This dissertation is a study on the entrepreneurial designer and the design and innovation process models in the context of design intensive startups. At a time when digital manufacturing technologies and digital media allow the designer to independently design, produce and distribute their products, the possibilities of their performance are transformed. The interest in the theme of this work and the relationship between entrepreneurship and design aims to contribute to the field and fill a gap in the training of designers in what concerns the different ways of acting in the market today. Thus, this dissertation investigated the processes of design and innovation described in the literature and the forms of process structure used in the daily practice of entrepreneurship in design. This research was organized through a literature review on models of the design process and innovation process models. Subsequently, semi-structured interviews were conducted with entrepreneurial designers to understand how their work in social practice and the experience of entrepreneurship in design shape the processes of these professionals. As results are listed reference process models and made considerations about the characteristics of this entrepreneurial designer and its forms of process structuring in what concerns the formulations of business strategies, productive schemes, schemes of economic feasibility of the projects and commercial outlets for the products . Thus points are raised to be considered for a discussion based on what guides designers in the realization of their projects, the product design process models in the context of entrepreneurship.