Brad CostanzoEntrepreneur, AI & Innovation Strategiest

Opportuneur vs Entrepreneur with Brad Costanzo

Name: Opportuneur vs Entrepreneur with Brad Costanzo
Uploaded: 2018-12-09T20:37:58+00:00
Duration: 57 s
Channel: Brad Costanzo
Description: A short monologue by Brad Costanzo in which he coins and defines the term "opportune" (or "opportuneur") as someone who actively seeks market…

9 Dec 2018 · 1 min

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A short monologue by Brad Costanzo in which he coins and defines the term "opportune" (or "opportuneur") as someone who actively seeks market inefficiencies, gaps, and combinable needs, then organizes resources and capital to exploit them. He contrasts an "opportune" with an "opportunity seeker" (who passively hopes to stumble on chances) and with a traditional entrepreneur, and admits he is good at spotting opportunities but poor at building and scaling large businesses.

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My mom's always asking, what do you do? Yeah, I was like, are you an entrepreneur? I'm more of, like, an opportune. I find opportunities, and then I organize resources to take advantage of those. There's also a big difference between an opportunity seeker and an opportune. Opportunity seeker is always seeking opportunities that might already exist, and they hope they stumble across them like they're paying for gold. An opportune, which. I don't know if I invented that word, but Googled it, I don't think I found it. So I'm staking my claim on it. The opportune looks for. Looks for inefficiency in the market. They look for gaps. They look for needs. They pay attention to what's going on to what people are buying, what people aren't, and what maybe two different types of people might need. And they try to put them together creatively and see if they can organize resources and capital and ideas around making it happen. I happen to be pretty good at that and absolutely terrible at building and scaling and running a big business. That is not my bag.