197. Phil Johnson: Entrepreneurs Demonstrate A Special Emotional Intelligence
Business success goes beyond numbers and planning and finance acumen. There’s an emotional component to it, ranging from the courage to make decisio…
eGPS Pin: Self-Assessment
Austrian economics stresses the WHAT of entrepreneurship, not the WHO. Anyone can be an entrepreneur. Nevertheless, you may wish to review some of our content on the entrepreneurial mindset and personality.
191. Allen Mendenhall: Putting Humanness and Ethics Back Into Business Economics
We are living through a particularly bad moment in history for free markets and capitalism. Government, not business, is promoted as the solution to a…
188. Jordan Lams on Finding and Patiently Developing Your Entrepreneurial Focus
We define entrepreneurship in terms of people working creatively to make others’ lives better.
173. Rene Rodriguez: Unleashing Voluntary Energy Via Influence
n we persuade a customer to switch to our brand or service? Can we get the board or the C-Suite to approve our proposal? Can we convince a VC to fund …
161. Connie Whitman: Turning Experience Into An Intellectual Property Business
Your individual experience is a business asset. Life is teaching us more than we sometimes realize. An insightful analysis of what we’ve experienced…
156. Yousif Almoayyed: How Austrian Economics Helps Me Make Best Use of All My Business Knowledge
Business success is a function of knowledge — the right knowledge at the right time applied in the right way. But knowledge is always scarce and inc…
155. Bart Vanderhaegen on Flow: Transcending Organizational Barriers to Progress
Organizational structure is often a barrier to flow. Bart Vanderhaegen tells Economics For Business how to transcend the barrier.
150. Six Powerful Business Insights From Austrian Economics
We invite you to listen to the special year-end podcast, and to sample each of those we’ve highlighted here, review the Key Takeaways we provide as …
139. Fabrice Testa on Super Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship is a method, and it’s also a mindset. Fabrice Testa has written a book that brilliantly integrates the two: he calls the integratio…
How Austrian Economics Made Bob Luddy Successful
Learn about Say’s Law, subjective value, comparative advantage, opportunity cost, and pricing. Learn about Say’s Law, subjective value, comparative advantage, opportunity cost, and pricing. Five…
134. Per Bylund: The Unrealized
Understanding The Unrealized requires us as entrepreneurial businesspeople to think better, and to resist settling for what is merely feasible in a re…
130. Eamonn Butler’s Primer on Entrepreneurship and Its Social Good
Entrepreneurship is the great force for social good — in fact, the greatest force for good in the history of civilization. It’s the system of…
Reframing Entrepreneurship for New Audiences
Teach entrepreneurship through the lens of cultural icons like Seinfeld and learning about circumstances and culture of disadvantaged communities by using examples they can relate…
Entrepreneurial Journeys Start at the Family Dinner Table
Talk about entrepreneurship at the family dinner table to help spark inspiration. Find the right mentor who can help develop a young person’s skills and…
Self-Assessment
Entrepreneur’s self-examination for guidance as to what role to play in value generation, both individually and collaboratively.
Types of Entrepreneurs
Think about the types of entrepreneur lifestyle that suits you. Think about the types of entrepreneur lifestyle that suits you.
Decision-Making
Actively seek the judgement of your entire business when it comes to making decisions that requires specific knowledge you may lack.
Seeing the Business World More Clearly
Use this as a guide to help you build your entrepreneurial journey to success. Use this as a guide to help you build your entrepreneurial…
The Entrepreneurial Ethic
Learn the entrepreneurial ethic then always ask what your customer will think of any action you take. Is it useful and valuable for them? Learn…
STARS
Who am I? What do I know? Who do I know? What are my resources? These are questions suggested to entrepreneurs by effectuation theory. It…
Ikigai
Personal self-assessment. Personal self-assessment.
The Entrepreneurial Individual’s Checklist
The entrepreneurial individual is the one best equipped to navigate a pathway through the changing world of work, revenue streams and economic opportunities. Follow these…
Self Assessment
Become a better entrepreneur by becoming more self-aware and taking these self assessments. Become a better entrepreneur by becoming more self-aware and taking these self-assessments.…
8 Traits Of Austrian Entrepreneurs
Use this self-assessment tool to determine if entrepreneurship is right for you. Use this self-assessment tool to determine if entrepreneurship is right for you.
Effectuation Process
A specialization discovery process to help you find your niche and increase your chances of higher profits and long-term success. A specialization discovery process to…
115. Bart Jackson on How to Be CEO
From all of this data, processed via his empathic diagnosis, Bart takes two perspectives on the CEO: the job and the person in it.
Entrepreneurial Leadership via Understanding Economics
Use this as inspiration for starting your entrepreneurial journey. Use this as inspiration for starting your entrepreneurial journey.
113. Jacqui Boland’s Entrepreneurial Journey on a Red Tricycle
This week on the Economics For Business Podcast we were gifted the opportunity of reviewing and assessing a completed entrepreneurial journey, courtes…
107. Ivan Jankovic: The Special Understanding of Entrepreneurship by Americans of the Austrian School
Austrian economics has always been on the leading edge of innovative thinking applicable to business. Back in the last century, there was a group of…
106. Mauricio Miller: Entrepreneurship as the Path Upwards From Anywhere, for Anyone
Social services are the worst policy for such people. Entrepreneurship will open up the pathway out of the neighborhoods and out of the traps of low i…
100. Jeff Deist: Animating Economics to Serve Real People and Real Businesses
Economics is treated by many as an arid field of mathematical modeling. Human beings are treated as data in the model, almost the way physics regards …
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…
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 –…
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…
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.
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…
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…
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.
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 …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 …
