entrepreneur

noun4

1. •
   A person who sets up a business; generally, a person who owns and manages a business and assumes its financial risks.
2. •
   (figurative, rare) A person who serves as an intermediary; a middleman; a go-between.

   • Chicago, it was, by way of compensation, beginning to take on the cosmopolitan cast of culture that it has worn ever since, as entrepreneur between the Old World and the New. — 1938
3. •
   (no longer used) A person who organizes concerts, plays, or other entertainments; the manager of a theatre or similar venue; an impresario.
4. •
   (no longer used) A person who manages an artist or performer; an agent.