Business enterprise can comprehensively be characterized as the creation or extraction of significant worth. With this definition, business is seen as change, which may incorporate different qualities than essentially financial ones.

Some increasingly tight definitions has depicted enterprise as the way toward planning, propelling and maintaining another business, which is regularly at first a private company, or as the "limit and ability to create, sort out and deal with an undertaking alongside any of its dangers to make a benefit." The individuals who make these organizations are frequently alluded to as business people. While meanings of enterprise commonly center around the starting and running of organizations, because of the high dangers associated with propelling a beginning up, a noteworthy extent of new companies need to close because of "absence of subsidizing, terrible business choices, a monetary emergency, absence of market request, or a mix of these."

A to some degree more extensive meaning of the term is now and then utilized, particularly in the field of financial aspects. In this utilization, a business visionary is a substance which can discover and follow up on chances to make an interpretation of developments or advancements into items and administrations: "The business visionary can perceive the business capability of the creation and sort out the capital, ability, and different assets that transform a creation into an economically feasible advancement." In this sense, the expression "enterprise" likewise catches inventive exercises with respect to set up firms, notwithstanding comparative exercises with respect to new organizations. However, the definition is as yet tight as in it despite everything centers around the formation of financial (business) esteem.