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Your Guide to Gaining a Competitive Edge and Succeeding as an Entrepreneur Over the Next 5 Years

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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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Free Webinar | On-Demand: From Bottlenecks to Breakthroughs: 5 Barriers Stalling Entrepreneurs—and the System That Removes Them

Every founder eventually hits the same growth killers—isolation, decision fatigue, skill overload, stalled momentum, and a lack of real accountability. In this on-demand session you'll see why these five barriers show up and why quick fixes rarely stick.You'll also be introduced to The Boardroom, Entrepreneur Media's new six-month mastermind that

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How She Started a Business That Did $250k Revenue in Year 1

Marilynn Joyner was one of 18 women out of more than 250 employees at a New York City commercial real estate brokerage firm, where she worked for over 12 years. Although she learned the value of relationship-building and helped navigate high-stakes deals and negotiations, she found it a challenging professional

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I Turned My Hobby Into a Global Startup for Writers — Here’s the Playbook

Since childhood, I've been a bookworm. My all-time favorite books include a mix of non-fiction and finance. However, this didn't stop me from transforming my biggest hobby into My Passion, the top-2 e-book platform globally.The platform already has over 1,000 books, and every two weeks we release another 2–3 bestsellers.

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Starting a Business? You Need Founder Friends — Here’s Why

Starting a business can be a lonely endeavor. No matter how confident you are in your product and in yourself, there will always be times when doubt creeps in — usually just as you're trying to fall asleep.These crises of confidence can be fatal to your vision, but they don't

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5 Challenges Every Solopreneur Faces — and Smart Ways to Tackle Them

These days, something very interesting is happening in the world of online entrepreneurship.More and more people are choosing to build their businesses completely on their own. They are called solopreneurs — motivated individuals who focus on managing every part of their business alone.What separates solopreneurs from traditional entrepreneurs is that

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Entrepreneur Goes from $100M Men’s Wear Brand to Smart Baby Monitor Startup

Every good business idea starts with a problem, and Kevin Lavalle had a serious one to solve. Not long after his son was born, he realized the baby monitor app on his phone had crashed. Nothing went wrong, but the realization rattled him."My son was unmonitored all night," he says.

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What I Learned About Growth From Founders Who Started Small

Starting a business with limited resources is a road many solopreneurs find familiar — myself included. I've observed many small business owners turning modest startups into success stories, but it doesn't happen overnight. They turn their humble ideas into successful ventures with resilience, creativity, smart technology use and a never-accept-defeat

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This Company Gives Away 100% of Its Profits — And Its Thriving

Even the staunchest capitalists acknowledge the tension between profit and social good. In a consumer-driven society, money often overshadows morals.Many founders claim their companies exist to make a difference, but in a system that prioritizes profits, good intentions are easily squeezed out. The Green brothers stand out as rare exceptions.Award-winning

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Black Tap Adds New Concepts Tender Crush and Singles & Doubles

In 2015, Julie Mulligan and her husband Chris Barish opened Black Tap, a laid-back burger joint in New York City's SoHo. "It was inspired by the images and music we grew up with: Warhol, Basquiat, '80s and '90s hip hop and pop," Mulligan told Entrepreneur.Since its launch, Black Tap has

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Closer or Colder? How AI Shapes Your Customer Relationships

I'm not going to lie, the latest generation of AI, especially large language models and agentic AI, is nothing short of impressive. At Human Cloud, we used tools like Claude and Windsurf to accomplish in 5 minutes what had previously taken us 5 years.On the surface, it's a story of

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