Jeff Pulver posed this question on his blog, and there were many interesting responses, including one from TPN's Cam Riley.

So, how did you become one?

(I'm not one yet, but i've no doubt I'll get there someday!)

I don't know really.... I"ve just always been doing my own thing. When I worked for companies it was just until I got things sorted out to start my own thing again.

Family & friends expect me to always be on a new project, and I've been publicly recognised by some big honchos at work as an entrepreneur so I suppose I qualify, although little in the web start-up world (yet).

At 15, I started a school newspaper with 1000 copies a pop and that I ran for three years because I liked writing and thought it would be fun. I organised three school formals - including the year 10 semi-formal which wasn't allowed before but got away with it because I developed a  positive rapport with the headmaster due to the paper. At uni six months in, I decided the mainstream media was crap and decided to start my own newspaper - which lead to me running a journalists society w/200 people that produced all sorts of things (print turned out to be expensive - which led me to digital media...hence my interest in the net now). and now, at my firm, about five months in, I thought it was stupid we didn't have a wiki and six months later, and to cut a long story short, has me spearheading a cultural change programme that's shaking the place up apparently.

I should also add I HATE being told what to do; am restless; and ideas come to me very easily and maybe a little too frequently (especially during exam time, like now...).
 

Get back to study!!!

I really do enjoy your blog Elias. It is well written, thought-out and researched

Thanks I need an outlet to write otherwise I go crazy!

ok ok, back to cramming about internal control frameworks...god its painful...

I know what you mean.... this morning I was thinking that it is such a physical process with me. Thoughts and ideas will keep swirling in my head until I write em down. It's the only way to clear the backlog.