r/Entrepreneur

Founded August 2008 · Public — anyone can post

Updated Sep 5

Our community brings together individuals driven by a shared commitment to problem-solving, professional networking, and collaborative innovation, all with the goal of making a positive impact. We welcome a diverse range of pursuits, from side projects and small businesses to venture-backed startups and solo ventures. However, this is a space for genuine connection and exchange of ideas, not self-promotion. Please refrain from promoting personal blogs, consulting services, books, MLMs, opinions.

Members

5,271,705

5.3M

Online now

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Posts per day

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Comments per post

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Growth · 7d

+0.1%

+4.5K members · ≈7d

Growth · 30d

+0.4%

+20K members · ≈28d

Published rules

5

1 mention promotion — quoted below

Last post

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Distinct posters

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Tracking since Aug 4 · growth spans are the real distance between snapshots, not rounded windows. Posts/day is measured from the community’s own newest posts on Reddit, not from what Prowlo happens to crawl.

Member growth

What works in r/Entrepreneur

Every post in a recent sample, labelled by format. Share is how much of the sample used that format; average score is how it performed.

FormatShare of postsAvg score
Lessons / story26%855
Question26%99
Discussion23%466
Show & tell11%464
Rant7%452
How-to6%412
News / link1%146

Based on 70 posts sampled in September 2026. A sample, not the full history.

Median score
109
Top 10% score
1,045
Text posts
100%
Got no replies
0%
Busiest windows
Mon 20:00 UTC, Tue 20:00 UTC

Posting rules, in plain words

Self-promotion belongs in a dedicated thread. Promotion goes in Thankful Thursday: Free Resources and Tools (Weekly).

  • No promotion, sales, or solicitation: Do not use this community to sell, promote, recruit, hire, job-seek, solicit investment, or drive traffic to your profile, company, or external content.
  • No promotion, sales, or solicitation: No dropping URLs, asking users to DM you, telling people to check your profile, or offering private resources. No crypto or investment pitches.
  • No promotion, sales, or solicitation: Free offers and promotions belong only in the designated weekly threads. Violations may result in a permanent ban.
  • Posting requirements and contribution standards: You must participate in the comments of other posts on this subreddit before posting yourself. Engage meaningfully first and get to know the community.

Quoted from the community’s own published rules. Always re-read them before posting.

What a good comment looks like here

  • — Offers specific, actionable advice based on personal experience
  • — Shares relevant anecdotes or lessons learned
  • — Directly addresses the OP's question or dilemma
  • — Provides encouragement and validation
  • — Challenges assumptions with constructive criticism
  • — Discloses relevant background or expertise

What r/Entrepreneur's rules say about promotion

1 of 5 published rules mentions promotion, advertising or spam. Quoted from the community's own rules page, not summarised.

  1. No promotion, sales, or solicitation

    rule 1 of 5

    Do not use this community to sell, promote, recruit, hire, job-seek, solicit investment, or drive traffic to your profile, company, or external content. No dropping URLs, asking users to DM you, telling people to check your profile, or offering private resources. No crypto or investment pitches. Free offers and promotions belong only in the designated weekly threads. Violations may result in a permanent ban.

    Removal reason shown to posters: Promotion or sales, including astroturfing

The other 4

  • Civility and inclusivity
  • Posting requirements and contribution standards
  • Original and human content only
  • AMAs must be approved

Read from r/Entrepreneur’s published rules on Sep 13. Communities change their rules without notice and enforce requirements (karma, account age, flair) that may live in the sidebar or automod rather than here — the source page is the authority.

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r/Entrepreneur — frequently asked

How many members does r/Entrepreneur have?

r/Entrepreneur has 5,271,705 members as of our most recent crawl on Sep 5. Prowlo re-checks tracked communities on a rolling schedule, so this figure moves rather than sitting frozen at whatever it was when a scraper last ran.

Is r/Entrepreneur growing?

Over the last ≈28 days r/Entrepreneur changed by +0.4% — a gain of 20K members. We compare against the nearest snapshot we actually hold and state the real span rather than rounding it to a clean "30 days".

How active is r/Entrepreneur?

We don't have a reliable posting-rate sample for r/Entrepreneur yet. Subscriber count alone is a poor guide to whether a community is active, so treat this one as unverified until the next sample lands.

When was r/Entrepreneur created?

r/Entrepreneur was founded in August 2008 and is a public — anyone can post community. Age matters: an older community with steady growth has survived Reddit's moderation churn; a young one with a spike may not.

Can I promote my product in r/Entrepreneur?

r/Entrepreneur publishes 5 rules and 1 of them addresses promotion. The first, “No promotion, sales, or solicitation”, says: Do not use this community to sell, promote, recruit, hire, job-seek, solicit investment, or drive traffic to your profile, company, or external content. No dropping URLs, asking users to DM you, telling people to check… Read the full rule text on this page and the community's rules page before posting — moderator enforcement is the thing that actually decides.

How do I monitor r/Entrepreneur for mentions?

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