99. Scott Livengood Reframes Entrepreneurship for New Audiences
Why isn’t everyone an entrepreneur? Perhaps we don’t explain it well enough or in language that lets everyone in on the wonders and the thrills of…
eGPS Pin: Imagination
Opportunities do not exist in any objective sense. They are not “out there” for entrepreneurs to seize or to compete for. The role of the entrepreneur is to imagine a set of future conditions in which customers are more satisfied than today, and which the entrepreneur can organize for a profitable outcome. Imagination is the entrepreneur’s first resource.
98. Mark Packard’s Empathic Mental Model for Predicting Future Customer Value
Empathy, properly employed, is a robust business tool that smart entrepreneurs use to design winning value propositions. Download The Episode Resource Empathy As A Process…
Entrepreneurs Are Those Who Refuse To Accept The Status Quo – In Business, Politics, Institutions And Society.
Entrepreneurs refuse to accept the status quo. Their function is to create new economic value for their customers, and thereby to profit for themselves, both…
The Ethic Of Entrepreneurship.
What if the generalized approach to life was something like this: my most fulfilling and most profitable pathway is to first help other people –…
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.
An Economist Uncovers A New Market Trend: The Rise of the DIY Consumer-Entrepreneur.
[postintro]This article continues the occasional series from Professor Raushan Gross on The Institutions Of Entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurship is a powerful pathway to innovation, growth, prosperity, and…
Unsure Of Your Direction In These Turbulent Times? Entrepreneurship Can Provide All The Answers You Need.
2020 has been a strange year. My friend Ben always asks me, “Is the world crazy enough for you today?” He knows I nurture the…
What’s The Ideal Age To Be An Entrepreneur? Let Market Conditions Decide.
[postintro]This is the first article in an occasional series from Professor Raushan Gross on The Institutions Of Entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurship is a powerful pathway to innovation,…
92. Clay Miller: 5 Austrian Principles Applicable to Your Business Today
Principles of Austrian economics have immediate applications in business. Clay Miller, a deeply experienced and highly successful global tech entrepre…
The Epic Calling Of The Entrepreneur.
Many of us feel the pull of contributing to something “bigger than ourselves”. It could be a cause, a charity, a movement, a great project.…
86. Allan Branch: Entrepreneurs Are Authors Writing Their Own Story
"Entrepreneurship is like sailing through changing weather, winds, waves and tides.” - Allan Branch
83. Clay Miller: An Entrepreneurial Journey to New Lands, New Organizational Designs and New Value
Clay Miller got a Commodore 64 (you can look it up!) when he was 11 years old, and his interest in computing, software and writing code started there.
Why All CEO’s Can Benefit From A Familiarity With The Austrian Business Model.
For our Economics For Business initiative, we have adopted the motto: Think Better, Think Austrian. Everyone in business can benefit from studying and understanding the…
81. Dr. Keith Smith: The Free Market Medical Association Brings Entrepreneurship to Medical Services
Dr. Keith Smith, Co-Founder of the The Free Medical Association (FMMA.org), is an entrepreneur and free market warrior who is undaunted by the seeming…
Meaning In Life Is Critically Important To Well-Being. Entrepreneurship Is A Key Route To Get There.
Podcast Transcript: Clay Routledge (Professor of Psychology, North Dakota State University and Director, Existential Science Laboratory) and John Bitzan (Director of the Sheila and Robert Challey Institute…
80. Clay Routledge and John Bitzan: Entrepreneurship Brings Meaning and Purpose to Life
The entrepreneurial life is a life of meaning and purpose. We believe that strongly, and our belief is anchored in the ethic of entrepreneurship: to s…
What Is A Business Model? It’s Not What You’ve Been Told.
