You can certainly be an entrepreneur and not do the traditional startup route (i.e., angels, VCs, etc). You can also be a founder of a company that is effectiv

You can certainly be an entrepreneur and not do the traditional startup route (i.e., angels, VCs, etc). You can also be a founder of a company that is effectively a knock-off of some other company / model. Sorry, but regardless of how you go about it, cookie cutter'ing it isn't good enough. That's not an entrepreneur.