Is starting a business on your agenda in 2025? If you don’t want to launch one of the roughly 20% of businesses that fail within two years, you should consider all of the factors that make or break success. And exactly where you start your business is one of the most essential pieces of the … Read more
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. While vision is important to success, execution matters most. Startups can succumb to multiple points of failure — people, products, competition and legal challenges, to name a few. These issues can be interconnected, compounding the difficulty of overcoming them. Ours is a cautionary tale concerning key man … Read more
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 the house. Responses have been … Read more
This Side Hustle Spotlight Q&A features JW Wiseman, founder of non-alcoholic craft cocktail company Curious Elixirs. Image Credit: Nick Kova. JW Wiseman, founder of Curious Elixirs. Launched in 2015, Curious Elixirs generated $2.2 million in its first five years — and skyrocketed past $50 million in the past five years. The brand has served millions … Read more
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Hi there! I’m Dima, the founder of PitchBob — an AI co-pilot for entrepreneurs. We started as an AI pitch deck and startup business pan generator before moving to a full-cycle co-pilot. One key insight I’ve gained from analyzing the journeys of both successful and unsuccessful founders … Read more
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. 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 … Read more
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. They say great minds think alike — or maybe they land on similar ideas because they are observing the same world all around them. Every year, as my team and I curate the absolute best books of the year, we discover some themes across the 1000-plus submissions … Read more
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 at the tech giant, … Read more
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Startups worldwide want to improve their reputations, meet partners and investors and scale their business. Innovative ideas come from every corner of the globe, which makes entrepreneurship open to anyone — no matter their background, gender, race or experience. However, depending on a startup founder’s location, it … Read more
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. A Walmart Business study shows that 70% of small business owners experience burnout at least once a month and only 10% feel they take enough vacation. This statistic highlights the challenge most entrepreneurs face in maintaining a healthy work-life balance. As an entrepreneur, I am not indifferent … Read more
