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…
When it comes to raising capital, too many startup founders chase investors before building something worth investing in. I've been on both sides of the conversation, as an entrepreneur raising funds and as an advisor helping founders position themselves for growth. The venture capital world doesn't reward effort. It rewards…
This Side Hustle Spotlight Q&A features Scott Hattis, 41, of Brooklyn, New York. Hattis is the CEO and entrepreneur behind Loisa, the Latin food and kitchen brand co-founded in 2018 with his friend Kenneth Luna. Image Credit: Courtesy of Loisa. Scott Hattis, left, and Kenneth Luna, right. Hattis and Luna…
I was exhausted. My B2B fulfillment business had grown rapidly and was doing $1.2 million annually, but finding new clients was a grind. I was trapped in an endless cycle of networking events, cold calls, and business card exchanges that yielded minimal results.Then I discovered what I now call the…
Von Miller knows what it takes to dominate a field.For more than a decade, he's been one of the NFL's most feared pass rushers, a Super Bowl MVP and the kind of player who changes games and defines eras. But even after all the sacks and all the glory, Miller…
When I launched PhotoPacks.AI, I didn't have a team or funding. Just an idea: offer studio-quality headshots, powered by AI, for a fraction of the cost of a traditional photo shoot. Today, the product works, and it's growing steadily. But I've learned a lot of lessons the hard way.Here are…
Before founding Bask Health, my brother and I once pitched a telehealth startup idea to a VC with a 40-slide deck and a "disrupt healthcare" tagline. He stared at us like we were pitching a smoothie truck. Turns out, nobody cares how "virtual" your care is if you can't explain…
When Jacqueline Tatelman and her husband, Scot Tatelman, founded a nonprofit summer camp for hundreds of kids growing up in New York's under-funded neighborhoods in 2009, they didn't yet know that the experience would lay the foundation for a new business with a major give-back mission: STATE Bags.Image Credit: Courtesy…
This Side Hustle Spotlight Q&A features 35-year-old New York City-based entrepreneur Mehek Khera. Khera is the founder and CEO of Niramaya Foods, a snack brand "rooted in wellness and inspired by Indian heritage."At the age of 24, Khera left New Delhi, India and immigrated to the U.S., where she landed…
Twenty years ago, I launched my company with a head full of optimism and a thin playbook. The market was smaller, capital was scarcer, and the word "scale" usually referred to manufacturing, not software.Let me save you twenty years. Through three recessions, a pandemic and a Russian hack I'll never…
Everette Taylor had an entrepreneurial mentality from a very young age, buying candy at the store and selling it for a profit at school. At 19, he founded a business that played to his event-planning strengths and filled a niche in his community, EZ Events.Taylor learned an important lesson about…
In a declining economy, startups face an uphill battle when it comes to securing funding.…
With all of the recent news about artificial intelligence (AI), it got me thinking about…
A while back, I took a couple of my grandchildren on a tour of the…
Startups face numerous challenges on their journey to success, and failing to overcome any one…
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