What is a business model? It’s a question asked frequently on Google Search, so there must be doubt in businesspeople’s minds. The reason for the…
79. Steven Phelan on the Many Different Entrepreneurial Journeys
Steve Phelan has spent a lifetime in entrepreneurship, as a student, a researcher, a teacher, an investor, an innovator and a practitioner. He found t…
78. Per Bylund Introduces the Austrian Business Model
Dr. Per Bylund joined us on the Economics For Entrepreneurs podcast to provide an exposition and explanation of the core structure of the Austrian Bus…
Entrepreneurship Brings Us Optimism For The Future, Despite The Depredations Of Government.
Jeff Deist recently argued the case for economics over politics in his talk “Markets vs. Mobs.” I believe markets will prevail, and here’s why. Our…
Per Bylund Introduces The Austrian Business Model.
Podcast Transcript: Conversation With Economist Dr. Per Bylund; August 11, 2020 Listen to the full episode here. Hunter: Per, welcome again to Economics for Entrepreneurs.…
75. Jason Whitlock: A Values-Driven Entrepreneur Shares Ten Principles for Success in the Highly Competitive World of Sports Content
Jason Whitlock shares with us many principles of his success. We highlight just a few of them here to whet your appetite for the podcast.
74. Raushan Gross on The Inspiring Life and Beneficial Impact of Entrepreneurs
Raushan Gross is one of the outstanding writers on the subject of entrepreneurship. In his latest e-book, The Inspiring Life and Beneficial Impact of…
68. Steve Phelan Explains Why Entrepreneurial Intelligence Beats Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence promises cognitive augmentation for business practitioners. Professor Steven Phelan’s research reveals that Entrepreneurial…
64. Per Bylund: Avoid The Errors of UNtrepreneurship.
Per Bylund warns us that there is some entrepreneurial advice and some proposed business models that are misleading. They amount to what he calls UNtr…
61. Yousif Almoayyed: Good Business Ethics Are Simply Good Business
Austrians maintain an active focus on business ethics. Why? It’s simple self-interest. As entrepreneurs, we want to succeed; individuals can’t do …
We Need More Entrepreneurs To Encourage More Entrepreneurship And A More Dynamic Economy.
Most of the market activities in which entrepreneurs are engaged are readily seen. People buy and sell things or provide services at locations to paying…
54. Steve Mariotti: Teaching Entrepreneurship as the Universal Route to a Better Life.
Can entrepreneurship be learned? We’d like to believe it can, since entrepreneurs drive economic growth – creating tomorrow as Per Bylund puts i…
53. The Entrepreneurial Ethic: What Drives Entrepreneurs to Create the Future?
Non-one has thought more deeply about the entrepreneurial ethic than Per Bylund. The subject is critical for understanding the source of energy in the…
49. Paul Tenney’s Global Entrepreneurial Journey Leads To Database Technology Success in Asia
On this week’s Economics For Entrepreneurs podcast, Paul Tenney describes and explains the 8 stages of his international journey to start, grow and manage a customer-success…
48. Chris Casey’s Journey To A Distinctively Austrian Financial Services Business
Learn how directly Austrian Economics can be applied in entrepreneurial business design. A creative founder of a financial services firm demonstrates …
47. John Chisholm’s Tools And Techniques For Success In The Entrepreneurial Process
In this episode, Hunter Hastings talks to John Chisholm, author of Unleash Your Inner Company: Use Passion And Perseverance To Build Your Ideal Busine…
40. Peter Klein: 10 Fundamentals Of Economics On Which To Build A Successful Customer-First Business
Our proposition is that the fundamentals of economics – a special humanistic, individualistic, entrepreneurial economics we call Austrian – can be…
39. Rick Rule: Deep Understanding of Markets Opens a Pathway to Entrepreneurial Leadership
Rick Rule is CEO at Sprott US Holdings. His lifetime focus on natural resources finance enabled him to carve a unique pathway to entrepreneurial succe…
37. Curt Carlson’s Systematic, Repeatable Process to Generate Customer Value
Is successful value creation through innovation the product of genius? Or of luck? No, it’s the product of a system, applied with discipline. Utiliz…
35. Chris Wilton’s Recipe for Success
Is there a recipe for entrepreneurial success? Chris Wilton has established a successful and growing catering business, and the recipe he developed ha…
33. Isabel Aneyba: Listening From the Heart and the Techniques of Empathy
Isabel Aneyba, an expert in the techniques of empathic diagnosis that yield the understanding of the mind of the customer, shares these practical tech…
27. Cheryl and Cliff Pia on the Economics of Creativity
Every entrepreneurial initiative is creative. There’s also an entire creative industry in which entrepreneurs can participate and succeed. Today we …
24. Dr. Smita Bakshi: An engineer, passionate about her mission, makes an impact by combining what the world needs and what the world will pay for.
