The X-Preneurs

See prior section: Entrepreneurship in Chaos

Next: The Balkanization of Entrepreneurship

Je suis Charlie? Non, Je suis Entrepreneur. Vraiment. Non, vraiment.

Entrepreneurship is the selfie of the new millennium — a modern Rorschach test through which each of us sees validation for his or her own career. Can you think of any other profession, field, or activity with which so many desperately want to identify? If you look at the list below, it’s obvious that everyone is using a different definition of entrepreneurship.

Peeling away the layers of the onion, we can try to nail down who is really an entrepreneur. But as we peel, we discover that entrepreneurship is not an onion. It’s a pomegranate: The moment you break through the skin, it explodes into a chaotic mess of hundreds of tiny pieces.

Here’s a partial list of professions, activities or businesses trying hard to attach themselves to the “preneur” label. iii

Agripreneur
An entrepreneur who uses integrated crop practices to achieve economic, environmental, and social sustainability.

Agropreneur
An entrepreneur who helps other farmers be successful.

Algaepreneur
An entrepreneur who makes fuel from algae

Antipreneur
The opposite of an entrepreneur. An antipreneur is completely against large corporations and market-dominating companies.

Appreneur
An entrepreneur in the mobile device application industry.

Artpreneur
An entrepreneur who transforms their own artistic talents into a business.

Athletepreneur
An entrepreneur who makes a career from their athletic abilities.

Austinpreneur
An entrepreneur who is based in Austin, Texas.

Authorpreneur
An entrepreneur who promotes their own written products and brand as a business.

Awesomepreneur
An entrepreneur who … thinks she’s awesome.

Beautypreneur
An entrepreneur who is in beauty, fashion and lifestyle industries.

Blogpreneur, Blogtrepreneur
An entrepreneur who makes money from blogging.

Boomerpreneur
An entrepreneur who is Baby Boomer (born between 1946 and 1964)

Bureaupreneur
An innovator inside a bureaucracy

Buspreneur
Someone who is able to do something grand, such as conceiving and launching an IT startup, while riding a bus.

Causepreneur
An entrepreneur who primarily works on social/charitable causes.

Chefpreneur
An Entrepreneur who is a Chef — usually a celebrity.

Chocopreneur
An entrepreneur who innovates in the Chocolate business.

Citipreneur
A person or program that stimulates entrepreneurship in city or urban areas.

City/State-Preneuer
An entrepreneur based in a specific city or state

Coffeepreneur
An entrepreneur who innovates in the coffee business.

Collabora-Preneur
An entrepreneur collaborating with another person who might be a friend or family member, and family business start-ups

Comfortpreneur
One who does not strive to change, improve or adapt their business strategies and structures: they are comfortable in their current habits and processes.

Co-preneur
An entrepreneur that is part of a husband and wife team or a family business start-up.

Couplepreneur
A couple owning and running businesses together.

Craftpreneur
An entrepreneur who sells their own handi-crafts, usually on a platform such as Etsy.

Crosspreneur
Somebody capable of being *preneurial in multiple contexts.

Culturepreneur
An innovator responsible for new place-making strategies (improving the cultural appeal of a specific region).

Cyberpreneur
Promote a products or services via internet technology.

Dadpreneur
A father who operates a home-based business while spending more time with his family

Digitalpreneur
An entrepreneur who wants to grow a business online globally using sales and marketing automation, systems and strategies.

Divapreneur
Women who organize and operate their businesses (full or part-time) while collaborating with and sowing into their personal and professional circles to inspire others to be the best they can be in all areas of their lives.

Ecopreneur
An entrepreneur who creates and sells environmentally friendly products and services including organic food, recycling efforts, or green construction.

Edupreneur
A student or teacher who seeks to innovate, redefines and improves education

Encore Entrepreneur
An individual above retirement age, interested making their hobbies and interests into businesses.

Entree-preneur
An entrepreneur who innovates with food.

Enviropreneur
An entrepreneur who innovates to enhance environmental quality, and who can resolve environmental conflicts using contracts, property rights, and markets.

E-preneur
An entrepreneur who runs their business entirely on the internet.

Etsypreneur
A person who sells on Etsy.com

Exerpreneur
An entrepreneur who works out while developing their ideas.

Extrapreneur
An individual who re-engineers the holistic leadership learning culture, and drives towards internalizing the external strengths and externalizing the internal strengths of individuals and organizations.

Faithpreneur
An entrepreneur who achieve business success through their strong Christian faith.

Fakepreneur
Someone who is not a *real* entrepreneur.

Femmepreneur, Shepreneur
An entrepreneur who is a feminist.

