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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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26-Year-Old’s Side Hustle Turned Business With $4M+ Sales
This Side Hustle Spotlight Q&A features Ross Friedman, 26, of Boston, Massachusetts. Friedman is the founder of Slacker Media Group, a live events company curating experiences at the intersection of music, lifestyle and entertainment. See how he grew the venture from side hustle to successful full-time business, here. Responses have…
How to Turn Retail Returns From Sunk Costs Into Revenue
If you're running a retail-based business right now, you're probably feeling it from all sides. Tariffs and inflation are squeezing your costs. Consumers are tightening their spending. And what used to work, from bulk ordering to blanket discounts, isn't cutting it anymore.So, where do you turn when both your margins…
The Most Dangerous Marketing Mistakes New Entrepreneurs Make
If I build it, they will come. One of the most egregious mistakes new entrepreneurs make is ascribing to this cardinal, early-stage marketing assumption. In crowded verticals, which is nearly every vertical, save for those few emerging technologies that hit the market every so often, this is a grave strategic…
Why Smart Founders Are Ditching Traditional Business Models
Every entrepreneur faces a fundamental choice: Build everything from scratch, or create something others want to build upon. Now, the smartest founders are discovering a third option that's accelerating their growth faster than either traditional approach.They're building ecosystems — business models where multiple players contribute to and benefit from the…
The Playbook I Used to Launch a Thriving 8-Figure Business — and How You Can Too
When I decided to launch a cold plunge company in Italy, I didn't have much to work with — no team, no warehouse and nowhere in my home to shoot product content. But I believed in the product and knew wellness was a booming category. I'd built companies before, including…
Why This Ex-TV Producer Walked Away From Hollywood to Rewrite the ‘Cat Lady’ Story
The term "cat lady" has long carried a negative connotation."When I started, everyone had a fixed idea of what a cat person looked like," says CatCon founder Susan Michals. "Very Eleanor Abernathy from The Simpsons — a hoarder, a spinster, 60-plus."That stereotype is just one example in a long history…
Teen’s $200-a-Night Side Hustle Became $20M-a-Year Business
This Side Hustle Spotlight Q&A features Charles Eide, 40, the Minneapolis, Minnesota-based founder and CEO of corporate events company EideCom. As a teenager, Eide side-hustled as a DJ, then began to produce major events at the University of St. Thomas. Read more about his journey here. Responses have been edited…
How AI Can Make Starting a Business on Your Own Even Easier — and Faster
I will never regret bootstrapping my business — but that doesn't mean it was easy. Now that they're so far in the rearview, it's easy to look back on those early days through the rose-colored haze of memory: the up-with-the-birds mornings, the evenings where I was so enthralled in my…
How Blanco Became a $20 Million Fashion Brand
Matt Sinnreich is the founder and CEO of the golf and lifestyle clothing brand Blanco. Launched direct-to-consumer in March of 2025, Sinnreich says Blanco is more than just a business to him. "I'm the guy obsessing over the cut of every shirt and dressing every model on the set of…
Her High School Side Hustle Is On Track for 7-Figure Revenue
This Side Hustle Spotlight Q&A features Leila Quraishi, 27, of Los Angeles, California. Quraishi's sock business Nudesox is targeting seven-figure revenue across all sales channels next year. Responses have been edited for length and clarity. Image Credit: Dan Simantov. Leila Quraishi.Want to read more stories like this? Subscribe to Money…
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