Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways When institutions wobble, vague values collapse. A written code makes your hardest decisions before the pressure arrives. You cannot predict which crisis will hit your business next. All you can do is know that it will come someday, so prepare yourself by deciding who you will be when it does now. On the evening of Friday, March 14, 2025, the White House issued an executive order that listed the Community Development Financial Institutions Fund (CDFI) among federal entities to be eliminated to the maximum extent allowed by law. My phone…
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Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Reflex phrases like “sorry to bother you,” “friendly reminder,” and “apologies in advance” frame routine requests as burdens and quietly signal uncertainty — replacing them with direct questions and clear context makes you sound more confident without sounding cold. A good apology names the specific impact and follows up with next steps; using “sorry” as an automatic opener dilutes accountability and buries the information the recipient actually needs. Do you find yourself typing “sorry for my late reply” if it takes you a little longer to get back to someone?…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Nearly all successful business owners have a retirement plan, but most have the wrong type of plan. Retirement plans are not one financial product. There is a wide variety of plans recognized by the IRS, and these are structured like a ladder. Here’s the ladder: Begin with IRA-based plans, step up to the qualified defined contribution plans, then move up to the defined benefit plans. Year after year, I find the same deduction hidden in the tax returns of successful business owners. This is not some tricky and controversial deduction…
ASIA: The major Asian stock markets had a mixed day today: • NIKKEI 225 decreased 130.18 points or -0.20% to 66,131.98 • Shanghai increased 44.048 points or 1.13% to 3,956.571 • Hang Seng decreased 87.23 points or -0.34% to 25,565.74 • ASX 200 decreased 89.60 points or -0.98% to 9,038.20 • SENSEX decreased 539.35 points or -0.70% to 76,933.59 • Nifty50 decreased 116.90 points or -0.48% to 24,090.85 The major Asian currency markets had a mixed day today: • AUDUSD increased 0.00254 or 0.35% to 0.71958 • NZDUSD increased 0.0006 or 0.10% to 0.59510 • USDJPY decreased 0.049 or -0.03%…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. I built my life and career on the word impossible. First overcoming absurd challenges on Dinner: Impossible, then turning around restaurants on the brink of failure on Restaurant: Impossible. Time and again, I overcame these challenges and proved to audiences that impossible isn’t real. It’s an idea—a mantra we repeat to ourselves when our best efforts fail, a story we tell others when we want to justify why our big dreams, plans, and goals haven’t come to fruition. “Well,” we say with a sad shrug and a curl of our lips, “it…
Des Bishop has built one of comedy’s most unlikely careers — a native New Yorker who became a household name in Ireland, then learned Mandarin well enough to headline stand-up shows in China, and later moved back to the U.S. to start over from scratch. His new special, “Bridge and Tunnel,” is streaming now on Hulu and YouTube. Des joined us on How Success Happens to talk about his wild career and share his advice with anyone trying to chase their dream — we’ve broken down 5 highlights of his insights to help fuel your own success. Listen Now Subscribe…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Most industry conferences are stuck in the same setting: a dreary convention center, a sterile hotel ballroom, endless rows of booths lined up next to each other. Founderland isn’t playing that game. Think of it as what conferences wish they were. The invite-only event for the consumer industry takes place at Calamigos Ranch, 250-plus acres of Malibu Wine Country tucked into the Santa Monica Mountains, complete with waterfalls, vineyards and a beach club. Produced by The Family Fund, this is where food, beverage, beauty and wellness brands go to connect with retail…
Welcome to AI Decoded, Fast Company‘s weekly newsletter that breaks down the most important news in the world of AI. I’m Mark Sullivan, a senior writer at Fast Company, covering emerging tech, AI, and tech policy. Sign up to receive this newsletter every week via email here. And if you have comments on this issue and/or ideas for future ones, drop me a line at sullivan@fastcompany.com, and follow me on X @thesullivan. Another OpenAI exec leaves the company OpenAI hired Chris Malone to manage its data center build-out in March 2025, just after the company announced its massive Stargate data…
In the first hour after you wake up, your brain is doing something remarkable. While you reach for your phone, pour coffee, or scan your inbox, it’s still coming out of its overnight cleaning cycle. The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke describes this process as flushing out metabolic waste and resetting neural pathways for the day ahead. What you do in that window doesn’t just start your morning; it shapes how those pathways perform for the next 16 hours. Your brain doesn’t switch on the moment you wake up, no matter how loud your alarm is. In the minutes after waking, thinking is…
It’s the middle of the work day, and Ok Go guitarist Andy Ross and I are trying to figure out which word best represents the nexus of the words “Mars” and “Netflix” (hint: we both picked a movie starring Matt Damon). This little brain puzzle is par for the course on Ok Go’s new word game, “Say the Same Thing.” The app digitizes a game that anyone who’s taken an intro to improv course will be familiar with: Two (or more) participants say a word at the same time, and then try to get on the same wavelength to identify…