Podcast Transcript: Conversation With Dr. Keith Smith of the Free Market Medical Association (fmma.org); September 1, 2020 Listen to the full episode here. Hunter: Dr. Smith, welcome back to Economics for Entrepreneurs. Dr. Keith Smith: Thank you. Thanks for having me again. Hunter: Since you were last here, you’ve become famous. You’ve appeared on several […]
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 scale of his innovation task: to bring to healthcare the kind of customer experience only entrepreneurial free markets can deliver (see “Pillars of the Free Market Medical Association” PDF).
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 For Global Innovation And Growth at North Dakota State University) discussing entrepreneurship and meaning in life on the Economics For Entrepreneurs podcast, August 25, 2020. Listen to the full episode […]
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 serve others, making their lives better, and thereby improve one’s own life, making an entrepreneurial profit, both economic and psychic.
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 uncertainty is clear. The term business model sounds like a thing – a completed canvas, a written document, a spreadsheet with macros. But it’s not a thing, it’s a lived […]
Steve Phelan has spent a lifetime in entrepreneurship, as a student, a researcher, a teacher, an investor, an innovator and a practitioner. He found that people today — especially young people — are over-focused on the Silicon Valley / Venture Capital / Become A Billionaire model. That’s pretty rare (and may not even be a good model).