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What Do Ya Wanna Be? Do you have what it takes to be an entrepreneurial superstar?

By Pamela Rohland

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Remember when you dreamed of becoming a rock star? Sure, youplayed great air guitar in your bedroom, but the fantasy prettymuch started and ended there. Now your wanna-be dreams center onbecoming a different kind of star: a wealthy entrepreneur with afast-track tech company that will last longer than the leftoversfrom the grand-opening party. Frankly, that may be as likely asbecoming the warm-up act for Madonna, according to Rob Ryan,founder of Entrepreneur America, a Hamilton, Montana-based businessdevelopment program for select entrepreneurs, and author ofEntre-preneur America: Lessons From Inside Rob Ryan's High-Tech Boot Camp (Harper- Business). He says only a small percentageof aspiring entrepreneurs have the combination of heart and brainsso essential for success in the brutal high-tech industry.

Ryan reveals the characteristics of the most common types ofwanna-bes:

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