Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Instead of fighting the summer slowdown, treat it as an opportunity to improve your systems, streamline operations, and fix the processes that hold your business back. Avoid taking on every opportunity or new idea. Prioritizing one major business challenge at a time helps your team execute better and creates stronger long-term growth. The temperature is rising, vacations are booked and like clockwork, the mid-market business ecosystem hits an invisible wall. Welcome to the “Summer Slump“: a recurring nightmare of stalled sales cycles, non-responsive prospects and a leadership team running on…
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COMMENT: Marty,I just had to reach out and thank you for putting on this conference and sharing what you’ve learned over the course of your career. I know which university asked you to teach—and that you turned them down. I couldn’t help but notice that one chapter will be titled “All Governments Are the Same.” I also understand this is a break-even event for you, and that you decided against live streaming due to the cost. Even though I won’t be able to see you in person this time, my son and daughter will be attending, and I wanted to…
Last month, Elon Musk’s Space Exploration Technologies Corporation, better known as SpaceX, transitioned from a private entity to a publicly traded company. It entered the stock market on June 12 with the largest initial public offering (IPO) in stock market history. Yet on Wednesday, SpaceX shares (Nasdaq: SPCX) dropped below their starting IPO, after just a month on the market. Originally priced at $135, the stock dropped to $132.62, with shares dropping 2.2% in intraday trading. If these prices hold or decrease, investors who bought the stock at its original share price will begin to lose money on investments. SpaceX…
On a recent Sunday afternoon, the usual motley crew convened beneath the glowing billboards of Times Square. Costumed King Kong, Spiderman, and Minnie Mouse performers beckoning tourists for photos; snake guys assuring curious passersby that the reptiles draped on their shoulders really are harmless; and a group buskers announcing showtime. But there was one big difference from most days: all the soccer jerseys. [Photo: Leonardo Munoz/AFP/Getty Images] Since the World Cup began, Times Square has become one big, unofficial fan zone. Bogdan Zhukovskyi, an artist who has sold his paintings from Times Square for 15 years, tells me the groups…
More than 100 new vulnerabilities are publicly disclosed on an average day, according to Mike Sentonas, president of cybersecurity company CrowdStrike. What was once a trickle has become a torrent, threatening to overwhelm the organizations responsible for keeping critical systems secure. Sentonas, who has worked at CrowdStrike since 2016 and in cybersecurity for more than 20 years, believes the problem has grown so large that major organizations cannot test and install every available fix without risking outages of their own. Security teams are therefore forced to determine which handful of flaws pose the greatest threat. And the problem is likely…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways The niche you pick is the single decision that quietly determines everything else — your marketing, your margins, your ability to scale. Get your niche right and customers will find you before your product pages are even polished. Get it wrong, and you’ll spend months building something nobody wants. Chase durable over trendy, and specific over broad. Steady demand, a real problem existing products handle badly, and margins in the $30–$150 range beat any viral spike. I talk to aspiring ecommerce entrepreneurs every week. And almost every conversation starts the…
Key Takeaways Revenue stalls not because demand disappears, but because sales and marketing teams are often optimizing for different goals, creating a hidden leak in the growth engine. The fastest-growing companies eliminate this gap by aligning teams around shared definitions, metrics and accountability — not by simply generating more leads. Every founder eventually faces the same crisis. Revenue plateaus. The boardroom fills with tension. Marketing points to the dashboard. Leads are up. Sales shakes its head. The leads are worthless. Leadership demands answers.The real culprit is almost never demand. It’s the invisible wall between two teams that should be operating…
QUESTION: Marty, will you have any input into Warsh’s task forces that will study and give recommendations on improving the US monetary policymaking? H COMMENT: Marty, I watched some of Warsh’s responses in yesterday’s hearing. I was stunned by his response that he believes he can control inflation (ignorance mixed with hubris is a recipe for a horrible disaster). That said from what I saw yesterday I’d rank Warsh right up there with Yellen on the “oh my God, I can’t believe that person is chair” scale. I actually had to stop watching for a while because (to paraphrase an…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways In the AI era, leadership success depends less on working harder and more on making clearer, higher-quality decisions under pressure. Founders who cultivate clarity, resilience and long-term thinking will outperform those who rely on intelligence and effort alone. Founders have never had access to more technology, data or information. Yet many still struggle to turn bold vision into consistent execution. The problem isn’t a lack of intelligence or ambition. It’s that most leadership models haven’t kept pace with the speed and complexity of today’s business environment.That’s where I believe a…
The Producer Price Index, which measures wholesale inflation, was unchanged in June after economists expected a 0.2% increase. On an annual basis, producer prices rose 2.3%, down from 2.7% in May and below expectations of 2.5%. Core wholesale inflation, excluding food and energy, also remained flat for the month, while the annual core reading eased to 2.6%. On the surface, the report appears to confirm what Tuesday’s CPI numbers suggested—that inflation is cooling. The problem is that everyone is looking at the wrong cause. Wholesale inflation cooled for the same reason consumer inflation cooled. Energy prices temporarily collapsed after the…