The new iPhone 18 Pro series went on sale this week. Though they are the best iPhones Apple has ever made, their enhanced features—blazing-fast chips, better cameras, and foldability—come at a high price. While the iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone 17 Pro Max started at $1,099 and $1,199, respectively, the iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max begin at $1,199 and $1,299. Apple isn’t entirely to blame for these sky-high prices. The AI-fueled memory chip shortage is driving up component costs across the industry. And Apple, like every other consumer tech maker, is passing a large share of those…
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Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways A fintech founder shares the five numbers that reveal whether your business can withstand pressure — and how to read each one before it’s too late. In 2022, I remember looking at the dashboard for our savings and investment app and realizing it wasn’t helping me make decisions anymore.On paper, things still looked good. We had user growth, strong top-line numbers and the kind of metrics that usually signal momentum. But at the same time, investor conversations were changing. Fundraising timelines were getting longer. The questions we were being asked…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Under pressure, the brain defaults to automatic habits, so leaders fail not from lack of discipline but from environments that don’t support deliberate thinking. Sustainable behavior change comes from redesigning the environment around decisions — protected time, decision frameworks, fewer inputs — rather than relying on willpower. It is a familiar scene, whether you are standing in an operating room, a boardroom or a late-night war room before a major launch. The people involved are capable, experienced and fully aware of what success requires. Yet under pressure, something slips. A…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Your online presence is your first impression, so to make sure it’s a good one, you have to know what your company looks like from a customer perspective. Read the reviews about your business, search your name in the news, line up your listings in any directory you’re listed in and polish your Google Business Profile to make sure you look the best you can to current and potential customers. Picture this. A future customer hears your name at a dinner party. Intrigued, they reach for their phone before dessert…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Discover seven AI tools that help you build practical business systems without hiring a team or learning to code. See how customer research, app building and routine email tasks can connect into a workflow you can adapt. Learn why you don’t need all seven tools — and how choosing one useful job makes getting started more manageable. You’ve had the business idea for months. What keeps pushing it into “someday” is everything you think you need before you can start: a developer, an assistant, a working website and time to…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Being discoverable online is no longer about your business showing up on page one of Google search rankings — that’s the old way. Now, thanks to AI search, it’s about making sure your brand story is consistent across all platforms, whether it’s your website, your LinkedIn page or even Reddit threads. Ask ChatGPT what your company does, then ask Perplexity, then Gemini. If you’re like most of the founders I talk to, you’ll get three different answers, and at least one of them will be wrong. That should worry you…
Key Takeaways Warren Buffett, 96, disclosed on Friday in a letter to shareholders that he would be stepping down as chairman of Berkshire Hathaway’s board, effective immediately. He wrote that he was “more confident than ever about what lies ahead” as he transitions to the role of chairman emeritus. Part of Buffett’s confidence comes from his certainty that his CEO successor, Greg Abel, and his chairman successor and son, Howard Buffett, will run Berkshire well. Last month, acclaimed investor Warren Buffett celebrated his 96th birthday — and found that one of his great-grandchildren, who just turned one, was moving more…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Businesses can’t assume people will read important information. Crucial details need to be made highly visible and communicated repeatedly across channels. Use short paragraphs, prominent headlines, visual cues, repetition and verbal explanations to accommodate shorter attention spans and increasingly distracted readers. Track what prospects repeatedly ask and A/B test messaging to improve how effectively information gets through. “How much is the Strategy Session?” “It’s $2,950.” “Oh, I didn’t know that. It’s the first I’m hearing of it.” It takes everything in us not to respond. It was in the email…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Emotional resilience is not about pretending pressure does not exist. It is about facing reality, staying grounded, and leading with clarity when things get difficult. For senior leaders, resilience becomes a strategic advantage because teams do not just listen to what leaders say; they watch how leaders respond when uncertainty, setbacks and hard decisions arrive. When pressure arrives, resilient leaders pause, look at the facts, bring the right people to the table, communicate clearly and make the next best decision. I used to think resilience meant being tough enough to…
Key Takeaways Maria Cabral Menezes, 27, worked in finance at Citadel and JPMorgan before deciding to create a “dry shampoo for clothes.” The product arose out of necessity: Menezes frequently found herself with clothes she wore once that were too clean to wash but not fresh enough to wear with confidence. The Reset Spray, which retails for $29, hit $10,000 in sales less than 36 hours after its debut in early August. Maria Cabral Menezes, 27, never set out to be an entrepreneur — let alone one behind a product that achieved $10,000 in sales in less than 36 hours. Menezes…