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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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Join Entrepreneur’s Live Webinar With Ollyball Inventor
Getting a "no thanks" on Shark Tank — twice! — might lead some people to think that they needed a new idea. But Joe Burke is not one of those people. He persisted with a kids' toy idea that he developed at his kitchen table, and today, Ollyball has sold…
5 Ancient Asian Values Every Entrepreneur Should Know
More and more Asian economies are racing to the top, as the International Monetary Fund's April outlook projects that India would soon surpass Japan's fourth place in the global economic order and join China and the U.S. in the world's top five spots.On a micro level, individual Asian mid-cap companies,…
How toTree Is Disrupting Furniture Shopping
Journalist Tim Struby spent 20 years traveling the world, penning stories for the likes of ESPN the Magazine, The New Yorker, and Outside magazine. When COVID lockdown hit, Struby found himself with the time to finally fix up his place. The only problem? He really didn't know anything about interior…
From DIY Prototype to 3 Million Units Sold — How To Launch a Product Without Big Backing
Joe Burke, founder of Ollyball, is revealing how he turned a simple kitchen-table idea into a toy that has sold over 3 million units. This exclusive Entrepreneur+ Subscriber-Only event is live on Wednesday, May 28 at 2 p.m. ET — subscribers, scroll down to watch the full Q&A.Not an Entrepreneur+…
His Kids Kept Breaking Things Playing Indoors — So He Invented a Toy That’s Sold Over 3 Million Units
Joe Burke just wanted a way for his kids to play soccer indoors without breaking things. So he came up with a simple idea at his kitchen table — a super lightweight ball kids could use safely inside the house. He called it Ollyball.Image credit: Joe BurkeThat homemade solution turned…
Entrepreneur+ Subscriber-Only Event | May 28: How This Founder Sold 3 Million Units of His Toy Ball Idea
On Wednesday, May 28th at 2 PM ET, the Found of Ollyball, Joe Burke, joins us in our next Entrepreneur+ Subscriber-Only Event!In this exclusive event, Joe will reveal how he built his brand without big investors or expensive ads — and walk away with actionable strategies to start your own.From…
My Small Business Started on Facebook and Makes $500k a Year
This as-told-to story is based on a conversation with Amber Starling, the founder and owner of Good Witch Cleaning. The piece has been edited for length and clarity.Image Credit: Courtesy of Good Witch Cleaning. Amber Starling. When I arrived in the "Little Apple," or Manhattan, Kansas, I had five years…
Refugee’s Multimillion-Dollar Business Beat Odds: Skrewball
Steve Yeng, co-founder with his wife, Brittany, of Skrewball Peanut Butter Whiskey, was born in Cambodia in the wake of the Cambodian genocide, which left more than 1.7 million people dead at the hands of the Khmer Rouge. When Steve was one year old, he was diagnosed with polio. His…
How One Firm is Engineering a Sports Revolution
In sports, success is easy to quantify on the field — fans and analysts alike rely on everything from points per game to advanced metrics like effective field goal percentage to evaluate performance. But off the field, progress is often less obvious.Sometimes, it's as subtle as improving a marketing campaign…
6 Myths That Are Blocking You From This $200 Billion Opportunity
When we first set out to launch a telehealth startup, my brother Eli and I were hit with obstacle after obstacle, each one more confusing and contradictory than the last. It felt like the system was designed to keep outsiders out. And for a while, we believed what so many…
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