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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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Richard Branson’s Business, Leadership Secrets With Jason Felts
When Jason Felts left small-town Texas for California in 1996, he was a fresh high school graduate who dreamed of building a career behind the camera.Image Credit: Courtesy of Hollywood Virgin. Jason Felts.Over the course of the next decade-plus, the young creative and entrepreneur did just that. Felts co-founded his…
Founders Deserve Fair Pay. Here’s How to Advocate For Yourself.
Then there's the old-school mentality among some investors that founders should "stay hungry," implying modest compensation is necessary to stay driven. Let's be real. Running a startup is a grueling job, and founders deserve to be compensated justly for their efforts.Compensation can be a tricky subject, especially for investor-backed founders.…
How This Entrepreneur Turned a Problem Into a Thriving Business
Mike Mayer is the co-founder and co-CEO of Windmill, a company devoted to improving indoor air quality with innovations in air conditioners, fans, and filters.Mayer will share his entrepreneurial journey with us live during an intimate Entrepreneur+ Subscribers-Only Event on February 19th at 3 PM ET. He'll be breaking down…
‘4-Hour Workweek’ Led to a $600,000 Side Hustle in 16 Months
This Side Hustle Spotlight Q&A features Mark Hellweg, 42, of Austin, Texas. Hellweg is the founder of two coffee-related businesses: espresso machine maker Clive Coffee and drip-coffee machine maker Ratio, which he started and built on the side while running Clive. Responses have been edited for length and clarity. Image…
4 Questions All Business Owners Need to Answer to Have a Successful Exit Plan
As another holiday season comes to an end, we've hopefully filled our cups with gratitude and taken some time to appreciate our last 365-day journey around the sun. For me, the holidays are always a time of deep reflection on the life I've built with lessons from my earliest teacher.My…
Her Business’s $300 Product Combats $12 Billion Porch Theft
So-called "porch pirates" were responsible for about $12 billion worth of stolen goods in 2024, per data from Security.org, and at least one in six U.S. adults (17%) reported having a package stolen last year, according to a survey from CNET.Serial entrepreneur Melissa Kieling's son Brennan Naylor was a frequent…
What’s the Key to Building a Strong Go-to-Market Strategy?
What if I told you that the number 385 was the answer to building a solid go-to-market strategy?Stay with me. I'm Paul Sullivan, author of Go-To-Market Uncovered (GTMU) and an expert in building B2B go-to-market strategy. I also created the ARISE Go To Market Methodology® for background and credibility.So, here's…
His Side Hustle Turned Full-Time Business Sees $100k Monthly
This Side Hustle Spotlight Q&A features Brock Giles, 36, of Salt Lake City, Utah. Giles is the founder of small-batch hot sauce and spicy cocktail mixer brand High Mesa Chile Co. Responses have been edited for length and clarity. Image Credit: Courtesy of High Mesa Chile Co. Brock Giles. What…
The Unspoken Truths of Startup Failures — 10 Cautionary Tales for Entrepreneurs
The startup world is often painted as a land of endless possibilities, where big dreams meet big checks. Entrepreneurs and investors alike revel in stories of unicorn valuations and rapid success. But there's a side to startups that's less celebrated — the graveyard of ambitious ventures that, despite raising significant…
9 Easy Side Hustles You Can Start This Weekend
It's no secret that life is expensive these days. We've all experienced sticker shock at the grocery store or gas station, and many of us are wondering how we're going to make ends meet — much less save for the future. But for entrepreneurs, a challenging situation is also an…
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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
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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…