I Built a Successful Business in a Niche Industry — Here’s My Advice for Entrepreneurs Trying to Do the Same
Creating a trash-bin cleaning business from scratch was a labor of love and came with some unexpected surprises.
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Train Your Mind to Handle Entrepreneurial Stress By Following These 6 Steps
Handling entrepreneurial stress is the key to succeeding in your business. Here are six actionable tips I use to manage entrepreneurial stress, which you can adopt as well.
General Motors Announces Over 1,000 Job Cuts in Major Software Division Overhaul
Around 600 cut roles are from GM’s technology campus in Warren, Michigan.
4 Retail Marketing Strategies for Small Shops
Attract more customers to your small retail business with these actionable marketing tips.
This Entrepreneur Was So Broke He Hid His Car From Repo Men — Now His Sound Therapy Pods Are in Luxury Hotels Worldwide
Ray Kelly’s journey from financial struggle to founding TERSA, a multimillion-dollar wellness brand, offers key lessons in vision and resilience.
Famed Investor Carl Icahn Charged, Fined for Pledging Company Stock as Collateral on Personal Loans Worth Billions
The 88-year-old investor is worth over $6 billion.
This Former Model Used Her Personal Savings to Start a Thrifty Side Hustle — Then Taylor Swift Became a Repeat Patron: ‘People Really Responded’
Christy Dawn, founder of her namesake regenerative fashion brand, says she’s always been on a mission “to create beauty in everything I do.”
The rise of the data platform for hybrid cloud
Whether pursuing digital transformation, exploring the potential of AI, or simply looking to simplify and optimize existing IT infrastructure, today’s organizations must do this in the context of increasingly complex multi-cloud environments. These complicated architectures are here to stay—2023 research by Enterprise Strategy Group, for example, found that 87% of organizations expect their applications to…
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This Former Opioid Addict Started an Innovative Vape Company — and Now Drives Millions in Annual Revenue
Puffco CEO Roger Volodarsky saw an opportunity while trying to kick his addiction.