Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Test what your founder will actually delegate. What a founder says they will hand over and what they actually hold onto are not always different. Map your founder’s inner circle. Nearly every founder-led company has a small group of friends and peers whose input carries weight. Translate your founder’s thinking for your team. How a founder talks is often different from what they mean, and the translation depends on which type you are working with. Know when the mismatch is structural. Founder-led companies operate differently on purpose, which can make…
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Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Organic social media builds real relationships with your audience without ad spend. It drives trust, brand awareness, and loyalty over time, but it has to be done strategically to deliver results. You do not need to be the expert. You just need to connect your team with someone who is. That is exactly where outside coaching makes a difference. Posting without a strategy. Content goes out, but without understanding what drives reach and engagement, growth stalls. Small businesses do this every day. They hand off the Instagram social media account…
Key Takeaways Apple is cutting internal budgets as it seeks to avoid overspending on AI. According to a new report, some Apple engineers have had their daily AI spending limits cut from $300 to $200. Employees are divided, with some seeing the cuts as reasonable, while others worry they could signal broader cost reductions and layoffs. Even Apple, the most valuable company in the world with a market capitalization of $4.98 trillion, is watching its AI bill. The tech giant is tightening internal spending limits as it looks to cut costs, Bloomberg reported this week. Apple is reducing how much…
Key Takeaways Hirsch founded Think Jerky, a meat snack focused on chef-crafted flavors, in 2015. Elizabeth Holmes eats the brand’s honey sriracha flavor in ‘You Can See Everything.’ Sales spiked 345% — and Hirsch is committed to capitalizing on the unexpected virality. On October 16, Ricky Hirsch’s meat snack startup Think Jerky experienced an unscripted marketing moment so crazy it’s “not even once in a lifetime,” the founder and CEO tells Entrepreneur. Founder and CEO Ricky Hirsch. Image Credit: Courtesy of Think Jerky Hirsch launched Think Jerky in 2015, building on his finance background and creative inclinations to start a…
ASIA: The major Asian stock markets had a mixed day today: • NIKKEI 225 decreased 3,643.13 points or -5.96% to 57,434.77 • Shanghai decreased 40.734 points or -1.10% to 3,649.177 • Hang Seng decreased 315.12 points or -1.27% to 24,481.86 • ASX 200 decreased 44.30 points or -0.49% to 9,020.80 • SENSEX increased 1,718.01 points or 2.17% to 81,028.02 • Nifty50 increased 493.75 points or 2.01% to 25,030.35 The major Asian currency markets had a mixed day today: • AUDUSD decreased 0.00681 or -0.98% to 0.68621 • NZDUSD decreased 0.00524 or -0.94% to 0.55416 • USDJPY increased 0.568 or 0.36%…
How did Annabelle Traves land the sweetest job on the planet? Let’s just say she pulled some strings. The concert violinist, who has soloed at Carnegie Hall and the Sydney Opera House, was just named Dr. Bombay’s first International Ice Cream Taster. In August, Snoop Dogg’s ice cream brand put out a call for the job, which pays $10,000 a month. More than 350,000 people from 130+ countries applied through HR and payroll platform Deel, which ran the search. Traves, an Australian based in Dubai, starts a three-month contract helping Dr. Bombay expand into new markets, dream up new flavors…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Relying solely on the talent in your immediate geographic area is a self-inflicted mistake. Although there is an entire global industry built to help companies hire remote talent, you don’t need to rely on it. As solopreneurs, we can hire in a more effective way if we are ready to build relationships in online communities. And it does not cost any money. Solopreneurship, despite its name, is anything but a solo pursuit. As we find success in our agency work, we inevitably need to build a team that can help…
Elon Musk, the Republican megadonor who spent President Donald Trump’s first few months in office clumsily disassembling whatever federal agencies he deemed too woke, poured a lot of money into the 2026 midterms—at least $474 million, according to The New York Times. Voters, however, were less enthusiastic about maintaining the status quo: Democrats are currently projected to win 259 House seats and at least 54 seats in the Senate. As an investor, even if you are capable of comfortably dropping half a billion dollars on an election, this is not the return for which you hope. Among many other things,…
Layoffs aren’t fun any time of year, but they can be especially hard when they come just before the holidays, raising anxieties about the future during what should be a peaceful and hopeful time of year. Unfortunately, workers at several big-name tech companies continue to lose their jobs in the lead-up to the holiday season. Those companies include Amazon, Angi, Block, Canva, and Squarespace, and represent just the latest round of layoffs in the tech industry—which has already been hit hard by workforce reductions this year. Here’s what you need to know. Amazon discloses yet more layoffs This week, Amazon…
Millions of Americans will begin putting up Christmas lights and trees in the weeks ahead, and many will rely on ladders to hang the decorations just right. But now the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) has issued an alert notifying consumers that 3.6 million ladders are being recalled because they could unexpectedly retract. And unfortunately, numerous people have already sustained broken bones, brain damage, and other injuries as a result. Here’s what you need to know. What’s happened? On November 5, the CPSC published a recall notice alerting consumers that approximately 3,662,000 ladders made by Little Giant Ladder Systems…