Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways A great product needs someone behind it who is willing to put in the money, time, and effort to make it work. It doesn’t really matter how clever a product is if you can’t show people how it saves money, makes money, reduces risk or improves something they care about. A good story makes a product believable. I run a company built entirely on farmer-invented products, tools that farmers engineered to fix a real problem in their own operation. I get pitched dozens of them a year, and my job…
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Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Mid-year planning gives founders time to adjust the tax-saving moves that April filing cannot fix. Salary, entity structure and retirement contributions should be planned together with an advisor. QBI and Augusta Rule savings require legitimate use, defensible pricing and clean documentation. Most founders treat tax planning as a winter sport. You think about it in December, panic about it in April, and ignore it the rest of the year. That timing is backward. The moves that actually lower your bill have to be made while the year is still open,…
Lawmakers from both parties are pressing the Treasury to target Chinese banks over their business with Iran. Washington is taking a confrontation it has failed to resolve and looking for ways to extend it into the financial system of another major power. The assumption is that Beijing will eventually surrender its commercial interests rather than risk losing access to American finance. What happens if China decides that accepting Washington’s authority over its banks is more dangerous than resisting it? That is the question missing from the tough talk about making other countries pay. Lawmakers are demanding action against Chinese banks…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways The habits that built the business often become the very ones that hold it back later. It’s what happens when circumstances change faster than habits do. Most business owners already know they should delegate more and approve less. What’s harder to let go of is the identity built around those habits. Gratitude for a habit and lifelong loyalty to it are two different things, and taking an honest look at which one you’re actually practicing is a start if you want to grow. 1975. A young engineer named Steven Sasson…
The Bank for International Settlements is warning that near-record public debt and the growing role of hedge funds and other nonbank financial institutions have created what it calls a “fiscal-financial stability nexus.” That is sanitized bureaucratic language for a system in which governments, banks, pension funds, insurers, hedge funds, and central banks are all chained to the same mountain of sovereign debt. If government bonds begin to fail, the losses will not remain confined to some account at the Treasury. They will spread through the institutions holding the public’s savings and eventually force central banks to choose between the currency…
Key Takeaways Escobedo launched her laundry side hustle on Poplin in 2025. Currently, she brings in up to $11,000 a month and is anticipating nearly $90,000 total this year. The side hustle gives her more flexibility than Uber, and she plans to grow the business. This as-told-to story is based on a conversation with Monalisa Escobedo, 38, of Chula Vista, California. Escobedo, a personnel specialist in the U.S. Navy, was on active duty when she stumbled upon an intriguing side hustle: Poplin, a wash-dry-fold personal laundry service platform. She started her side hustle in 2025. To date, she’s completed about…
Switzerland is developing a nationwide system that will allow consumers to make card payments even when internet and telecommunications networks are unavailable. The government, Swiss National Bank, commercial banks, payment providers, terminal manufacturers, and major retailers are working together to make approximately 16.5 million debit and credit cards capable of operating offline, with broad deployment planned by the end of 2027. They are constructing an entirely new emergency payment infrastructure to create “offline payments” that are still under government’s watchful eye. Cash does not need authorization, a PIN, a working terminal, a battery, a generator, or a promise that the…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Sophisticated buyers don’t value businesses by plugging numbers into a spreadsheet. They work through a series of questions, each one testing whether the business deserves more confidence or more caution. I think of it as a Financial Truth Ladder that reflects how institutional buyers evaluate businesses before assigning value. Every rung either builds trust or introduces doubt. The five questions every institutional buyer asks: Can we trust the numbers? Are the earnings real? Does profit become cash? Can the business succeed without you? How predictable is tomorrow? Every business owner…
Key Takeaways LinkedIn added a new feature last month: a button users can press if the content they’re seeing “seems like AI slop,” or poorly generated AI content. In the first two weeks of the button’s launch, more than a million people have used it. AI-detection startup Pangram recently classified more than 40% of LinkedIn’s long-form posts as entirely AI-generated. LinkedIn doesn’t want to lose users to a flood of AI content. In an effort to create a better user experience, LinkedIn chief product officer Hari Srinivasan announced in a post on the platform last month that the company would…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Values only prove themselves under pressure — the cheaper supplier you turn down, the profitable deal that doesn’t fit, the trend you let pass are what compound into a brand customers actually trust.Purpose earns its keep as a filter, not a slogan — the strongest companies use their mission to decide what opportunities, partnerships, and shortcuts to walk away from, even when nobody would fault them for taking the easier path. Purpose earns its keep as a filter, not a slogan — the strongest companies use their mission to decide…