{"id":3846,"date":"2010-06-03T14:53:29","date_gmt":"2010-06-03T18:53:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/?p=3846"},"modified":"2025-03-28T10:51:46","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T14:51:46","slug":"a-more-accurate-innerpreneur-timeline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/2010\/06\/03\/a-more-accurate-innerpreneur-timeline\/","title":{"rendered":"A More Accurate Innerpreneur Timeline"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ttr_start\"><\/div><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3849\" title=\"Innerpreneur Books\" src=\"http:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/InnerpreneurBooks.jpg\" alt=\"Innerpreneur Books\" width=\"664\" height=\"248\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/InnerpreneurBooks.jpg 664w, https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/InnerpreneurBooks-300x112.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 664px) 100vw, 664px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Almost two years ago to this date I had my first desire to write about Innerpreneurs. And, at the time, the only place I had ever heard of Innerpreneurs was in the cultural marketing book <strong><em>Karma Queens, Geek Gods and Innerpreneurs<\/em><\/strong> by <strong>Ron Rentel<\/strong>. Thus, I credited Ron for the creation of the word in my first article on the topic, <em>Are You An Innerpreneur?<\/em>.<\/p>\n<h3>It Ain&#8217;t So<\/h3>\n<p>Now that I am older and wiser, I&#8217;ve discovered that Rentel was actually the 3rd author, to my knowledge, to use the term. The 1st person to write about Innerpreneurs was <strong>Rebecca Maddox<\/strong> in 1996 with her guide on how to <em><strong>Inc. Your Dreams<\/strong>,<\/em> and then there was <strong>Phillip Dignan<\/strong> in 2007 with his examination of true wealth in <strong><em>Secrets of the Wealthy Mind<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Both authors, like Rentel, use the term Innerpreneur to describe a person shaping their business around their passions and values. Interestingly, none of the authors mention each others work. So whether they were inspired by each other or by Someone Else, I do not know. Either way, it seems Innerpreneuring was an idea destined to spread.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ttr_end\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3849\" title=\"Innerpreneur Books\" src=\"http:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/InnerpreneurBooks.jpg\" alt=\"Innerpreneur Books\" width=\"664\" height=\"248\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/InnerpreneurBooks.jpg 664w, https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/InnerpreneurBooks-300x112.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 664px) 100vw, 664px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>[tweetmeme] Almost two years ago to this date I had my first desire to write about Innerpreneurs. And, at the time, the only place I had ever heard of Innerpreneurs was in the cultural marketing book <strong><em>Karma Queens, Geek Gods and Innerpreneurs<\/em><\/strong> by <strong>Ron Rentel<\/strong>. Thus, I credited Ron for the creation of the word in my first article on the topic, <em>Are You An Innerpreneur?<\/em>.<\/p>\n<h3>It Ain&#8217;t So<\/h3>\n<p>Now that I am older and wiser, I&#8217;ve discovered that Rentel was actually the 3rd author, to my knowledge, to use the term.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-being-an-innerpreneur"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3846"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10981,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3846\/revisions\/10981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}