Apparently, getting into orbit is far less mysterious than the female body. In 1983, as Sally Ride prepared to become the first American woman to head to space, an all-male cadre of engineers helping her prep famously asked her if 100 tampons would cover a six-day shuttle mission. Some 40 years on, NASA is considerably more hip to women, but little has progressed in menstrual studies in space. The physicist and astronautical engineer Manju Bangalore, 28, is hoping to change that next year, when she and Priya Abiram, 22, an aerospace engineer, board a Virgin Galactic flight to conduct the…
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Poppi’s culture team is not to be confused with HR. “It’s pop culture,” Sophia Sesto, VP of Culture, tells Fast Company—and they’re hiring. The buzzy prebiotic soda brand is looking to fill five social media roles, ranging from entry-level to leadership positions. But rather than just posting listings on LinkedIn, Poppi is playing to its strengths and fashioning its latest recruitment push like a brand campaign. It’s a playbook that has helped turn Poppi into a $500 million-a-year business in roughly five years, while generating more than 3 billion views on TikTok alone. “As a community- and creator-first brand, we’ve…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways The AI story has moved from “deploy it everywhere” to “prove it works when the stakes are highest,” and public markets are starting to price that distinction in. The winners in this next phase will be the companies that treat AI as mission‑critical infrastructure: mapped, hardened, monitored and pressure‑tested like any other core system. The AI conversation is starting to change. For the past few years, business leaders have been under pressure to move quickly. They have approved new tools, launched pilots and encouraged teams to find ways to automate…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. This article is part of the America’s Favorite Mom & Pop Shops series. Read more stories Key Takeaways Your tax bill isn’t decided in April. It’s decided by the structures, accounts, and elections you set up while the year is still open. Don’t treat taxes as a once-a-year chore. Treat them as an ongoing strategy, tune salary, estimates, and deductions during the year. Most business owners think about their taxes when it is time to file. The problem is that by then, the year is already closed, the income has already been…
COMMENT #1: Masterpiece! Many thanks Marty! Crystal clear!RK COMMENT #2: Marty, you must have spent your entire Sunday putting that together—and it shows. You’ve once again demonstrated exactly why your firm has offices worldwide and the largest institutional following in the business. As for those so-called experts who brag about “calling” the 2007 crash? Please. All they did was predict a collapse would happen someday, then patted themselves on the back when it finally did. It’s almost comical. I was on the floor in 2007. I remember when your model called the exact day—and everyone was calling it “Armstrong’s Revenge.” The…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Plateaus signal that your current capabilities have maxed out — breakthroughs come from widening your perspective from individual contributor to enterprise thinker. Say yes to stretch assignments before you feel ready, because the challenge itself is what transforms you into the leader it requires. Success teaches valuable lessons, including some that quietly hold us back. When you’re hitting revenue targets, earning promotions and receiving awards, it’s natural to double down on the behaviors that got you there. Then progress slows, and you no longer experience the same rate of growth.…
The government claims unemployment stands at 4.1%, yet a new analysis cited by CBS News found that 24.9% of American workers were functionally unemployed in July. Functional unemployment includes those who cannot find employment, people forced into part-time work because full-time jobs are unavailable, and workers earning less than $26,000 annually before taxes. Washington can call these people employed, but try paying rent, food, insurance, utilities, transportation, and medical expenses on barely $2,000 per month before the government takes its share. The Bureau of Labor Statistics is not measuring whether people are prospering or even surviving. If you worked as…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Read your own data honestly, then commit before your competitors update their assumptions. The opening is hiding in the data you already have — the winners are the ones who see it and move before anyone else does. When I was hired as CEO of Builderall, I inherited one mission: crack the U.S. market. The company had originally been built by a Brazilian team, and they believed an American CEO who spoke English without an accent was the missing piece to unlock the biggest market in the world. I took…
A bank does not actually have everyone’s money sitting in a vault waiting to be returned. The entire system functions because everyone assumes they will not demand their money at the same time. Once that confidence begins to crack, the numbers on a balance sheet become secondary because people want CASH. That is what we must now watch in Russia. Russians have been pulling billions out of the banking system, with demand for physical cash accelerating dramatically this summer. According to Russian Central Bank data cited in the press, nearly $3.4 billion was withdrawn during just the first two weeks…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways EBITDA remains an important measure of operating performance, but it’s no longer enough now that financing is more expensive and capital is more selective. Buyers and lenders stop asking, “How much EBITDA does the company generate?” and start asking, “How much cash actually reaches the bank account?” Adjusted EBITDA may influence the opening valuation discussion. Free cash flow often determines how much confidence buyers have in the business — and how much they’re ultimately willing to pay. Not long ago, almost every conversation about business value began and ended with…