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.

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Beth Antony: Navigating a Better Way Through the College Application Process

Entirely by word of mouth, educator and college counseling professional Beth Antony has built a successful business based on a simple truth: there is a better way to navigate the college application process. Her better way applies not just to kids applying to colleges, but to anyone who's trying to find their place, including businesses that are trying to find their market. Beth’s dedication to both her pro bono and for-profit clients is inspiring and uplifting.

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Leadership Styles in Product Management

Over years of working with a range of tech leaders from all walks of life, Fortune’s Path has identified four leadership styles: the Finder, the Maker, the Delegator and the Decider. Most people use a combination of styles, but one or two tend to dominate. We take a closer look at each one.

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Andrew Kerr: Building Software is Like Making a Movie

Tom talks with Andrew Kerr, CEO and Managing Partner at FortyAU, a technology consultancy in Nashville that builds innovative software for some of the world's largest companies. Andrew talks about balancing quality and speed in the software development process, why many software projects fail, and how a bad rollout can kill the best software, on this episode of the Fortune's Path podcast.

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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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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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