After over 20 years in the healthcare industry, Shane Foss decided to use his passion for technology to improve healthcare operations and products. In 2018, he launched Hooray Health, an unconventional health insurance company that works hard to make healthcare coverage simple, accessible, and affordable. Shane educates others on what they deserve and should expect from a health insurance company, as well as what employers in the current job market need to reward and retain employees.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
When business started difficulties overcame:
“when you look at building your business everything comes from sales. So you have got to have the right salesperson if you are not that salesperson. So I think that the struggle I had and a lot of entrepreneurs have is that you have to have the person who is an expert in that field from a sales standpoint to help you with your sales channels. Whether that’s understanding it, positioning it or understanding who the key leaders are that you need to get in front of to make sure that you drive the sales revenue that you need to grow”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
Blue Ocean: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant Book by W Chan Kim and Renee MauborgneFavourite Quote:
“Love the problem not the solution” Founder of Waze mobile app
Recommended Online Resources:
- LinkedIn – is a business and employment-oriented service that operates via websites and mobile apps. Founded on December 28, 2002, and launched on May 5, 2003, it is mainly used for professional networking, including employers posting jobs and job seekers posting their CVs.
- Harvard Business Review – Find new ideas and classic advice on strategy, innovation and leadership, for global leaders from the world’s best business and management experts
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“patient, understand that it’s going to take twice as long as long as you think it’s going to take to be successful and stay determined. I think if you believe in yourself and believe in your product you are going to be successful and you just need to be patient”…[Listen for More]
More About Shane Foss:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“Creativity, as has been said, consists largely of rearranging what we know in order to find out what we do not know. Hence, to think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted.” George Kneller
Other Quotes From the Chat with Shane Foss:
- “it doesn’t have to be the grandiose idea and a huge market to be successful”
- “it goes to finding the right person for your team that has the knowledge base and the reputation and the connections in the industry”
- “always being a learner”
- “I get really nervous when I hear people that don’t listen to people or don’t talk to people and aren’t reading and aren’t trying to learn new things. And I think that’s a big part of an entrepreneur success is being a learner, listening to people and really being open-minded to different opportunities and different opinions”
- “I love change. It is a strength and a weakness, I love change”
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