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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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How I Built a $20 Million Company While Still in College
At 22, I've built two multimillion-dollar companies, raised $1.5 million while taking finals and convinced Miami University to pay me $200,000 to stay enrolled. While my classmates were buried in textbooks and partying, I was burning through sleepless nights and betting on ideas that seemed insane to everyone around me…
Why Saying Yes Is a Skill — And It’ll Change Your Life
I didn't scale my career by saying no. Not in real estate. Not in venture capital. Not in life.Sometimes the best thing you can do is say yes.Even if it's messy.Even if it's unclear.Even if it's outside your comfort zone.That's how I've always operated, and I'm still just getting started.Related:…
Why You Should Start a Business After Retirement
Retirement used to be seen as the end of the hustle, a time to slow down and relax. However, retirees are abandoning that old playbook. Most retirees want to have the time to do the extra things they could not in their lifelong careers.Due to better health, economic uncertainty and…
2 Important Financial Truths New Entrepreneurs Need to Know
When I first started my business, I approached budgeting with the optimism of someone who hadn't yet been burned. I treated it like a tidy math problem: Plug in a few cost estimates, apply a sensible cushion, and the numbers would hold. At least, they did in the spreadsheet.What I…
Self-Funded Founder’s 3 Secrets for $25M Revenue and 2 Brands
Growing up in Toronto, Canada, Tanya Taylor, now founder of her namesake womenswear brand and a second eveningwear brand, Delphine, didn't really know she could build a career in fashion, she says. However, as someone from a "very entrepreneurial" family, she'd always dreamed of running her own business.Image Credit: Courtesy…
The One Real Problem You Must Solve to Make Your Startup Succeed
Dropbox was born because Drew Houston was sick of emailing himself files. ConvertKit came from a blogger who was tired of clunky email automations. Notion grew out of the chaos of managing scattered notes and documents.These weren't random startup ideas pulled from a pitch deck. They were solutions to personal…
Raising Cane’s CEO Shares His Mindset for a Billion-Dollar Success
When Raising Cane's opened a new restaurant in Miami, it hired local influencers to hype it up. That included two of the city's buzziest names — Hanna and Haley Cavinder, twins who rose to fame while playing basketball for the Miami Hurricanes, and cofounded the TWOgether fitness app and Hustle…
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…
4 Tech Hubs That Are Challenging Silicon Valley’s Dominance
For five decades, Silicon Valley has been the hub of the tech world. Starting with tech giants like Microsoft, Apple and Atari and continuing with startups looking to attract unparalleled funding, having an address in this part of California seemed mandatory.For the first time, however, Silicon Valley faces competition. Emerging…
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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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5 Crucial Challenges Startups Must Overcome
Startups face numerous challenges on their journey to success, and failing to overcome any one…