Fortune’s Path: the Blog
Our collection of ideas and tools for building great products and leading a life founded on love. Because the best way to get rich is to help others.
JJ Rosen on Being In The Right Market at the Right Time
JJ Rosen is the founder of Atiba, an end to end technology services company with a 30 year history of serving clients of all shapes and sizes. A native Nashvillian, JJ talks about his childhood summers as a roadie with his Dad, how his obsession with computers began, and how being in the right market at the right time can mean you don't have to advertise your business.
Sloane Scott: On Being a Self-Pay Patient and How to Create Shareholder Value
Sloane Scott has an amazing personal story. Along with being a 3x ovarian cancer survivor, she has led multiple health tech companies to successful exits as a strategic leader and communicator. She discusses navigating her cancer journey with no health insurance and, as a successful business leader, discusses how to create shareholder value. She lays out in a detailed and practical way how to navigate safe pay as a patient.
Currently the Chief Marketing Officer at Collette Health, she's seen healthcare from a business and patient perspective, and has lots of valuable insights to share on both.
Jason Moore: Selling SaaS into Healthcare
Entrepreneur and successful tech founder Jason Moore discusses his experience in selling SaaS into healthcare and offers advice for those starting down that road. He emphasizes the importance of patience in SaaS sales, particularly in the healthcare industry where decision-making can be slow.
Walter Hindman: Junkdrop and Charity for Profit
How many of us have founded a profitable $800k business by the time we’re 26? Not many, but Walter Hindman has.
The company Walter founded, Junkdrop Nashville, connects those with too much with those with not enough. Learn why Walter never wants to sell anything he collects, why ecologically sensitive disposal is so important to his business, and what he loves most about being a leader.
Teja Yenamandra: How You Know it's Time to Raise Money
Why would you take on investors when you already have a profitable business you had boot strapped yourself? Is the advice you get from investors as important as the money? Are remote software teams as popular as they were during COVID? Teja Yenamandra, CEO and co-founder of Gun.io, a platform for matching tech talent with the best organizations, tackles all of these questions in this episode of the Fortune’s Path podcast.
The Tyranny of Genius: How the Idea of Individual Genius Holds us Back
The model of the individual genius does not encourage great thinking. It holds us back from community, discourages risk taking, and obscures truth. Thinking is a group activity.
There is no such thing as a completely original thought. Individuals can have insights, but groups of people create works of genius. Our approach to thinking and the manner in which we implement our ideas is what helps genius flourish.
John Farkas: Collaborative Leadership
Entrepreneur and marketer John Farkas tells how he created a digital agency built around the power of story telling. John discusses his background in theater and how that shaped his views about communication, business, leadership, and collaboration.
Bob Batcheler: Growing Your Network with Lean
Long-time friend of Fortune’s Path Bob Batcheler – "Batch" to his friends – talks about his journey with four start-ups. Batch gives advice about how to find your next great opportunity and not just your next one. A Lean leader and business consultant, Batch also talks about maintaining his network, and why it’s good to talk to people with no hope of ever getting money or favor from them.
Carm Huntress: Do We Really Have to Keep Faxing Medical Records?
CEO and start-up addict Carm Huntress talks about bringing healthcare out of the fax age and why strategy is misunderstood but so important. Carm talks about why he believes we'll all have digital access to our health records some day, but that it won't happen through direct to consumer approaches. You'll also hear Carm and Tom disagree about how to get the attention of healthcare executives.
How to Attract, Develop, and Keep Good People
Fortune’s Path Founder Tom Noser sat down with four other entrepreneurs for a conversation about hiring the right people and building a great company culture in the process.