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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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5 Inspirational Quotes to Keep Every Startup Owner Motivated
If you're building a business, regardless of your stage, you've undoubtedly encountered challenges and trials that test your mettle and make you question whether you should keep moving forward.If that feels too close to home for you, you're not losing your edge or failing. You're probably right where you need…
How a ‘Scrappy’ Side Hustle Led to Over $150 Million in Revenue
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…
Join Entrepreneur’s Live Webinar With Ollyball Inventor
Getting a "no thanks" on Shark Tank — twice! — might lead some people to think that they needed a new idea. But Joe Burke is not one of those people. He persisted with a kids' toy idea that he developed at his kitchen table, and today, Ollyball has sold…
5 Ancient Asian Values Every Entrepreneur Should Know
More and more Asian economies are racing to the top, as the International Monetary Fund's April outlook projects that India would soon surpass Japan's fourth place in the global economic order and join China and the U.S. in the world's top five spots.On a micro level, individual Asian mid-cap companies,…
How toTree Is Disrupting Furniture Shopping
Journalist Tim Struby spent 20 years traveling the world, penning stories for the likes of ESPN the Magazine, The New Yorker, and Outside magazine. When COVID lockdown hit, Struby found himself with the time to finally fix up his place. The only problem? He really didn't know anything about interior…
From DIY Prototype to 3 Million Units Sold — How To Launch a Product Without Big Backing
Joe Burke, founder of Ollyball, is revealing how he turned a simple kitchen-table idea into a toy that has sold over 3 million units. This exclusive Entrepreneur+ Subscriber-Only event is live on Wednesday, May 28 at 2 p.m. ET — subscribers, scroll down to watch the full Q&A.Not an Entrepreneur+…
Grandma’s Recipe Started Business With $2B+ Annual Revenue
Mildred Reser started selling potato salad to pay the bills back in 1950. The recipe she perfected in a rural Cornelius, Oregon, farmhouse helped her launch a seasonal business, Mrs. Reser's Salads, which supplied local meat markets before it moved to its first small factory and landed distribution in Safeway.Image…
35-Year-Old’s Side Hustle Makes Over $50k a Month: ‘Magnetic’
This Side Hustle Spotlight Q&A features Alyssa O'Toole, 35, of Boston, Massachusetts. O'Toole is the founder of Musicians Playground, a Boston-based music studio and community built like a gym for musicians, offering adult hobbyists group classes in piano, voice and guitar, along with music-based team-building events. She's also the co-founder…
His Kids Kept Breaking Things Playing Indoors — So He Invented a Toy That’s Sold Over 3 Million Units
Joe Burke just wanted a way for his kids to play soccer indoors without breaking things. So he came up with a simple idea at his kitchen table — a super lightweight ball kids could use safely inside the house. He called it Ollyball.Image credit: Joe BurkeThat homemade solution turned…
My Bootstrapped Business Led to $20M for Women Entrepreneurs
This as-told-to story is based on a conversation with Audrey McLoghlin, founder and CEO of Frank & Eileen, a women's apparel company committed to providing resources to educational institutions to support women entrepreneurs. Before I started Frank & Eileen, I had already become a serial entrepreneur. My background was in…
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