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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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Workers Over 40 Are Turning to Side Hustles — Here’s Why

It seems that every day, there is another story about a young person who started a side hustle and hit it big. In 2024, over one-third of Americans had a side hustle to supplement their income. Side hustles are particularly appealing to Gen Z, with about half of them reporting

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Stop Losing Customers — 5 Friction Fixes That Boost Conversions

At Bask Health, we once forced every new patient to download a separate app just to upload their ID. Only 40% of them made it through. Six weeks of development, thousands of dollars spent, and we called it a funnel. That one decision cost us more patients than any Facebook

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How a Software Engineer’s Business Impacts Education

As Brandon Bailey, founder and CEO of TutorD, built his career in software engineering, he came face-to-face with the "lack of diversity and inclusion" in tech — and he wanted to do something about it.Image Credit: Courtesy of TutorD. Brandon Bailey. Bailey worked at a consultancy in Chicago at the

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Co-founders of Stakt on Starting a Side Hustle Earning $10M in 2025

This Side Hustle Spotlight Q&A features New York City-based friends and co-founders Millie Blumka, 31, and Taylor Borenstein, 31. The pair started a side hustle in 2021 called Stakt, an adaptable workout accessories brand.Blumka was a director of brand partnerships at Showfields and Borenstein was a product implementation manager at

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How This Startup Plans to End Restaurants’ Most Wasteful Habit

Life is full of minor inconveniences. Most people see them as annoyances, but entrepreneurs see opportunities. Small frustrations can spark ideas that lead to big solutions, and many of the best companies are built by solving problems others overlook.That's exactly what Dylan Wolff has done with his water conservation startup,

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5 Tips You Need to Know Before Entering a Growth Industry

For the ambitious entrepreneur, there is an ever-growing list of exciting new sector opportunities to explore. Many of these, especially those with billion to trillion-dollar valuations, belong to growth industries, which are defined as sectors of the global economy that experience higher-than-average growth rate. These sectors host a high volume

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How a Couple’s ‘Scrappy’ Weekend Side Hustle Made Millions

This Side Hustle Spotlight Q&A features Michelle Jimenez-Meggiato, 36, of Jersey City, New Jersey. Jimenez-Meggiato is a former entertainment marketing executive who left the corporate world to co-found The Pizza Cupcake, a frozen snack brand, with her husband, Andrea Meggiato, in 2018.Image Credit: Courtesy of incredifulls Learn how the couple's

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Average Ages to Make 6 Figures, Buy a House, Save for Retirement

There's no age limit when it comes to achieving significant financial milestones, but many people envision checking them off their list by a certain point in their lives.Unfortunately, these days, amid high costs of living and economic uncertainty, most U.S. adults fall short of wealth-building goals: 77% say they aren't

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How to Build a Startup That Actually Attracts a VC

When it comes to raising capital, too many startup founders chase investors before building something worth investing in. I've been on both sides of the conversation, as an entrepreneur raising funds and as an advisor helping founders position themselves for growth. The venture capital world doesn't reward effort. It rewards

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How to Run Multiple Businesses — From a CEO Who’s Doing It

Managing one business is challenging enough, but handling several at once? Now that's next-level. I should know — I've owned over 30 businesses in my lifetime, and as CEO, adding new ventures to our portfolio is practically a sport. Over the years, I've picked up plenty of strategies (and some

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