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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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Why Most Digital Acquisitions Disappoint (And How to Spot a Winner)
The digital acquisition market is facing a quality crisis. After spending the last three years actively acquiring and selling digital assets, I've noticed some fundamental problems with how this market operates. However, there is also a tremendous opportunity for those who know where to look.Lack of quality deal flowThe public…
How 4 Women Started Multimillion-Dollar Businesses After 40
When you picture a successful startup founder, who do you see?The business world often glamorizes young male founders as harbingers of rapid achievement and revenue generation, but the reality looks a bit different.Research suggests that women-founded companies generate more revenue despite receiving less in investments, and a 2020 study revealed…
Business Advice: I Asked 100+ Founders of $1M-$1B Businesses
What does it take to start and grow a business to $1 million? Or even $1 billion?If you're among the more than six in 10 (62%) of U.S. adults who want to be their own boss, you might be familiar with the basics of entrepreneurship. Still, the prospect of leaving…
Why Every Entrepreneur Needs an Exit Strategy — and How to Create One
How can we be talking about starting a business and already discussing how to exit? It may seem counterintuitive, but having a well-defined exit strategy from the beginning is one of the most crucial steps an entrepreneur can take.When you enter a building, one of the first safety measures is…
BOI Reporting Requirements Changed Yet Again — Do You Need to File By the New March Deadline? Find Out Here.
It's enough to make you seasick, all the twists and turns, stops and starts, injunctions and stays that have defined the Beneficial Ownership Information (BOI) reporting requirements. If you're looking for the bottom line, here it is: As of this writing, most business owners are officially required to complete their…
7 Steps to Building a Smart, High-Performing Team
Success in business is never a solo act. Behind every thriving company is a high-performing team that understands its mission, works efficiently and delivers results. Just like in sports, where a well-coordinated team wins championships, in business, the right team determines whether a company scales or stagnates.I've built and managed…
How This Entrepreneur is Bringing Golf Back into the Spotlight
Golf is a sport with deep tradition, but it's not exactly known by casuals for heart-pounding excitement. For many, the word conjures images of exclusive country clubs, crisp polo shirts and a cold Arnold Palmer — not the kind of high-energy spectacle that keeps fans on the edge of their…
Why Rejection Is a Startup’s Best Growth Strategy
Starting a new company is like launching a ship into the open sea. You have invested your heart, time and resources in an idea, hoping that it will not only float but also conquer the vast ocean of opportunities. However, the first reality check often comes in the form of…
Scaling Your Business? You May Not Want to Hire More People Right Away — Here’s Why.
Within startups, especially tech startups, there's long been this idea that if you're not growing fast, you're falling behind. Growth has always meant hiring more people as quickly as possible. But today, I see things a bit differently. Scaling a company doesn't have to mean adding more people to the…
Why Smart Founders Take a ‘Backward Approach’ to Entrepreneurial Success
It's always best to start at the end!Why start at the beginning as grandma told you to do when you can start at the end doing things backward and better? In making bold moves toward sweet financial freedom that comes with entrepreneurial success, you'll undoubtedly hear from good-intentioned advisors saying…
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Creative Ways Startups Can Earn Funding in Tough Economic Times
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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…
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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…