Chapter 1

Democratizing Entrepreneurship

With the famed stories of entrepreneurial stalwarts like Bill Gates, Steve Wozniak, Steve Jobs, Bill Hewlett and David Packard, Mark Zuckerberg, Peter Thiel, Elon Musk and the like, entrepreneurship has been perceived as the realm of elite workaholics who are passionate about their vision and achieved their vision through supernatural drive and perseverance in the face of adversity.

Although mostly grounded in some reality, that perception has also caused the masses to believe that entrepreneurship is not for all. There are two types of perspectives in this regard.

The first perspective comes from those people who are not tech savvy but have an idea of a solution to a problem they have uncovered. In some ...

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