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This website provides a forum for publishing essays and lectures on Applied Objectivism for Entrepreneurs. Having myself been an entrepreneur, angel venture capitalist, mentor to young entrepreneurs, guest university lecturer and a student of Objectivism for nearly 50 years, this is a subject of great personal interest to me.  I believe whatever success I have achieved I owe in great part to my application of Objectivist principles in all my entrepreneurial pursuits.

To launch this site I have initially published what I have learned in the form of essays and lectures about Applied Objectivism for Entrepreneurs. But it is my hope for those of you who share my interest, you may have developed additional insights that you will share through comments and submissions of your own, And for those aspiring entrepreneurs I hope you will find Applied Objectivism for Entrepreneurs of value to guide your own entrepreneurial pursuits as they did for me. For to me you are the most important group advocates of Objectivism could influence. You are the future Atlases of world.

John Vincent is a retired entrepreneur living in Canada. He founded a company during the early days of the PC industry developing software and electronic catalogs used by designers, architects and manufacturers in the construction industry. He sold that company at the age of 42 to a Fortune 500 company in the U.S. Thereafter he mentored, advised and invested as an angel venture capitalist in other entrepreneurs’ enterprises. He continues as an entrepreneurship judge and guest lecturer to students at the University of Victoria’s Gustavson Business School.

For the same amount of time he has been a student of Objectivism beginning with his reading of The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged in his early twenties continuing with reading all of Ayn Rand’s books and much that has been written by others on Objectivism. He does not claim to be one of the great entrepreneurs in the world nor one of the great scholars of Objectivism. But he has spent his entire life pursuing and studying both to discover the relationship between the two. As he advises young entrepreneurs, it is the intersection of two or more disciplines that produce the most creative insights. It is those insights he shares in these essays and lectures.