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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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Entrepreneur+ Subscribers-Only Event | March 26: This Stealth Mode Strategy Can Turn Your Side Hustle into a Six-Figure Success
On Wednesday, March 26th at 3 PM ET, the Founder of SotoMethod, Hilary Hoffman, joins us in our next Entrepreneur+ Subscriber-Only Event!In this exclusive event, Hilary will reveal the strategies she used to skyrocket her business growth by 1000% in just eight months, and how you too can turn your…
10 Ways to Make Every Day International Women’s Day
Grandma calls them "role models." Politicians call them "DEI hires." We call them "rebel archetypes" — rogue, defiant and unstoppable pioneers revolutionizing systems, defining power and building the queendom for all.In the mind's eye of these entrepreneurs, investors and leaders, every month is a celebration of Black history; every day…
How This Entrepreneur is Bringing Golf Back into the Spotlight
Golf is a sport with deep tradition, but it's not exactly known by casuals for heart-pounding excitement. For many, the word conjures images of exclusive country clubs, crisp polo shirts and a cold Arnold Palmer — not the kind of high-energy spectacle that keeps fans on the edge of their…
4 Expenses You Can Avoid When You First Start Your Company
Starting a business for the first time is always a process of trial and error. There are several elements that we, as founders, think are the most important things to get right. Hence, we believe we must hire industry professionals to produce the very best results we can afford to…
Is Your Corporate Job Masking Your Inner Mogul?
So it happened. You blinked and you're in the second half of your career. Suddenly, there are fewer rungs on the ladder ahead of you and achieving those milestones is no longer about merit or job performance, but a variety of uncontrollable variables: bureaucracy, nepotism, politics.There are plenty of entrepreneurial…
College Friends’ ‘No-Brainer’ Side Hustle Hit $20k 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…
Why Rejection Is a Startup’s Best Growth Strategy
Starting a new company is like launching a ship into the open sea. You have invested your heart, time and resources in an idea, hoping that it will not only float but also conquer the vast ocean of opportunities. However, the first reality check often comes in the form of…
Scaling Your Business? You May Not Want to Hire More People Right Away — Here’s Why.
Within startups, especially tech startups, there's long been this idea that if you're not growing fast, you're falling behind. Growth has always meant hiring more people as quickly as possible. But today, I see things a bit differently. Scaling a company doesn't have to mean adding more people to the…
Why Smart Founders Take a ‘Backward Approach’ to Entrepreneurial Success
It's always best to start at the end!Why start at the beginning as grandma told you to do when you can start at the end doing things backward and better? In making bold moves toward sweet financial freedom that comes with entrepreneurial success, you'll undoubtedly hear from good-intentioned advisors saying…
Business Advice: I Asked 100+ Founders of $1M-$1B Businesses
What does it take to start and grow a business to $1 million? Or even $1 billion?If you're among the more than six in 10 (62%) of U.S. adults who want to be their own boss, you might be familiar with the basics of entrepreneurship. Still, the prospect of leaving…
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Startups face numerous challenges on their journey to success, and failing to overcome any one…