The Financialization Of The Economy Distorts Our Understanding Of The Entrepreneurial Ethic.
True entrepreneurship seeks the market’s reward for serving customers well. Financialization seeks the insider trading rward of stock price manipulation.
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The Value Creators Podcast Episode #4. Reza Farhani: Navigating the Future of Work: Insights on Culture, Communication, and Entrepreneurship
Successful innovation is a combination of deep customer knowledge and deep technical knowledge. Both are critical, and it is the unique combination of them that becomes a marketplace advantage-serving customers by solving an important problem for them with a differentiated, preferred and technically superior approach.
Reza Farahani, the founder of WFHomie, is a data scientist, who, working at top global companies in tech and consulting, developed great insights into the way data can reveal human motivations and patterns in customer behavior.
Equipped with deep technical knowledge in data science and analytics as well as deep customer knowledge, he speaks on how we can apply this to startups to solve new problems for our customers, create healthy and productive teams, and create real innovation.
Socialism favors big business; capitalism is entrepreneurial.
Socialist economies have historically favored big business and kept them heavily subsidized to keep them close to the central plan.
The Value Creators Podcast Episode #3. Jason LaBaw: Culture And Technology Amidst High-Speed Change
You need two types of knowledge to succeed in the business world- specialized technical knowledge and deep customer knowledge. This will allow you to create uniquely valued experiences tailored to your customers and thus build a thriving business.
Jason LaBaw, as the founder and CEO of Bonsai Media Group and a pioneer in web development, AdWords, Google Analytics, and Umbraco development, has accumulated over 18 years of industry experience, client service, and strategic leadership in the digital world, has become an expert in combining technical and customer knowledge to scale.
In this episode, Jason touches on how he believes the future will look and what principles he is certain will be invaluable to thrive in a futuristic economy-such as empathy, panning, and budgeting.
The Value Creators Podcast Episode #2. John M. Jennings: Mental Models Are The Uncertainty Solution
In a complex world full of uncertainty, all businesspeople and entrepreneurs can draw guidance from shared mental models that help us make better choices. John M. Jennings took this advice to heart and developed a latticework of mental models for financial investing and any other business discipline, which he explained and expanded on in his book The Uncertainty Solution: How To Invest With Confidence In The Face Of The Unknown.
John is a premier thought leader in the wealth management industry and President and Chief Strategist of St. Louis Trust and Family Office, a $15 billion national investment firm. He is also an adjunct professor at Washington University’s Olin School of Business in its Wealth and Asset Management Graduate Program.
In this episode, he not only teaches why we always look for certainty and how we can be aware of certain pitfalls we fall into while dealing with uncertainty but also how to navigate uncertainty to not only come out unscratched but profit from it.
Entrepreneurship: The most important – and misunderstood – economic function for all businesses.
Entrepreneurship is not startups and shoot-for-the-moon risk taking. It’s te new managerial method of the digital era.