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He he, maybe this will finally scare my girlfriend into taking her online privacy and security a bit more seriously.
She still does not believe me when I tell her that people can see everything on your screen if you connect to an unsecured hotspot.
The french origins come from the words for undertake and business (entreprise). Yes, so it means to star a business.
I don't think the blogger is referring to unethical business practices any more than the blogger would endorse organised crime and steroids in sports. He is referring to people like Steve Jobs and Sergey Brin and Bill Gates .. not Bernie Madoff or Jeff Skilling.
Nothing wrong with being a successful entrepreneur AND having passion.
But the point of the article is that founders of boo.com, webvan.com, kosmo.com etc. and all the other stupid 90's dotcom ideas all failed as entrepreneurs because their business sucked ... not because they lacked passion.
Passion + stupid business = passionately stupid business ailure.