eGPS Pin: Growth Strategy / M&A

196. Bart Vanderhaegen: How Criticism Fuels Knowledge Creation in Adaptive Entrepreneurial Firms

Success in business — serving customers well, and achieving growth in revenues and assets with a return on capital greater than its cost over the lo…

195. Tom Malengo on Brandjectory, An Innovative New Platform for Launching and Growing Entrepreneurial Businesses

A great benefit of the internet age is the capacity to accumulate, accelerate, and intensify connections between entrepreneurs, knowledge sources, inv…

194. Hermann Morris: The Nail Hub as the Adaptive Entrepreneurial Method in Practice

Breakthrough theory becomes effective practice when it is successful applied by real-life entrepreneurs. The E4B entrepreneurial method is actualized …

192. Mark McGrath on Orientation and the Adaptive Entrepreneurial Method

When firms apply the principles of Austrian economics to business management, we call the result the Adaptive Entrepreneurial Method. It’s adaptive in that it is a…

190. Peter Klein: Why Managers Still Matter:

Entrepreneurial businesses embrace adaptiveness and change, and continuous innovation enabled by flexible and responsive organizations, empowered at e…

189. James Kent: Carving A Differentiated Growth Space In A Well-Established Market

Entrepreneurs always generate new value for customers; that’s what they get paid for. It’s not always necessary to create a new market; there are …

187. Per Bylund: The Austrian School Approach to Business versus the Business School Approach

Business is a form of applied economics. Its purpose is to make people’s lives better. Profit is the signal from society that business is doing a go…

186. Jared Wall: How a Courageous Entrepreneur Enters a Formative Market

How do new markets form? When consumers change their tastes and preferences and behaviors, how are the markets to serve them activated? The markets do…

183. Ahmed Elsamadisi: The Stories Data Can Tell Us If We Ask The Right Questions

make decisions? Data certainly don’t make decisions, nor do analytics, nor do the computers they run on. Human begins make decisions — the human f…

182. Gordon Miller: What’s Your Absorptive Capacity for User-Generated Innovation?

It’s often the case that lead users — the most sophisticated, committed, and energetic users — are an excellent source of innovation ideas.

181. Brian Rivera on the Flow System

The traditional approaches to the structure and management of firms are becoming barriers to customer value

180. Raushan Gross On the Newly Emerging And Newly Enabling Institutions Of Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship today is a movement, a welling-up of new economic creativity, combined with a great desire for economic freedom and the joys of self-…

Why you shouldn’t trust in “market value”.

"Market value" is a misconception. All valuation is subjective. Individual investors consider their own ends, both financial and non-financial, their …

David J. Rapp July 6, 2022

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177. Mark McGrath On After-Action Reviews

The business-as-a-flow orientation embraces continuous adaptive change within the firm. Traditional slow-motion control mechanisms like strategy and p…

172. Christian Sandström: Why Governments Can’t Act Entrepreneurially

A strange strand of thought has emerged in European political economy circles that has been given the name of The Entrepreneurial State. The headline…

168. Anthony J. Evans: Markets for Managers and Entrepreneurs

. We discuss markets with Anthony J. Evans, a business school professor who teaches that all businesspeople must become economists.

166. Murray Sabrin: What Entrepreneurs Do When The Yield Curve Inverts

To what extent should entrepreneurial businesspeople concern themselves with macro-economic variables? At E4B, our point of view is: not much. We made…

147. Mohammad Keyhani: Strategic Entrepreneurship — The Smart Practice of Combining Business Theories for Marketplace Success

Strategic management theories and entrepreneurship theories have diverged in academia. One perspective can’t recognize the other. Yet the most promi…

146. Luca Dellanna on the Power of Adaptation: Adapt or Die

Ceaseless flux. Those are words Ludwig von Mises used to describe the perpetual change in business conditions that entrepreneurs experience. The conse…

144. Joe Matarese on Expectations and Building a Culture of Continuous Innovation

Every company starts as an innovation. Thereafter, the unceasing challenge is to keep innovating because the market continues to change, technology co…

142. Murray Sabrin: How Entrepreneurs Beat the Fed-Generated Boom-Bust Cycle

Entrepreneurial businesses acknowledge and understand the inevitability of boom-bust cycles in the Fed-manipulated economy. But they refuse to be defe…

140. Samuele Murtinu: How Low Time Preference Elevates the Investment Returns of Family Corporate Venture Capital

Family businesses play a major role in the US economy. According to the Conway Center, family businesses comprise 90% of the business ventures in the …

Growth Strategy / M&A

What works and what doesn’t to generate greater customer value? What parts of the portfolio can be grown? What are the drivers of growth? Acquiring…

131. Saras Sarasvathy On The Entrepreneurial Method

The scientific method has served us well to date. The entrepreneurial method, informed by the principles of Austrian economics, can take society much …

Entrepreneur Zones to Accelerate Growth

If you are planning to open a business or already have one, continually review your firm to ensure you are following the principles outlined in…

Trauma in Employment

Opportunity Zones … We Need Entrepreneur Zones

Healing Divided Country with Entrepreneurship

Dale Caldwell Believes that Jobs Can Drive Societal Change

New Jersey Entrepreneur Zones White Paper

122. Andrew Frazier on Running Your Business

There’s a middle class of businesses that are the backbone of the economy. Professor Saras Sarasvathy coined that term, and we’re pleased to adopt it.…

120. Mark Schaefer on Cumulative Advantage

Mark Schaefer is an expert at bringing economic theories of this kind into vibrant contemporary life. He coined the term Cumulative Advantage and want…

105. Per Bylund: Austrian Economics is the Science of Business Success

For any size and any type of business, the generation of value requires more than strategy, planning, and executional excellence. It calls for the establishment,…

102. Dale Caldwell: Entrepreneur Zones Will Drive Accelerated Growth For Cities

Can entrepreneurship be a collaborative undertaking across multiple firms? Entrepreneur Zones are an idea from Dale Caldwell to boost the economic per…

96. Vishal Gupta and the Nobel Prize For Entrepreneurship Research

Researchers into entrepreneurship have a powerful incentive to identify new insights about how businesses grow and thrive.

Bob Luddy Is A CEO Who Applies Principles Of Austrian Economics In His Business Every Day.

One of the things that I really like about the Austrian economists, regardless of the subject, they work hard to get to the truth of…

Hunter Hastings September 27, 2020

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82. David K. Hurst: Business School Fallacies and Acting Your Way to Better Thinking

At E4E, we believe that Austrian economics can guide business execs and entrepreneurs to better thinking about how to manage businesses that thrive. Business educator…

65. David Bienstock on the Business of Politics

When we talk about entrepreneurial alertness to opportunity, it can sound pretty vague. What exactly does that mean? How is alertness translated into …