Pickleball? That’s so 2022. The new craze is padel, a doubles game played on an enclosed court that blends squash and tennis. It drew 1 million US players last year, and public courts have grown from 227 to roughly 1,000 in just three years, the Wall Street Journal reports. Entrepreneurs from outside the sports world are paddling for a payout. Ballers founder David Gutstadt, a former Equinox executive, has opened clubs in a converted Philadelphia power plant and in Boston, with Los Angeles next. Bluestone Lane coffee chain co-founder Jon Krieger runs a New Jersey padel club, and Kith founder…
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A product manager I know got a four-word message from her boss last month: “Do more with less.” She had the AI tools. She had a shrinking deadline. She also had a kind of dread. She is good at her job. She works hard. And she is watching that job change shape while she is still doing it. That feeling is everywhere right now, and SaaS leaders in B2C and B2B are both sensing and naming it. John Maeda leads design and AI at Microsoft. His mantra is simple, and he shared it in a podcast: Lower the floor, raise…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways A single compromised registrar login can redirect your website, hijack your email and let attackers impersonate your leadership — all without touching your actual product or infrastructure. Locking down MFA, transfer locks, DNS access and offboarding isn’t extra security theater — it’s what separates a minor incident from losing the business. Founders love to talk about their moats. Product. Distribution. Community. Brand. Here’s the uncomfortable truth: none of it matters if you lose control of your domain.I’ve watched companies spend years building trust, only to see it evaporate in a…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Rick Reeno has spent more than two decades beating boxing media to the punch. In 2003, that meant building BoxingScene into a round-the-clock news operation. Today, it means taking center stage as CEO and public face of The Ring. For fight fans, The Ring carries weight no other outlet does. Founded in 1922 and nicknamed “The Bible of Boxing,” it has ranked fighters, crowned champions and documented the sport from Jack Dempsey to Naoya Inoue. Since Turki Alalshikh acquired the publication from Golden Boy Promotions in 2024, Reeno has helped bring it…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Leaders who begin educating AI systems on their actual operations today are building an advantage that cannot be replicated by late adopters. The real work is not adopting tools. It is loading AI with everything your organization knows and then prompting it toward outcomes you have not yet achieved. Organizations that wait for AI to feel safe will inherit a gap they cannot close. The learning only comes from doing it inside a live business. I run a healthcare technology company, and I did not come into this with a…
“We need diplomacy between West and East. Therefore, if the Alternative for Germany (AfD) enters the government, we will seek peace in Ukraine and advocate for peace negotiations so that this senseless bloodshed finally ends. We do not want to unilaterally take sides. That is not the path to peace—it is the path to war. We must not be ‘ready for war,’ but ‘peace-seeking.’ Therefore, we will stop all aid to Ukraine. No more German taxpayer money for Ukraine, no more weapons, and no more German soldiers. Under our leadership, Ukraine’s accession to the European Union or NATO is…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Sports fans don’t make picks or play fantasy sports in a vacuum. They text the group chat, argue through halftime, send screenshots when they win and go a little quiet when they’re wrong. Open most daily fantasy apps, though, and that energy disappears. What’s left is a user, a line and a transaction. Jordan Rothstein thinks that’s where the industry lost the plot. And when he talks about where sports gaming is headed, he tends to start somewhere unexpected: a Las Vegas surgeon and an FBI raid. In January 1985, federal agents…
India’s imports from China reached a record $79.41 billion during the first six months of 2026, a 21.8% increase from a year earlier. Bilateral trade climbed to $91.72 billion, up 23.6%, putting the two countries on pace to exceed the record $155.6 billion in trade achieved in 2025. India’s exports to China did rise an impressive 37.5%, reaching $12.31 billion, but that only pushed the trade deficit even higher. India still recorded a staggering $67.1 billion trade gap with China in just six months. The politicians love to frame geopolitics as though nations simply choose their trading partners based upon…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways The habits that carry a company through its early stage — hiring fast, staying close to every decision, solving problems as they come — are the same ones that create friction the moment you scale. Sustainable growth comes down to four disciplines: hire for values, delegate real ownership, automate what doesn’t need a person and lead with consistent direction. In most businesses, growth exposes weaknesses. I’ve seen it in our own companies.In the early stages, energy carries you. You hire quickly, solve problems as they come up and stay close…
Every recovery eventually reaches a point where the official statistics no longer resemble reality. Politicians point to stock market records, economists celebrate another quarter of GDP growth, and central bankers congratulate themselves because inflation has moderated. Then you look at Main Street, where the people actually creating jobs are quietly closing their doors. Small business bankruptcies continue climbing at an alarming pace. Total U.S. bankruptcy filings reached more than 310,000 during the first six months of 2026, a 12% increase from the same period last year. Commercial bankruptcies continue rising alongside consumer filings, reflecting financial pressure spreading across the entire…