Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Voting rights give you legal control, but relationships determine whether your merger creates lasting value or lingering resentment. Understand that misaligned expectations will cost you talent, and legal fees can devour deal value fast. Protect yourself if you’re staying on, and get creative with entity structure to solve legacy problems. Good faith builds goodwill, but stay prepared for the worst and be willing to make compromises As M&A activity surged in 2025, with projections showing U.S. M&A volume hitting $2.3 trillion this year, founders across every industry are exploring exit…
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Array September 2025 QUESTION: Marty, I confess, I have no idea how your computer projects these events so far ahead. At the WEC you were warning about May 2026. There was a Directional Change in China for May and a Panic Cycle in August. Even the stock market you said a high in Jan/Feb, a March correction, but no crash. I can see that correlating the entire world is the only way to look ahead. What is baffling, is that Trump meets in Beijing but brings his tech boys and this seems to be ignoring the elephant in the room,…
Key Takeaways Nuseir Yassin is the founder and CEO of Nas.com, an AI-powered platform that helps solo entrepreneurs launch online businesses from a single product photo. Yassin left his software engineering job to travel and create Nas Daily, a one‑minute video series he produced daily for 1,000 days. With Nas.com, he is productizing his storytelling and growth experience into tools that automate storefront creation, marketing content and ads for small business owners. He grew his social media accounts to over 70 million followers across a decade. Now, content creator Nuseir Yassin is crafting a platform to address a common desire…
Madera, California, isn’t exactly a tourist trap. The small Central Valley city, with a population of about 69,000, sits along Highway 99, functioning more as an agricultural town and Yosemite gateway than as anything resembling a destination. But its first 7-Eleven just became the most expensive in California history. The store sold for $12.18 million just weeks after opening in late April, setting a California record for a single-tenant 7-Eleven, according to the California Post. The buyer, a private investor from the Bay Area, purchased the 4,644-square-foot franchise store on a 4.04-acre lot through a 1031 exchange. The property comes…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Josh and Katy Whalen built Joi + Blokes, a personalized telehealth company focused on hormone optimization, longevity and preventative wellness. The bootstrapped business has since grown into more than $50 million in revenue as demand for GLP-1 drugs, longevity treatments and proactive health optimization surged. The Whalens believe fertility and reproductive health could become the next major frontier in wellness. Years before “longevity” became a wellness buzzword, Josh and Katy Whalen were building Joi + Blokes, a company focused on helping patients feel better as they age. The married couple…
Robert Wolfe describes his company Zeck in one brutally efficient line: “We’re reimagining the entire miserable, archaic board meeting process.” After building and selling two companies with his brother Jeffrey Wolfe — outdoor retailer Moosejaw to Walmart and charitable giving platform Crowdrise to GoFundMe, where the brothers partnered with investor/actor Edward Norton — Wolfe realized his personal experiences with boardroom pain weren’t unique. “We thought we were the only ones who were having this challenge,” he told Entrepreneur, “and it wasn’t until after our companies were acquired that we realized this angst we were having was universal.” The problem: Traditional…
Key Takeaways Princeton University will begin proctoring all in-person exams starting this summer, ending a 133-year tradition of unproctored testing under its honor code. Cheating has become easier than ever, using tools like AI. Recent survey data shows a disconnect between the honor code and behavior: about 30% of Princeton seniors admit to cheating. For more than 100 years, Princeton University treated its honor code as sacred, to the point that outside monitoring during exams was essentially off-limits and a signed pledge was supposed to be protection enough. Those norms are now changing, as administrators move to rewrite the rules…
Zohran Mamdani, the 34-year-old mayor of New York City, who campaigned on making the city more affordable, is facing one of the hardest tests of leadership: delivering on ambitious promises despite facing a challenging landscape. After inheriting a $12 billion gap in the budget—the largest since the Great Recession—Mamdani just released his $124.7 billion budget proposal for the 2027 fiscal year. It includes important measures like funding for childcare, worker protections, and greater access to mental health care. It also includes some entirely new investments that focus on creating more affordable housing opportunities for low-income New Yorkers. In a video…
For high school senior Aliyah Pack, getting distracted during school is the norm. Kids in her Pennsylvania school district use iPads starting in kindergarten, switch to Chromebooks in second grade and get their own MacBooks in eighth grade.Aliyah has ADHD, and finds it difficult to concentrate when she’s learning from a screen. She’ll watch Netflix in class on her school laptop, hiding her earbuds behind her long, curly hair.“It’s very hard to get into the mindset of being in school,” Aliyah said.Aliyah’s mother saw her grades were falling and asked the school to take away her laptop. But she was…
There are several dimensions to the ongoing legal war between the media industry and AI companies over copyright, and one of the major ones is the question of outputs. Which is to say: Scraping content without permission may be detestable, but if the party doing the scraping isn’t doing anything with it that would compete with the content creator, it’s difficult to prove harm. And many legal proceedings, especially civil claims, depend on showing the actions were harmful. One of the earlier rulings in this area exemplifies the point. A group of authors, including comedienne Sarah Silverman, sued OpenAI way…