Fempreneur
A trans Woman or Non-Binary Femme entrepreneur.

Foodpreneur
A food and beverage entrepreneur or professional.

Freepreneur
A business owner who only uses free or very low cost methods to set up and run a her business

Futurpreneur
Someone who is planning to be an entrepreneur or launch a business

Gardenpreneur
An entrepreneur who makes money by growing and selling from a their garden.

Grandmapreneur
An entrepreneur who is a grandmother.

Grantpreneur
An entrepreneur who relies on grants to get a business up and running.

Greenpreneur
An entrepreneur who works towards environmental sustainability and human well-being.

Guitarpreneur
An entrepreneur who uses guitar skills to build a business.

Halopreneuers
A small time operator who leverages a business platform — usually temporarily — to raise money for good causes.

Hermitpreneur
A person who likes working from home because it allows him to avoid other people.

Heropreneur
A retired former military hero who seeks to start his or her own business

Hip-Hop-preneur
Hip-Hop genre musicians who use their celebrity to start business ventures.

Homepreneur
An individual who works from home to create a business.

Hotelpreneur
An entrepreneur who takes advantage of the needs of small budget travelers in order to enter the hotel business.

Hoyapreneur
An entrepreneur who went to Georgetown University.

IndiaPreneur
An entrepreneur interested in developing India’s economic potential

Infopreneur
Somebody who makes a living selling information.

Infrapreneur
An entrepreneur focused on pairing innovative software with off-the-shelf (COTS) hardware.

Innerpreneur
A person who is self directed in the management of career, wellness and financial issues, and transitions.

Interpreneur
An entrepreneur who is taking charge for the greater interest of a company as a whole.

Intrapreneur
An entrepreneur within a large company.

Jo’ preneur
A Jordian entrepreneur.

Journopreneur
A journalist who uses entrepreneurial skills to make freelance journalism successful and sustainable

Kidpreneur
Young entrepreneurs with big ideas.

Kingdom Driven Entrepreneur
An entrepreneur who demonstrates the power, presence, passion, and purity of God in the marketplace.

Laterpreneur
An entrepreneur who is in their mid-50s

Localpreneur
Someone who owns a small business situated within a local community. Often the business’s values and ethics revolve around this community and the ‘local is best’ notion.

Manure Entrepreneur
An entrepreneur who develop marketable products from manure

Mediapreneur
Coaches, speakers, experts, internet/information marketers, and authors who want to grow their business and dominate online. Mediapreneurs have an online platform such as a web show, podcast, blog, video blog, and they leverage it to make money.

Megapreneuer
A celebrity or superstar of the entrepreneurial world.

Micropreneur
An entrepreneur who operate on a very small scale, or one with no more than five employees.

Minipreneur
Someone who runs a start up business, but has not fully committed themselves to it. OR — consumers turned entrepreneurs

Mobilepreneur
An entrepreneur who markets their business using a mobile device, such as their smart phone. Or — An entrepreneur who runs their business from no fixed locations.

Mompreneur, Momtrepreneur
A female business owner who is actively balancing the role of mom and the role of entrepreneur.

Netpreneur
Someone who has started an Internet business.

Nichepreneur
Someone who does big business in a small market.

Nomadic Entrepreneur
An entrepreneur who travel extensively while running their business.

Nontrepreneur
A person who claims to be self-employed, a small business owner, or an entrepreneur, but really just sits around all day thinking about those things. Inventors who will never commercialize their ideas and take the risk to become full-time entrepreneurs.

Obamapreneur
An entrepreneur who thrives on creating and selling merchandise related to the Obama presidency.

Occupreneur
Someone who manages their career as if they were a business entity and acts as an entrepreneur even if they have never owned a company, because his career is essentially a company in its own right.

Olderpreneur
The over 40 entrepreneur.

Outpreneur
An entrepreneur who starts a business from inside (a large company) and builds it outside.

Oxypreneur
Entrepreneurship at Occidental College in Los Angeles.

Parentpreneur
A parent with an at-home business, or a business owner who is actively balancing the role of a parent while being an entrepreneur.

Passivepreneur
Entrepreneurs whose efforts have resulted in them having a passive income that requires little to no effort.

Pastorpreneur
An entrepreneur who is a pastor. An entrepreneur who sets up churches as a business venture.

Philanthropreneur
People who bring a creative or entrepreneurial approach to philanthropy.

Pitchpreneur
An entrepreneur who is mainly going round looking for money to build a product.

Polypreneur
An entrepreneur from Hong Kong’s Polytechnic University.

Poshpreneur
An entrepreneur from the upper-class.

