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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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Jason Momoa’s Latest Role? Fighting Plastic Waste with Boomerang Water
Movie star Jason Momoa may have hung up his Aquaman trident, but his quest to protect the seven seas is far from over. His latest venture, Mananalu Powered by Boomerang Water, aims to tackle one of the world's most pressing environmental challenges: plastic waste. Alongside Boomerang Water co-founders U.S. Air…
How to Build a Strong Brand Identity for Your Early-Stage Startup
Working on your big startup idea, securing finance and finding those first core team members are all time-consuming tasks. Branding and marketing may not be the first things on your mind, but neglecting them could be devastating for a new company. On the other hand, building a strong brand identity…
This Fitness Brand’s Secret? Constant Innovation.
Customers might try something once. But how do you get them to return?Angus Long thinks a lot about this. He used to be an Orangetheory franchisee, and then founded a new kind of fitness studio called Hylo Fitness. He and his business partner, Matt Herring, built Hylo on a thesis:…
The Best and Worst States to Start a Business in 2025
Is starting a business on your agenda in 2025? If you don't want to launch one of the roughly 20% of businesses that fail within two years, you should consider all of the factors that make or break success.And exactly where you start your business is one of the most…
A Step-by-Step Approach to Achieving Your Goals
Success leaves clues, revealing patterns anyone can learn and follow. These patterns provide a systematic approach to turning ambitious goals into achievable outcomes. Successful people don't rely on chance or talent alone; they follow specific, repeatable steps that consistently lead to results.This article explores the essential elements that help people…
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…
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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…
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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…