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How to be a wantrapreneur

Guide to being an entrepreneur wannabe

Bruce Flow
Published in
6 min readSep 23, 2018

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There are tons of guides out there on how to be an entrepreneur. This is not one of them.

If you follow the advice here to a T, I guarantee that you can proudly call yourself a wantrapreneur. You know, the wannabe entrepreneur that works on everything else but the intended business. The wantrapreneur talks the walk but doesn’t walk the walk. Typically, a wantrapreneur runs a business that has a revenue of zero dollars.

Here are some tips on how to become a wantrapreneur:

Tip 1: Keep thinking “All I need is one single great idea”

Got a bunch of good ideas you can use to start a business now?

Forget those, you need a great idea. An idea so magnificent it will change the course of humanity. That idea has to provide at least one of the following solutions:

  • make everyone and their grandmas at least 2000% more productive
  • end all forms of environmental pollution
  • space colonization
  • world peace

When you have a perfect idea, you will know.

You will feel in your body. There will be a halo over your head. A choir of angels will…

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Bruce Flow
The Startup

Polymath by calling. Software developer by profession. Student of the mind by nature.