Bob Luddy is founder and CEO of CaptiveAire (CaptiveAire.com), the US market leader in commercial kitchen ventilation systems. It’s a $500MM+ business with 1,000+ employees and a 40+-year success record. Bob explains to Economics tor Entrepreneurs how these principles of Austrian economics, applied as active processes, played a part.
Peter Drucker is famous for, among many other pieces of business wisdom, his statement that “there is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer”. That’s a statement with a lot of punch and a lot of clarity. It dismisses all the contemporary alternatives in the debate about the purpose of business […]
Podcast Transcript: Conversation With David K. Hurst; September 8, 2020 Listen to the full episode here. Hunter Hastings: David, welcome to Economics for Entrepreneurs. David Hurst: Thanks, Hunter. Good to be with you. Hunter Hastings: We’re greatly favored to have you with us today. You’re a deeply experienced and highly accomplished business person. You’re now […]
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.
It is preposterous to assume what customers say is more important than where they place their feet and the price they pay for products or services. The customer’s mind is still elusive and challenging for entrepreneurs. If understanding the mind of the customer were easy, everyone would do it! The insights of the Austrian School […]
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 fundamentals of economics. By this, we do not mean the economics of GDP and employment levels and the money supply, and not the economics of the Federal Reserve and the […]