Key Takeaways Ali started planning travel on Fora’s platform in April 2025. He surpassed his $500,000 in bookings goal and saw $1.3 million in one year. Now, he works as an advisor full-time and continues to build his business. This as-told-to story is based on a conversation with Fora travel advisor Ryan Ali. Ali worked in healthcare advertising and marketing for about 15 years before becoming a travel advisor with Fora. He started a side hustle with Fora in April 2025 with the goal of reaching $500,000 in bookings by the end of the year. He more than doubled that…
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Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways The scrappy, hands-on mindset that works for a startup becomes a bottleneck as the business grows. Growth requires upgrading your internal story about who you are and what your business needs from you now. When you answer every question and approve every single decision, and employees ask for permission for every little thing, you’re not leading a team of adults — you’re parenting them. Get clear on roles and strengths, build a meeting structure where team members coach others in their specific strengths, raise the standards of professionalism, and build…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Jon Spiteri grew up in a family that has spent more than 100 years in hospitality. Spiteri rejects the idea that employees should “leave their problems at the door.” He says content doesn’t need millions of views to matter. For more than 100 years, hospitality has been part of Jon Spiteri’s family. But for Spiteri, that history matters less than what has been passed down with it: a love of taking care of other people. “It’s in our bones, that whole thing about people and looking after people,” Spiteri says.…
ASIA: The major Asian stock markets had a negative day today: • NIKKEI 225 decreased 96.59 points or -0.15% to 66,215.34 • Shanghai decreased 6.41 points or -0.16% to 3,979.888 • Hang Seng decreased 237.26 points or -0.93% to 25,329.73 • ASX 200 decreased 9.30 points or -0.10% to 9,066.70 • SENSEX decreased 12.99 points or -0.02% to 76,944.28 • Nifty50 decreased 24.60 points or -0.10% to 24,055.80 The major Asian currency markets had a mixed day today: • AUDUSD decreased 0.002 or -0.28% to 0.71467 • NZDUSD decreased 0.00245 or -0.41% to 0.58905 • USDJPY increased 0.499 or 0.31%…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Burnout in content creation usually gets blamed on volume. The real problem is structure. One person filling five roles at once has a ceiling, no matter how disciplined they are. The switch to getting help almost never happens early. It happens late, usually after something has already broken, like a missed deadline or a stretch of silence that costs real momentum. Delegating doesn’t mean giving up creative control. It means separating the parts only you can do from the parts that just need to get done well. Waiting until burnout…
Key Takeaways Daniel Lubetzky built Kind Snacks into a multibillion-dollar company, then sold it for $5 billion in 2020. The Shark Tank star’s routine often meant getting only four or five hours of sleep a night. Lubetzky said the relentless schedule affected his health and appearance. Daniel Lubetzky knows firsthand how quickly ambition can become all-consuming and destructive. Before selling Kind Snacks for $5 billion in 2020, he built the snack company into a multibillion-dollar business while regularly getting just four or five hours of sleep a night. The Shark Tank investor recently told Business Insider that his pace of…
Of the child safety measures agreed to in Meta’s landmark legal settlement, no category contains more detailed requirements than its commitments on age assurance—and for good reason. No matter how well the protections work, they are of little use if Meta can’t tell which users are kids. Determining which accounts belong to children is also the linchpin of child safety measures that other companies, including Google, TikTok, and Roblox, are ramping up as public and regulatory sentiment turns against them in the U.S. and other countries. The Meta settlement—with protections the company says could become industry standards—will give the social media giant a year…
The front in Ukraine is largely positional. A wide “kill zone” created by drones makes massed Russian assaults costly and difficult to sustain. Ukraine is closer to collapse for they lack the soldiers and have been turning to drones and robots. Russia has manpower depth and a wartime economy that, while strained, continues to function. Ukraine faces manpower, ammunition, and sustained Western support challenges but has improved its technological edge (especially drones) and defensive effectiveness. Peace negotiations remain stalled, and a protracted conflict remains the most likely near-term trajectory. What is changing the way wars are fought is the experiments…
If you have a fixed sum of money to invest every month or every year, which investment account type gives you the biggest bang for your buck? There are no one-size-fits-all answers, but this framework for retirement savings is a good starting point. 1: Invest enough in a 401(k)/other company retirement plan to earn matching contributions. Why: To take advantage of free money. Deprioritize if: Your 401(k) offers no matching contributions. In that case, proceed directly to No. 2. Even a lackluster match—say, 25 cents per dollar—is hard to beat by investing outside the plan, and it comes on top of any…
Today marks a historic turning point for Apple. After 15 years at the helm, Tim Cook is no longer the company’s CEO. Instead, John Ternus is stepping into the role—only the third person to do so this century. The first, of course, was Steve Jobs, whose impact on the company and industry has not lessened in the years since his passing. One his last day as CEO, Cook sent a final message yesterday to Apple employees. What is most interesting about the message is its striking similarity to the first message Cook sent to employees upon assuming the role in…