and 9 users
- Sold between 1 000 and 5 000 dollars
- South Africa
I believe we do make the best Entrepreneurs – not necessarily the most successful Entrepreneurs though.
Creative people have a tendency to think differently and are better at problem solving than some biz school grads – most creatives are also more comfortable with the erratic and unpredictable risks associated with being an Entrepreneur.
