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Your Guide to Gaining a Competitive Edge and Succeeding as an Entrepreneur Over the Next 5 Years
As an entrepreneur, you must stay ahead and anticipate the future. To do this, you must refine your current skills and understand successful business practices while sharpening the most important skills you should master in the next five years.From recognizing potential opportunities to adapting quickly to change and maximizing resources for growth, you'll be better equipped to take your business…
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3 Business Models That Will Shape the Future of Entrepreneurship
As entrepreneurs, we always strive to stay ahead of the curve. Whether that's in our own industry — developing new technologies, services or strategies — or venturing into emerging markets. But with all the buzz about the latest tools, gadgets and startups, it can feel like the world moves faster…
Is Acquiring a Business Right For You? Here’s How to Know If You Should Buy a Business or Start From Scratch
We live in an age where founding an online business has never been simpler. Through the internet and AI, you can do more things and reach more people than ever before. And yet, many aspiring founders fail or burn out, never realizing their goals. Why? Perhaps because building a business…
3 Ways to Build a Business in an Uncontested Market
When you set out to solve a problem that only a few people fully understand — let alone know they have — you step into a space where the rules are still being written. That's both the thrill and the risk of a "Blue Ocean" opportunity. For me, this meant…
Here Are the Top 50 Mistakes I’ve Seen Kill New Companies
I've seen many startups succeed, and many fail. I've consulted for and invested in lots of them. My previous startup, Anchor, navigated its own challenges and missteps; we were fortunate to survive them, and ultimately Spotify acquired the company in 2019.Over the years, I've come to think of startups as…
Key Insights From a Roundtable Discussion With 5 Founder-CEOs
I recently fell in love with a popular YouTube series called The Actors Roundtable. Since I talk quite a bit with CEOs, founders and executives, a coworker suggested that we produce a similar version but with business executives. I loved the idea, so we did it! This was our first…
How to Build a Solid Go-to-Market Strategy for 2025
In a 15-year-plus go-to-market (GTM) strategy career, I have worked with hundreds of B2B companies directly, indirectly with other consultants or through any of the many accelerator programs I mentor on. During that time, I have seen a typical consistency that breaks all strategies — the lack of willingness to…
He Found a New ‘Niche’ and Started a 6-Figure Side Hustle
This Side Hustle Spotlight Q&A features Damian Primis, a 45-year-old musician based in Queens, New York. During the pandemic, Primis started olive oil brand Primis Imports as a side hustle; the business has since grown to six figures. Responses have been edited for length and clarity.Image Credit: Matt Dine. Damian…
The Investment Market Is More Competitive Than Ever — Here’s How Startups Can Still Secure Funding
The past few years have seemed like a bad TV romance between the U.S. market and the Federal Reserve. There's been so much talk of "will they, won't they" on interest rate cuts and trying to read the tea leaves that it can drive a person mad.This has created a…
Reebok Co-Founder Backs Syntilay’s New AI, 3D-Printed Shoe
In 1958, Joe Foster co-founded Reebok and helped grow the company to be worth $4 billion, he says, before exiting in 1991. (Adidas bought Reebok for $3.8 billion in 2005 before selling it in 2021.)Now the 89-year-old entrepreneur is helping launch a new high-tech shoe brand with slides that are…
Raising Capital? How to Build Strategic Investor Partnerships
When I founded my first company, I looked at reports and updates for investors as administrative tasks. Homework, in other words, outside my core duties as a CEO. But then I had an epiphany that changed my whole perspective — and my business.I discovered that having involved investors who held…
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Creative Ways Startups Can Earn Funding in Tough Economic Times
In a declining economy, startups face an uphill battle when it comes to securing funding.…
I Asked AI to Create a Plan for a Fake Company — The Results Blew Me Away, But Not in the Way You Might Think
With all of the recent news about artificial intelligence (AI), it got me thinking about…
Ideas To Transform You From Good To Better To Best
A while back, I took a couple of my grandchildren on a tour of the…
5 Crucial Challenges Startups Must Overcome
Startups face numerous challenges on their journey to success, and failing to overcome any one…