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.

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.

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Leadership, Entrepreneurship Tom Noser Leadership, Entrepreneurship Tom Noser

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.

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Entrepreneurship, Leadership Tom Noser Entrepreneurship, Leadership Tom Noser

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.

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Entrepreneurship, Product Management Mary Frances Noser Entrepreneurship, Product Management Mary Frances Noser

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.

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Entrepreneurship, LeanKit, Networking Tom Noser Entrepreneurship, LeanKit, Networking Tom Noser

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.

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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.

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Startups, Entrepreneurship Tom Noser Startups, Entrepreneurship Tom Noser

Dan Hogan: What crypto and bourbon have in common and what it takes to be a good entrepreneur

Dan Hogan, successful founder, investor, and former entrepreneur in residence at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee talks about what it takes to start a business, why he's an entrepreneur, and his new venture of creating investment products that allow enthusiasts to invest in Kentucky bourbon. Dan also talks about what he wants to share with his daughter about his entrepreneurial journey despite her desire to go into public service instead of business, and how he makes himself rich by controlling how he spends his time.

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