What is the nature of the journey from growing up in India and Africa, to an education in America and the successful founding, growing and managing a …
Definition of Entrepreneurship From Library Of Economics And Liberty
An entrepreneur is someone who organizes, manages, and assumes the risks of a business or enterprise. An entrepreneur is an agent of change. Entrepreneurship is…
23. Per Bylund on Entrepreneurial Strategy
Business strategy in books and business schools has tended to towards metaphors of sports or war. There are playing fields or battlefields, and the st…
17. Yousif Almoayyed on How Austrian Economics Can Make You A Better Businessperson
Yousif Almoayyed runs a concrete business based in Bahrein, part of a family conglomerate of businesses. Part of his self-directed business education …
16. David Nordfors on the Huge Entrepreneurial Opportunity of the People-Centered Economy.
David Nordfors is CEO and co-founder of IIIJ and the co-chair of the i4j – Innovation For Jobs - Summit together with Vint Cerf. He was previously c…
Value Innovation Pathways
Creating a company culture centered around values and integrity increases consumer value. Create a company culture centered around values and integrity. Draft a list of…
15. Jeremy Vesta On How To Create Differentiated Value In Seemingly Undifferentiated Markets.
Jeremy Vesta is a partner in Vesta Holdings, and a manager of Harmony Beef, a greenfield start-up in the fresh beef industry. Fresh beef might be thou…
12. Lisa Stevenson on Organizational Psychology And The Entrepreneurial Personality
In our ongoing project to build a solid bridge between the theory and practice of entrepreneurship, we explored the connection between organizational psychology and the…
10. Ed Pletner Applies Alertness, Discovery, and Capabilities-Based Strategy to Start, Manage, and Grow His Firm
Ed Pletner talks with Hunter Hastings about applying these economic concepts to start, grow, and manage a thriving and highly differentiated business. Show Notes Entrepreneurial…
9. Peter Klein on Entrepreneurial Decision Making
Decision-making can feel particularly challenging for entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurs face the unpredictability of the future with a limited set of resou…
6. Ricky Porco on Types of Entrepreneurs
At Economics For Entrepreneurs, we believe that everyone can be an entrepreneur, should they choose to do so. It may take you some time to find exactly…
5. Peter Klein on Empathy for Entrepreneurs
Today we talked with Peter Klein about empathy – a critical tool in the entrepreneur’s toolbox. It’s through empathy that entrepreneurs can get into the…
4. Bob Luddy on Entrepreneurial Specialization
It’s a fallacy for an entrepreneur to believe in chasing the biggest possible audience or the largest possible market. Why? Because your business will get…
3. Per Bylund on The Role of The Entrepreneur
This week we featured Per Bylund. He is an economist who observes what entrepreneurs actually do, rather than analyzing the statistics of GDP growth a…
Introducing Economics for Entrepreneurs
The Mises Institute is launching a new podcast with the title Economics For Entrepreneurs. Why should you listen?
Don’t Go Left, Don’t Go Right, Go Entrepreneurial.
We need people who can imagine a better future in entrepreneurial terms, not political terms. People who can identify how to serve their customers in …
Each Of Us Can Drive Towards Lifetime Sustained Peak Performance – Like Tom Brady
What if we had a President whose brand was built around the promise of being the best person he could, and helping all Americans to be the most produc…
