Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Understanding a company’s financial health takes more than just looking at profit, because a business can look successful on paper while still struggling to stay afloat day to day. That’s because profit is an accounting measure — it’s shaped by timing rules, estimates and non-cash adjustments. This is why the cash flow statement is one of the most important documents for understanding how a business really works. It’s split into three main categories — operating activities, investing activities and financing activities — and together these three sections give you a full picture…
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Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Kwamane Liddell did not build ThriveLink because he thought healthcare needed another app. He built it because he had seen what happens when access breaks down in ordinary, avoidable ways. His uncle suffered a stroke while living in a food desert, an experience that shaped how Liddell came to understand the link between health, infrastructure and everyday access. Liddell’s own path through healthcare gave him a different perspective on the problem. He started as a hospital janitor, later became a trauma nurse, trained as a lawyer and eventually moved into executive leadership. Across those…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Chasing bigger numbers at the expense of employees eventually hurts the business too. When employees feel valued and understand why their work matters, they’re more resilient and less likely to burn out. Listening to employees and acting on their feedback builds trust, engagement and long-term retention. Burnout is often framed as a workload problem. But in high-performing organizations — especially those that are people-based — that’s rarely the full story. I’m seeing this play out daily in veterinary medicine. One vet I recently spoke to was seeing 20-plus patients a…
The politicians insisted for years that the border crisis was somehow good for the economy. They claimed millions of illegal migrants would solve labor shortages, keep inflation down, and somehow make America stronger. Now even a Federal Reserve study is acknowledging what ordinary Americans have been living through every single day. The damage was real, measurable, and far more significant than Washington was willing to admit. A new working paper from the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas examined the unprecedented wave of unauthorized immigration between 2021 and 2024. According to the Congressional Budget Office, roughly 7 million unauthorized migrants were…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Paper has had a decade-long head start as the “sustainable” alternative, and yet the global packaging waste problem is far from solved. For entrepreneurs making packaging decisions, this reframe changes the game. The opportunity is not in finding a slightly less harmful disposable. It is in designing materials and systems where disposability itself becomes unnecessary. Not many people spend their idle hours reading research findings about trash management. I do. What happens to a material at the end of its life is at the core of the work I do.…
Spain’s latest position perfectly illustrates what has become one of the great contradictions within NATO. Madrid wants Europe to build its own military capable of acting independently of Washington, yet Spain has consistently resisted NATO’s higher defense spending targets while expecting the alliance to continue providing collective security. Spain is again championing the idea of a European army while insisting it can meet its NATO obligations without matching the spending commitments accepted by virtually every other member. Europe cannot demand strategic independence while simultaneously asking someone else to pay the bill. I have said for years that Europe has always…
Everyone I know these days is busy. They put in long hours at work running from one meeting to another, writing reports, engaging in internal and customer-facing work. There isn’t much downtime. Yet, all that busy-ness doesn’t necessarily equate to production. Often, you do the next thing in front of you without thinking about the costs associated with the work. Every time you engage in a task, it has a real cost to it. There is the amount of money that the company is paying for your time plus whatever other resources you eat up by doing the work. (In…
The politicians are now trying to redefine what victory means because they cannot admit the obvious. CNBC reported that Finnish President Alexander Stubb declared that Ukraine has already “won the war” against Russia because it preserved its independence and sovereignty. He said, “I say Ukraine has won,” while arguing that Russia advanced only 60 kilometers in four years. Sweden’s Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson joined the same fantasy, saying, “Russia is certainly not winning,” and claiming Ukraine is having “spectacular successes.” These people are playing word games while young men are still dying every day in trenches, cities are still being…
Every year, a new crop of trend forecasts attempts to spell out where different industries are heading; for me, the most interesting is the state of design. While the predictions vary, a clear theme is emerging: The most important design story of 2026, according to our iF Design’s 2026 Trend Report, is not AI but how design and designers are responding to it. While generative tools make creation faster, cheaper, and more uniform, we’re seeing the most influential designers moving consciously in the opposite direction. Their best work creates meaning, embraces imperfection, and designs for communities. In other words, standout…
For the past two years, the dominant unit of AI work was the prompt. Write a better prompt, get a better answer. Learn the right phrasing, the right examples, the right constraints, the right tone. Prompt engineering became the first folk discipline of the generative AI era because it matched the first experience most people had with these systems: one human, one model, one request, one response. That phase is ending. A recent Business Insider piece describes the rise of “loop engineering”: the practice of designing loops that allow AI agents to keep working, checking, retrying, and coordinating instead of…