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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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Our CTO Gave Us an Unexpected Ultimatum — and It Was Every Tech CEO’s Worst Nightmare. Here’s How We Handled It.
While vision is important to success, execution matters most. Startups can succumb to multiple points of failure — people, products, competition and legal challenges, to name a few. These issues can be interconnected, compounding the difficulty of overcoming them. Ours is a cautionary tale concerning key man risk.After recently going…
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 Investment Market Is More Competitive Than Ever — Here’s How Startups Can Still Secure Funding
The past few years have seemed like a bad TV romance between the U.S. market and the Federal Reserve. There's been so much talk of "will they, won't they" on interest rate cuts and trying to read the tea leaves that it can drive a person mad.This has created a…
Her Facebook Marketplace Side Hustle Grew to $25,000 a Month
It's the era of the side hustle, and if you've ever considered starting one to earn some extra cash outside of your 9-5, you're in good company. These days, more than one-third of U.S. adults have side hustles, and their supplemental gigs make an average of $891 a month, according…
You’ll Want to Know About These New Franchise Concepts
To view our entire 2025 Franchise 500 list, including category rankings, click HEREThere's a misconception that owning a franchise is for people who want to follow someone else's playbook. But that notion doesn't take into account all of the unique, quirky and fun franchises that are popping up all the…
These Emerging Franchises are Poised to Grow in 2025
Want to spot the hottest new trends in franchising? You need to look in a pretty wonky place: the Franchise 500 categories.Here's why: Each year, as we create our ranking, we organize every franchise brand by category. Some categories are simple and expected, like Sports Bars/Pubs. But every year, as…
Why Giving Away Your Best Ideas Makes You More Valuable
Want to attract new business? Here's one of the best ways: Give away your knowledge.This may sound dumb. Won't people just steal your work and abuse your time? Nope: When you give away knowledge, you build trust and authority — and people want you more!I've experienced this myself, and I…
The Most Creative Side Hustles We Learned About in 2024
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…
Is Entrepreneurship for You? Here’s How to Find Out
Many people dream of ditching the 9-to-5 grind to pursue the freedom of entrepreneurship. They imagine a life with nobody to answer to, no one dictating when we start or end our day. They picture limitless earning potential and the ultimate prize: freedom.Many dream of it, but not all take…
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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Startups face numerous challenges on their journey to success, and failing to overcome any one…