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An **Entrepreneur** is someone with vision. They have an idea, and they build a company around it. They are pioneers--they put everything on the line to give their ideas to the world. Some are extremely successful, and start revolution. Most are not. A few of the most successful entrepreneurs of this time were Richard W. Sears, Andrew Carnegie, and Thomas Edison. Sears used the railroads to create the first ever catalog. He manufactured goods and shipped them via trains all over the nation. Anyone could order an item and have it delivered right to them. Andrew Carnegie took a gamble and built a factory to make steel based on the Bessemer Process. It was a complete success, and he became one of the world's richest men. Thomas Edison was in the electricity business, and created a firm to invent electrically powered things. His greatest invention was the incandescent lightbulb.