My Theory of Creating Value

April 2, 2009 By Schwabe 10 comments

I don’t agree with the old sentiment that, “It takes money to create money.”
Because this just simply isn't true.

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Ben Bernanke’s printing press aside, it is innovation that creates money. Via new ideas, new skill-sets, new knowledge, and new paradigms of thinking to kickstart new ways of doing old things. My philosophy is that value is created by innovating a new way to reach a current objective [dibs on trademark].

And once you achieve that objective, you raise the bar and set yet another objective to reach for. Requiring innovation once again to achieve it. And such is the nature of perpetual human progress.

You see, in business - its not about taxes or employees or management or salaries. As an entrepreneur, you are a visionary; an adventurer who is tapping into the fundamental forces that makeup our universe - pushing the boundaries to create innovation for civilization. And prosperity for yourself & family.

 

Tools of Capitalism

Lucky for us, mankind has already progressed through the ages and innovated the very model of creating value. Giving us two additional important tools to more easily create it. These tools are concept of savings and the investment of capital.

The biggest advantage of capitalism; the main theoretical output is: to increase the value of money. It does this primarily by lowering prices. Which improves living standards. And encourages saving. And savings is at the root of economic growth and capital formation.

 

The Model of Value Creation

While brainstorming the concept of a gold standard, the economic policy which was the basis for the Industrial Revolution, I realized that the formula for creating value in a capitalist system is simple. There are only 4 fundamental keys.

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Innovation
The difference between stagnant sales revenue and an explosion of profit is a paradigm shifting ideological vision, powered by a dynamic strategy, and fueled by innovation.

It goes without saying that creativity, intuition, and insight are your sources of innovation. In addition, research, education, and good old brainstorming can lead to new discoveries.

Above all, it is the execution & application, what matters most. Ideas are great, but actions create results.

Value
Value is created by innovating a new way to reach a current need, objective, or vision.
(ie- a faster car, a bus that can fly, a city in space).

They say that “everything starts with an idea” - yet the kicker is that it doesn't always have to be your idea. In other words, if you already have access to value, you can use it to create savings & capital by simply putting existing (and often times hidden) concepts, assets, or ideas into motion.

Savings
Savings is the lifeblood of a healthy financial picture. And in addition to earning interest, savings can be made available to businesses to make capital investments.

The ideal environment for savings is in an economy where your money gains in value (unlike the many inflationary currencies of today). This is the basis for sound money and savings.

Capital
Capital can help your innovation create a bigger impact by providing you the fuel you need to manifest innovation faster and more effectively.

 

Capitalism Creates Prosperity

When these four fundamental concepts are applied together, they form a synergy of perpetual wealth creation and prosperity for the economy’s population at large.

 

Comments

Jeggs says...

Your crazy ! kidding of course. interesting theory, i like the "synergy" you've got going here

Konrad says...

Great post! Unfortunately, the downfall of this is when one or more of those nodes are stifled or blocked by an outside force (government) or people refuse, for whatever reason, to participate in the improvement of their lives via this cycle. This is where anti-capitalism enters, and given what you've outlined, I hope we can all agree that it is bad. Anyhow, what originally attracted me to this post was your comments on innovation, and I have the perfect example for you. In the 'homepage' box for this post I have put the URL to a site recently released by a friend of mine who has started his own software business. He's already seeing a lot of interest, and his innovative idea is already building Value.

Vampire Girl says...

Interesting theory schwabe. I can't say I fully agree, but there's some good points :) However, one thing to keep in mind is that innovation doesn't always create value. Many companies have been sunk trying to be innovative.

Dog Chic says...

Some times innovation can cost a lot of money. And sometimes all the money spent to innovate does not pay off. If a company has a few big misses, it could drown them. But a few hits, and they will thrive, as long as they have a solid RTB foundation afterwards.

Ribald says...

My theory is that money is just a representation of assets that have entered the marketplace. Simply put, if it's being sold, money is an estimate of its value, which is inherent in it whether it is sold or not. The interesting thing about innovation is that it does not exist before it is created, and can be created with no other limit but time. To the extent that innovation costs time, it costs money. If we take all un-utilized natural resources as intrinsically valuable and exclude established methods of utilizing them from the scope of innovation (so that value isn't created by simply using more resources), then innovation must be the sole source of all value. Innovation frequently costs money, but it can be nearly so cheap as to be free (i.e implementation of evolutionary algorithms in computers only costs as much as the energy it uses). In practice, people's minds follow value in narrow terms. A company is viewed as a closed system, so that when it acquires new resources, its value is increased. A broader perspective will show that, in fact, the resources the company has acquired did not increase the value in the world. Most companies merely help us realize the inherent value of our resources, rather than adding value to our lives.

Bwin says...

Thanks for sharing your comments

Very Nice theory but i dont know where did u get this idea

bwin says...

thanks so much

closets says...

Interesting theory, although a little too academic from my perspective. Unfortunately, most real life businesses do not rely primarily on innovation as a means to success. A more realistic model would be WINNING customers, providing COMPETITIVE prices, KEEPING existing customers satisfied and making a PROFIT. Any opportunity to be innovative or creative in this model is incidental to your primary goals.

Leo says...

Innovation is the most important thing to have in my opinion. It needs more of creativity.

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