Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Your past doesn’t have to define your future, but taking accountability and holding yourself to high standards are essential to rebuilding your life and career. Look beyond someone’s past and distinguish between a lack of skills, effort or integrity. Support those willing to learn and grow, but never compromise on ethics. Hire for character and potential, rather than just qualifications or professional accolades. People who have overcome adversity bring a determination you can’t teach. I know what it’s like to have people judge you by the worst decision you’ve ever…
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France has now officially accused Iran of carrying out the massive cyberattack that crippled refrigeration systems across hundreds of supermarkets in October. What began as a seemingly bizarre incident involving refrigerators has become a matter of national security. French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot announced on November 9 that investigators had traced the sabotage to a cyber unit affiliated with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). The attack affected approximately 700 supermarkets, destroyed enormous quantities of food, and caused tens of millions of euros in losses. Similar incidents have since appeared across Europe, including attempts to compromise refrigeration systems used to…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Respect what you don’t know — if you want to enter an unfamiliar field, partner with someone who has spent years in it, and listen to them. Know when to let go, and understand that closing a venture is not the same as failing as a person. Give yourself time to recover, and study the failure on purpose. Try again, and don’t wait too long. Speed here does not mean recklessness. It means shortening the gap between learning a lesson and acting on it. In 1989, I opened an Italian…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Send handwritten Black Friday offers to existing customers, make your Black Friday offers easier to discover by AI, and create engaging videos to make a “boring” service impossible to ignore. Make your Black Friday deals impossible to miss on Google, use automation to turn abandoned carts into sales, and run short, frequent radio ads with a clear offer and promo code. Offer something free to win a higher-value customer. Giving away a small service can be a smart Black Friday strategy when it helps customers take the first step toward…
Key Takeaways Vinod Khosla, 71, is betting AI can replace one-size-fits-all websites with pages tailored to individual visitors. His firm, Khosla Ventures, announced an investment in AI startup Coframe this week. Coframe helps businesses tailor their websites for individual visitors, so more people buy something, sign up for something or take another desired action. He made billions betting on what’s next. Now this 71-year-old investor’s latest move reflects his conviction that AI will change how the Internet works. Vinod Khosla’s venture capital firm, Khosla Ventures, made early investments in OpenAI, DoorDash and Instacart. His latest investment, AI startup Coframe, targets…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways When people inherit jewelry, emotional value and real financial worth collide. What they rarely understand is the asset itself. This generational hand-off is occurring alongside a seismic shift in consumer behavior: the mainstream adoption of secondhand commerce. The companies that win this transition won’t simply be those offering to buy these assets. They will be the trusted institutions that help heirs understand what they have and empower them to decide what happens next. When economists and financial advisors talk about the Great Wealth Transfer, the conversation almost always centers on…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Your next regular could live next door. Hospitality has to last through checkout. Technology should give teams less work. A campaign targeting nearby residents brought 50 diners to a restaurant in Manhattan’s Meatpacking District on a rainy Monday night, says. For Sam Bakhshandehpour, president of local merchants at Bilt, the evening illustrated an opportunity for restaurants facing rising costs and pressure to fill seats. “No one’s traveling on a Monday night to go grab a meal,” he says. Rather than trying to attract diners from across the city, Bilt targeted…
Every entrepreneur knows what it means to chase something nobody else can see yet — there’s self-doubt, exhaustion, and long stretches where the only result you’re seeing is money going out the door. But still, you press on. That pursuit is at the heart of Neptune’s Fortune: The Billion-Dollar Shipwreck and the Ghosts of the Spanish Empire, historian Julian Sancton’s account of one man’s relentless hunt for a legendary sunken Spanish galleon. The book, named one of Barnes & Noble’s Best Books of 2026, tells the story of the San José, a Spanish galleon loaded with gold and silver that…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways When a company earns meaningful media coverage, there’s an obvious audience and a less obvious one. The obvious audience includes the people who read the coverage; the less obvious audience consists of all the future investors, customers and partners who see what your brand does with the coverage. Each of those placements has an initial audience. Each of them also creates a credibility signal that can work across every subsequent business development interaction if the company chooses to use it that way. The job of making that coverage influence the…
ASIA: The major Asian stock markets had a green day today: • NIKKEI 225 increased 1,684.08 points or 2.87% to 60,459.58 • Shanghai increased 2.932 points or 0.08% to 3,663.724 • Hang Seng decreased 108.09 points or 0.44% to 24,557.04 • ASX 200 increased 99.30 points or 1.10% to 9,129.00 • SENSEX closed • Nifty50 closed The major Asian currency markets had a mixed day today: • AUDUSD decreased 0.00725 or -1.05% to 0.68539 • NZDUSD decreased 0.00390 or -0.70% to 0.55926 • USDJPY increased 0.903 or 0.57% to 158.810 • USDCNY increased 0.00823 or 0.12% to 6.67764 The above…