Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways You might be asked if you’re SOC 2 compliant by potential customers. The process of becoming compliant can be costly and time-consuming. If your business isn’t ready yet, there are four things you can do now to reassure prospective clients. It usually starts with one email. A customer you’ve been courting for weeks writes back: “Before we move forward — are you SOC 2 compliant?” Then another customer asks. Then their purchasing department sends a security questionnaire with 200 questions and a deadline. You start Googling, and within an hour…
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According to the European Council on Foreign Relations, support for mandatory military service reached 62% in France, 53% in Germany, and 51% in Poland. Yet the most revealing numbers appear when the German results are divided by age, because net opposition among those aged 18 to 29 reached 46%, while net support among respondents over 70 stood at 49%. The people safely beyond military age are volunteering the young for war. They will not receive the draft notice, undergo the medical examination, surrender their careers, or be ordered into a trench. They will watch the war on television while congratulating…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Marketing and PR aren’t decorations added after growth — they’re the systems that made the expansion possible, and cutting them is the fastest way to strand the investment. When you go quiet, competitors get louder: it’s not the best who wins, it’s the best known. It’s a story that repeats itself over and over. A company makes a large-scale investment — a new building, a new location, an expansion into a new market, a big hiring push or a major capital upgrade — and then panics when cash becomes tight.…
Reuters reports that 1,600 Danish recruits began an expanded 11-month term of military service on August 3, up from only four months under the previous system. Denmark has extended conscription to women, plans to increase the annual intake from roughly 5,000 to 7,500 by 2033, and will send conscripts to Greenland for the first time. Europe is not preparing for peace. It is preparing an entire generation for a war its political class refuses to prevent. The new Danish program requires five months of basic training followed by six months of operational service. New tracks include drone warfare, and more…
Wall Street loves McDonald’s. But its CEO isn’t celebrating with a Happy Meal. The chain earned $2.36 billion in the second quarter, beating Wall Street’s adjusted earnings estimate, but same-store sales in the U.S. grew only 0.8%, a steep drop from last year’s 2.5% increase, AP reports. CEO Chris Kempczinski said the company’s strategy wasn’t the issue. “We simply didn’t execute at the level we needed to in the second quarter,” he told investors on the earnings call. He pointed to inconsistent restaurant operations, underperforming marketing and a pullback in digital offers that left customers buying less or skipping purchases…
The World Economic Forum has openly proclaimed 2026 the “Year of Water” and has introduced what it calls “Blue Davos,” bringing freshwater, ocean policy, food security, investment, and the so-called blue economy together beneath one institutional umbrella. The Forum states that its annual meeting will concentrate on “freshwater access and management, blue food security and ocean protection.” Those words may sound harmless to anyone who has never studied how political power actually expands, but management always means that someone will decide who receives a resource, how much they may use, what price they must pay, and under what conditions access…
This hasn’t been the greatest week for Elon Musk. First his SpaceX stock took a hit as its post-IPO lockup expired. Now one of his rockets likely crashed into the moon. Early Wednesday morning, the discarded upper stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket was due to slam into the moon at 5,400 miles per hour, more than twice the speed of a bullet, according to the New York Times. The scheduled time has now passed. So far, nobody has confirmed it actually happened. Astronomer Bill Gray, who first predicted the collision, called the odds of spotting a visible flash…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Success in one market never automatically transfers to another — the product may stay the same at its core, but positioning, distribution, communication and compliance have to be rebuilt for every region you enter. Purpose is not a brand exercise in global expansion — it is an operating tool that tells you which opportunities to pursue, which compromises to avoid, and how to hold the business steady when markets shift. Today, global expansion requires founders to navigate shifting economic conditions, supply chain pressure, regulatory complexity and consumer expectations that vary…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Each transition in the technology environment does not just change the tools; it changes what the job of technical leadership actually requires. At scale, proximity to the work becomes a bottleneck, not an advantage. As your proximity to the work decreases, your judgment becomes your most valuable contribution. AI has made technical depth at the CEO level more necessary, not less. Leaders who work with AI directly have accurate intuitions about what’s truly possible, where the real risks are and where leverage actually sits. When speed multiplies, direction becomes the…
Key Takeaways For the past four months, staff at the Andon Market store in San Francisco have been getting a firsthand glimpse at what it’s like to answer to an AI boss. Andon Market is the world’s first retail boutique run by AI, and it shows that AI is a lenient supervisor. However, the technology struggles with boundaries and has yet to turn a profit. What if you worked for an AI boss? According to a recent report from The New York Times, for the past four months, staff at Andon Market in San Francisco have been getting a firsthand…