U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping wrapped up critical talks on Friday, claiming important progress in stabilizing U.S.-China relations even as deep differences persist between the world’s two biggest powers on Iran, Taiwan and more.Following the trip, Trump said he had not yet made a determination on whether a major U.S. sale of arms to Taiwan can move forward. Speaking to reporters as he flew back on Air Force One, Trump said he’d not decided on the sale, but he added, “I will make a determination.”Trump’s Republican administration has authorized the sale but it has yet to…
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Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. The most successful marketers today share a counterintuitive trait: they ship imperfect campaigns and win anyway. Every marketing leader knows the feeling. You’ve crafted what feels like the perfect campaign. The positioning is sharp, the creative is polished, the strategy deck is airtight. Then it sits — waiting on another round of feedback, another stakeholder review, one more tweak in pursuit of perfection.Three weeks later, your competitor launches their “good enough” version. They’re already collecting data, optimizing messaging and generating revenue while your team is still debating headline variations.The hidden cost of…
Hello again, and welcome back to Fast Company’s Plugged In. When the software engineer and entrepreneur Deon Nicholas was CEO of Forethought, a customer service automation platform, he had an executive assistant to manage the minutiae of his workday. Not surprisingly, he appreciated the help. “That was something that I found was critical, something that actually helped me as a leader,” he explains. Few of us who aren’t in the executive suite have the luxury of calling on another person to wrangle our schedule, triage email, and otherwise keep the chaos of our professional and personal lives under control. As…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Real estate doesn’t fight change — it rewrites it. Disruption becomes real infrastructure faster than you think. The real estate industry is not afraid of new technology. It’s actually quite good at it, specifically, at taking new technology and making it work for the existing system instead of against it.This is worth sitting with, because the way most people in proptech talk about real estate suggests a stubborn, backwards industry that keeps losing battles with progress. That framing is wrong, and it leads founders to build the wrong things and…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Entrepreneurs often fail to create a personal plan, and even more fail to continually assess it. 75% of owners regret exiting their business — often due to a lack of personal planning. Use the assessment tools you’ve refined as a business owner to unlock personal planning success. The best entrepreneurs are planners. For most who are achieving success, they already have the long game in mind: a multi-year vision for their business with clear milestones and metrics to measure success. Established methods guide their growth planning, and those who aren’t…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Financial automation gives SMBs stronger cash flow visibility and faster, smarter decision-making. Scalable finance systems reduce manual work and free teams for strategic growth initiatives. Real-time cash flow insights help organizations strengthen planning, transparency and stakeholder trust. Today’s economy may be presenting new challenges for small and midsize businesses (SMBs). Still, these businesses have shown us time and time again that they have an innate ability to innovate, adapt and persist in every environment.How do successful businesses stay resilient? They leverage strategic financial tools to build stability, sustain and grow…
The British consumer is beginning to crack under the pressure of rising costs, war fears, and collapsing confidence. New data from Barclays, which processes nearly 40% of all UK credit and debit card transactions, shows household spending fell 0.1% in April compared with a year earlier. That may sound small on the surface, but this was the first annual decline since November 2024 and the sharpest pullback in roughly 16–18 months. What matters is where the declines are appearing. Travel spending collapsed 5.7%, airline spending plunged 8.3%, and retail sales dropped 3% year over year. Consumers are not cutting essentials…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways AI agents can override your instructions. Unlike a chatbot, autonomous agents have direct access to your systems — and a simple “stop” command is not a reliable safeguard. The security risk associated with AI agents is a result of architectural choices — direct system access, missing hard interlocks and context window compaction. Governance is essential before deployment, including architecture-level controls, audits, kill switch procedures and contingency plans. The advent of AI agents has suddenly opened up a world of limitless possibilities. Unlike a traditional AI chatbot, agents don’t just talk;…
Europe is now openly discussing restricting Microsoft, Amazon, and Google from handling some of its most sensitive government data, including financial records, judicial files, and healthcare information, and this marks a major turning point in the relationship between Europe and the American technology sector. According to reports surrounding the European Commission’s upcoming “Tech Sovereignty Package,” Brussels is preparing measures that could limit how foreign cloud providers manage sensitive public-sector workloads, specifically targeting the dominant American firms that currently control most of Europe’s digital infrastructure. This is Europe effectively admitting that it no longer trusts the United States to control the…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Most CPA relationships focus on compliance, leaving proactive tax strategy and planning overlooked. Q2 offers founders the clearest opportunity to evaluate and improve CPA relationships. Strategic CPA partnerships help founders make informed financial decisions before deadlines create constraints. Most founders don’t question their CPA relationship unless the cracks start to affect the business. That usually doesn’t look like a single dramatic mistake, but more like consistent delayed answers, reactive planning, filings handled only at the deadline and important decisions made without a clear view of the tax impact. In the…