Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Before deciding how hard to fight, get clear on what’s actually at stake — money, control, a relationship or a precedent — because that answer should shape your entire strategy. A settlement isn’t done until every key term is written down and specific — vague verbal agreements are where most disputes go wrong. High-stakes disputes have a way of making smart people move too fast. The pressure builds. The invoices keep coming. The emails get sharper. Everyone wants the problem to end. That’s usually when the most expensive mistakes happen.A…
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Key Takeaways Colette and Andy Bell started a handyman business in 1998 to tackle small projects for homeowners. In 2018, they connected with Ace Hardware, which purchased their business in 2019. Colette is now the vice president of franchise development for Ace Handyman Services, and she continues to lead expansion. Colette Bell and her husband, Andy Bell, started a handyman business in Denver, Colorado, in 1998 after identifying a unique need. They found that big specialty contracting companies did not want to do small projects for homeowners. For example, if someone had one sticky window and called a window company,…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways The most effective founders don’t work harder — they run a five-day audit to find where their own involvement has quietly become the bottleneck slowing the business down. Real growth comes from deliberately reclaiming time for strategic work, delegating the rest, and rebuilding your week around the few things only you should own. There is a stage in business where effort stops producing the results it once did. Your calendar is full, your team depends on you and yet progress feels slower than it should. You are involved in everything,…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways AI applications are rapidly compressing into commodities. The winner is determined entirely by context. Defensibility lives in the integrity of the data layer the agent calls. This reality drives a fundamental consolidation of the revenue stack, forcing us to reframe our mental model from localized tooling to true infrastructure. Achieving true infrastructure requires a data graph built on specific, non-commodity properties and defined by rigorous data provenance, absolute freshness and complex identity resolution. Instead of allowing isolated teams to independently prompt disconnected models — which inevitably yields generic AI slop…
Key Takeaways Huang is known for his “uniform” of a black leather jacket. Earlier this month, one of Huang’s legendary leather jackets went up for auction via Sotheby’s. Similar Tom Ford-designed jackets retail for around $7,000. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang routinely steps out in a black leather jacket. According to The New York Times, the jacket has been a staple in Huang’s wardrobe “for at least 20 years” and has become inextricably linked to the CEO’s image. In a 2024 interview with HP, Huang admitted that his wife and daughter were the masterminds behind the signature look. “I’m happy that…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Early on, alignment between culture and performance is relationship-based. It holds because people are personally close to one another, especially the founder. As companies grow, relationships stop scaling and alignment has to move to agreements: explicit roles, standards and expectations that let people who barely know each other still work as one. A genuine both/and transformation, where performance gets built into a care-strong culture without hollowing out that care, rarely happens without some leadership change and disciplined change management. Most founders believe a healthy culture is something you define, build…
ASIA: The major Asian stock markets had a mixed day today: • NIKKEI 225 closed • Shanghai increased 32.127 points or 0.85% to 3,796.281 • Hang Seng increased 580.81 points or 2.36% to 25,143.05 • ASX 200 decreased 5.40 points or -0.06% to 8,791.30 • SENSEX decreased 442.93 points or -0.57% to 77,708.52 • Nifty50 decreased 95.80 points or -0.39% to 24,238.50 The major Asian currency markets had a mixed day today: • AUDUSD increased 0.00241 or 0.35% to 0.70064 • NZDUSD increased 0.00059 or 0.10% to 0.58489 • USDJPY increased 0.131 or 0.08% to 162.534 • USDCNY decreased 0.00907…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Long before Adam Multz became the founder and CEO of Diamond Recovery Group, he was simply a younger brother searching for help. At sixteen years old, he watched his older brother struggle with substance use disorder. Finding quality treatment proved far more difficult than his family expected, exposing the challenges many families face when trying to navigate an already overwhelming healthcare system. That experience ultimately shaped the course of his career. Rather than pursuing behavioral healthcare as a business opportunity, Multz entered the field with a deeply personal mission: to help people…
A federal judge on Monday ordered Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery to halt their $81 billion merger for at least two weeks, allowing states that are challenging the deal more time to see their case through in court. Twelve states, led by California, sued to block Paramount’s pending buyout of Warner last week— alleging that such a combination would “extinguish competition” in Hollywood and lead to fewer choices for consumers, particularly moviegoers and cable customers across the U.S. The states’ top prosecutors called on Warner and Paramount to not close the transaction until after a court had time to “fully evaluate” their claims. And…
Last week, Seattle resident Kiana Hall spotted an oddly bedraggled-looking raccoon running across her backyard. She took a video, posted it on Instagram, and named the creature “Jimothy” in her caption. Less than a week later, Jimothy has been seen millions of times online, is getting followed by citizen paparazzi, and now has his own merch. Every once in a while, an animal comes along with such a striking appearance that it’s destined to carve out a fervent (if often short-lived) cult fanbase online. Recent examples of this phenomenon have included Moo Deng, the adorably chunky hippo who lives in…