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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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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…
Money Tip From Founder Helping College Athletes Manage Billions
The college sports industry is worth billions of dollars, yet student-athletes have only been able to receive payments for their names, images and likenesses (NIL) since a 2021 Supreme Court ruling.Student-athletes stand to gain more financially than ever before: In some cases, they'll see higher earnings than they might at…
Dog-Lovers’ Side Hustle Made Over $30k a Month and Will Hit $2M
This Side Hustle Spotlight Q&A features Teddy Tawil, 32, of New York City and Irving Fallas, 33, of New Jersey, co-founders of Tribeca-based dog daycare Happy Tails. Prior to going full-time with Happy Tails, Tawil and Fallas both worked in the wholesale industry, manufacturing apparel and accessories for a variety…
He Showed Strangers Photos of His Idea in Bars and Now Sells 100,000 Units Nationwide — Here’s His Secret to Valuable Feedback
So, you have an idea for a new product. You think it's good — but how can you really tell if people would pay for it?If you're starting out with little to no money, testing your product effectively can be tricky. You need to know if it's market-ready and if…
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Startups face numerous challenges on their journey to success, and failing to overcome any one…