The Metapreneurs
January 15, 2018Chapters Overview
March 19, 2018
For those who are interested, here’s the expanded table of contents (chapter titles, headers and subheading titles) – to provide a little insight as to the style and content of the book.
The Age of Metapreneurship
by CJ Cornell
Prologue
Panic
Heyday
The Dark Side
Struggles
Real-Time Entrepreneurship
Kids These Days
Don’t Panic
Wisdom
Wisdom
The Memoir
The Cliff Diver Paradox
The Fumblebrag
The Secret Weapon
Formulas and Recipes
Measuring Poetry
Why this Book?
What this book is about
Who This Book Is For
What’s Ahead
Chaos
Entrepreneurship in Chaos
Which Door?
Cosmo Quizzes
The Forer Effect
We Are All Entrepreneurs?
The X-Preneurs
The Balkanization of Entrepreneurship
Herding Chaos
You’re Not a Real Entrepreneur
Why is it so hard to agree on a definition?
Blind Men
Entrepreneurship’s Elephant
A Better Elephant
Out of Alignment
Why does this matter?
Cults
The Last War
The Great Wall of … France
Weapons of the Trade
The Cargo Cult of Entrepreneurship
The Cult of Silicon Valley
The Cargo Cult of Economic Development
The Cobra Effect
Mis-Alignment
Wayne’s World
The Cult of the Velvet Rope
Accelerators, Incubators and Factories – Oh My!
The Cult of Community
From Cult to Cult
The Boulder Thesis
The Cult of Communities
T-ball Entrepreneurship
The Cult of Cheerleaders
The Cult of Contests
The Cult of Coaches
The Burning of the Heretics
Coda to Cults
Dots
How Many Hops?
Straight Lines
Connecting the Dots
The Paperless Chase
Demise
Dissonance
Contradictions
Mediactive
Disruption
Connecting the Dots
Land of the Free
Moby Dick
Indignant
In the Land of the Free, Where’s the Money?
Crossing the Rubicon
Emergency Room Economics
Crossing the Rubicon
A World without Bridges
Pathways
Meta
Beyond Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship 1.0
Entrepreneurship 2.0
Era of Chaos and Transition: 2010-2015
Entrepreneurship 3.0
Metapreneurship
The Blind Stonecutter and the Cathedral
Parts of a Whole
The Terrain
Foundations of Metapreneurship
Abundance in Everything. Everywhere. Immediately.
Networks in Everything. Networks Replace Straight Lines.
Scale and Scarcity.
Crowds: An Abundance of People on the Network.
Collective Intelligence.
Self Organization. Crowds Develop Personality and Behavior.
Movements.
Emergence – The Top of the Foundation.
An Abundance of Abundance
The Long, Fat Tail
Abundance of Abundance
Abundance = Good
Abundance = Bad
Abundance = Opportunity
The Network is the Medium
All the Network is a Stage
Roles in the Network Ecosystem
The Network Game
Strategies
Scaling the Terrain
More than More
Critical
The Alchemy of Scale
Anti-Scaling
Movements
The Dancing Guy
Forcing Movements
The First Domino
Crowds
Mob Mentality
Collective Intelligence
Persons of Interest
Crowd Power
Harnessing the Crowd
Into the Matrix
Incentive Crowdsourcing
The Longitude Prize
Napoleon
Lindbergh
Netflix
XPRIZEs
A Hybrid
Active Crowdsourcing
Folding Proteins
Passive Crowdsourcing
Gutenberg and Cathedral Builders
Entrepreneurship Daily
Working the Crowd
Pennies from Heaven
The Rise of Crowdfunding
Crowdfunding today is in 5 broad categories:
Fraud and Failure
A Mecca for Entrepreneurs
Pebble
The Oculus Rift
Crowdfunding Metapreneurs
Shades of Grey-Boxes
Thevenin’s Equivalent (Black Boxes)
Gray Areas
Kumbaya
Generation Selfie
Crowd Culture
Crowd behavior is sharing & contributing, with transparency.
Access vs. Ownership
The Shooter’s Dilemma
ShareGrid
The Sharing Economy (a.k.a. The Collaborative Economy)
Sharing Trust
Crowd Sharing – A Perfect Storm of Disruption
Shapeshifters
The Group Formerly Known as the Customers
Co-Creation
Employees
The Gig Economy
Karma-nomics
Conscious Consumption
More than Winning
Hackers take on Wall Street
The Hacker Way
The Value of Virtue
Bottom Lines
Corporate ABCs
The 7 Virtues of the Modern Corporation
Conscious Capitalism
Greatest Generation
The Greatest Generation
Pay it Forward
On the Shoulders of Giants
Network Secrets
Power Shift
Meta Mentors
Master Metapreneurs?
The Land of the Blind
50 Years Experience
Experience as a Liability?
The One-Eyed Man is King
The Cult of Credentials
The Paradox of Experience
Power Struggle
Return of the Jedi Masters
Harnessing the Force
Masters of their Domains
A New Hope
The Age of Metapreneurs
New Terrain, New Reality
City Smarts
Stonecutters
Brick by Brick
Spot Us
Crowdpleasers
Cool Crowd Car Company
Triangle Traders
Kramer’s Reality Tour
The New Triangle Trade
The Guru Paradox
Gregslist
The Metapreneurs
Metafesto – Journey’s End
Navigating the New Terrain
Metapreneurship: Our Networked, Connected Future
Notes
Back Matter
Afterword
The Age of Metapreneurship
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Index