Potrepreneur, Potpreneuer
An entrepreneur who sell marijuana.

Pregnantpreneur
Someone who is raising a business and a baby.

Propertypreneur
A person who acts as an entrepreneur using property as his medium.

Propreneur
A person who looks for a viable way to pursue his/her career or profession by being his/her own boss.

Prosperneur
Someone dedicated to improving people’s lives through proper balance of healthier lifestyle with Super Nutrition (products)

Protopreneur
A person who is standing at the brink of entrepreneurship — still in a job, but somehow certain that you should be doing something for yourself.

Recesspreneur
Empowering at-risk and disadvantaged youth through using entrepreneurship to teach vital success skills.

Retailpreneur
A person who takes a small sum and turns it into more profit through retail.

Ruralpreneur
Stimulating rurally located entrepreneurship.

Seniorpreneur
Older (senior citizen) entrepreneurs.

Serial Entrepreneur
An entrepreneur who has been successful not once, but time after time.

Shouldapreneur
People who are waiting for just the right time to launch a business, but let it ride out to that preverbal tomorrow.

Sidepreneur
An entrepreneur who has a traditional full time job, and creates a side-business so they can one day have their own full time business.

Sisterpreneur
An entrepreneur is partnered with her sister(s).

Skepticpreneur
A business person who is somewhat cynical and often very wary of taking business risks. They are overly cautious, and will only aim for low hanging fruit and easy wins. Their motto is to play it safe, and don’t take unnecessary risks.

Socialpreneur
An entrepreneur whose enterprise is a for-profit company that focuses on human well-bring more than it does making money.

SoftwarePreneur
A Software Entrepreneur

Solopreneur
An entrepreneur who operates entirely on their own, and without support from others. They do not have business partners, and any help they do need, they usually pay for through a professional service.

Studentpreneur
An entrepreneur who starts a business while they are still in education either full or part time. Usually, it is students of a higher level of education, such as university

Suitcase Entrepreneur
An entrepreneur who lives out of a suitcase and travels the world.

Supermompreneur
Mothers who are juggling motherhood and a niche career.

Systempreneur
An expert who identifies the root causes of problems and sets about finding long-term and long lasting solutions.

Taboo Entrepreneur
An entrepreneur who sells products (lubricants, devices etc.) used by people to enhance their sex lives.

Teacherpreneur
An accomplished classroom teacher who blurs the lines of distinction between those who teach in schools and those who lead them.

Technopreneur
An entrepreneur in the field of technology.

Teenpreneur
A teen-age entrepreneur.

Tweenpreneur
Kids, ages 8 to 12 who own their own businesses and make their own money.

Twitterpreneur
Someone who makes their money — mostly or entirely — through the social platform, Twitter.

Uberpreneur
Someone who uses their Uber driving to promote their other business. Or, an individual with an epic ambition to change the world

Underwear Entrepreneur
An entrepreneur who innovates and sell undergarments.

Vetrepreneur, Vetpreneur
A (military) veteran who starts and owns a business.

Wantrapreneur, Wannapreneur
A person who talks about organizing and managing enterprises, esp. businesses, usually with considerable initiative and risk, but never actually does it.

Webpreneur
An entrepreneur whose venture relates to the World Wide Web.

Wingpreneur
Someone who is, essentially, the wingman for an entrepreneur. Someone who provides something essential to a start up business — be it funding, support, knowledge, skills, etc — but who takes a backseat in the overall running of a business.

Zentrepreneur
An entrepreneur who creates a business and a life at the same time.

Aside from a common suffix, did you figure out what they all have in common? Me neither.

Clearly everyone is speaking a different language. I was going to title this section “The Mythical Tower of Babel”, except there’s nothing mythical here. This pomegranate has exploded into a chaotic mess.

Next: The Balkanization of Entrepreneurship

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see http://www.cjcornell.net/site/x-preneur-links/

for complete set of links — and to add any new definitions of x-preneurs that I may have overlooked.

See prior section: Entrepreneurship in Chaos

Next: The Balkanization of Entrepreneurship

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2 See http://metapreneurship.net/resources/x-preneur-links/ for details & links.

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Excerpted from the book: The Age of Metapreneurship — A Journey into the Future of Entrepreneurship, by CJ Cornell (May 2017, Venture Point Press)

For more on T-Ball Entrepreneurship, and other issues in modern entrepreneurship, read The Age of Metapreneurship by CJ Cornell

Author — THE AGE OF METAPRENEURSHIP. Visiting Professor of Entrepreneurship. Speaker, Advisor etc. — Startups. Funding