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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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Side Hustles in 2025: Expert Shares Insights on Gig Economy
About 36% of U.S. adults have a side hustle in 2024, and 32% of them believe they'll always need the extra work to make ends meet, according to a survey from Bankrate.Earlier this year, experts from Gigworker.com compiled a list of the highest-earning side hustles, which include online instruction or…
How Failing 22 Times Paved the Way to My Success
Let me drop a little truth bomb: overnight success is the biggest gimmick ever.Yeah, I said it. The term "overnight success" is the perfect bait — shiny, exciting and easy to believe. But it's also entirely, 100% false. The truth? Success is a grind. A messy, sweaty, emotional, lonely and…
How a Grandfather Started a $500,000 Side Hustle on Amazon
This Side Hustle Spotlight Q&A features Joshua White, a 50-year-old father of six and grandfather of two based in Boca Raton, Florida. In 2019, White started a side hustle: Handy Famm, the brand behind a multifunctional STEM learning tool for kids that allows them to help with DIY projects around…
I Made $4M on Upwork While Sick and Want to Help Patients Now
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation Sam Bazzi, a long-time freelancer who's made more than $4 million on Upwork . After a battle with kidney disease, Bazzi started the nonprofit If Sam Can Do It, an organization dedicated to educating people about kidney disease and teaching kidney patients…
5 Benefits of ‘Ick’ Franchise Industries
When you hear the term "franchising," very few people picture a glamorous lifestyle. Fast food? Cleaning services? Home care? No, thank you. Often there's apprehension or hesitancy associated with that all-powerful "ick" factor.Long before entering the world of franchising, I was working in corporate America when a franchise consultant approached…
The Highest-Paying Winter Side Hustles — Plus Expert Advice
'Tis the season to start a side hustle. Many Americans are eager to earn some extra cash ahead of an anticipated holiday spend of $1,778, an 8% increase over last year, according to Deloitte's 2024 holiday retail survey.Although not quite seasonal, online freelance work is the most popular side hustle…
How They Grew $200k to $3M Side Hustles After Being Laid Off
In 2023, more than than 305,000 U.S. workers lost their jobs during a surge of mass layoffs that impacted the tech industry and beyond, CNBC Make It reported.Meta employee Scott Goodfriend was one of those people. After he was laid off from his "dream job" as an augmented reality producer…
The 5 Fears Every Entrepreneur Must Face — and Overcome
Entrepreneurship. Just the word stirs visions of innovation, freedom and the sweet taste of success. But for every dream of changing the world, there's a fear gnawing at the edges of a would-be entrepreneur's mind. These fears aren't unique to first-time founders; they're the silent passengers for anyone embarking on…
Why Startup Founders Need to Look Beyond Traditional Funding
If you're running a business, capital remains the fuel that keeps the engine running. Yet, for startup founders, traditional funding routes like venture capital or bank loans can often feel like a crowded freeway — full of competition, gatekeepers and compromises.The savviest founders throughout history have consistently looked beyond the…
Thinking of Starting a Business? 2025 May Be Your Year
Pandemic businesses are now more than four years old and many are thriving. In fact, recently published research has found "overwhelming evidence that the pandemic and its aftermath featured a surge in genuine entrepreneurial employer business creation," with new firm generation hitting levels not seen since before the Great Recession.The…
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Startups face numerous challenges on their journey to success, and failing to overcome any one…