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About Hunter Hastings

Hi, Hunter Hastings here - I'm an economist by education, a marketer in my professional track, a venture capitalist in my current business life, an Individualist in philosophy, and a passionate supporter of entrepreneurship in whatever form I can practice it, support it and advance it.

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Meaning In Life Is Critically Important To Well-Being. Entrepreneurship Is A Key Route To Get There.

August 26, 2020 /0 Comments/in Podcast Transcripts /by Hunter Hastings

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 […]

80. Clay Routledge and John Bitzan: Entrepreneurship Brings Meaning and Purpose to Life

August 25, 2020 /0 Comments/in Economics for Business Podcast /by Hunter Hastings

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 Not What You’ve Been Told.

August 23, 2020 in Articles /by Hunter Hastings

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 […]

79. Steven Phelan on the Many Different Entrepreneurial Journeys

August 18, 2020 in Economics for Business Podcast /by Hunter Hastings

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).

78. Per Bylund Introduces the Austrian Business Model

August 11, 2020 in Economics for Business Podcast /by Hunter Hastings

Dr. Per Bylund joined us on the Economics For Entrepreneurs podcast to provide an exposition and explanation of the core structure of the Austrian Business Model (ABM).

Entrepreneurship Brings Us Optimism For The Future, Despite The Depredations Of Government.

August 11, 2020 in Articles /by Hunter Hastings

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 resource is not “science” but knowledge. It accumulates, perhaps at an exponential rate. Mises.org is one of the great consolidators of knowledge, attracting many more people than ever before (620,000 unique […]