ABSTRACT
Entrepreneurs epitomize sovereign individuals necessary for building the local entrepreneurial ecosystem. In the current U.S. American generation that is tilting toward more collectivism and group identity structures, the entrepreneur stands as a bulwark of individual thought and pursuit of a specific purpose. This essay could possibly be considered by academics as somewhat autoethnographic in nature, but for many it is a narrative based on a participant-observer who was content to instigate a gathering of like-minded “wanna-be” entrepreneurs (aka wannabepreneurs) which—surprisingly—has continued to meet weekly for more than 4 years at the time of this writing. Rather than trying to generate a movement among the local movers and shakers of a small city, the focus was upon folks who self-identified as interested in examining the feasibility of starting/expanding their own enterprise.
