Author: wildgreenquest@gmail.com

If you Google “What was Google’s worst day ever?” the answer is now October 29. Shares of parent company Alphabet plunged, erasing roughly $500 billion in market value, according to The Wall Street Journal. The drop pulled the whole Nasdaq down with it and made investors more worried that companies are spending more on AI than they’re getting back. The cause of the bloodbath? Wednesday’s earnings report. Google Services, the unit that includes search ads, YouTube and subscriptions, brought in $96.3 billion. Wall Street expected $98.5 billion. Search revenue grew 12% year over year in the third quarter, a slowdown…

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Build around a real customer frustration, and make sure your business works and is easy to understand before you polish how it looks. Use constraints to sharpen your priorities, remove confusion from every step of the customer experience and stay focused on the problem you solve so your business can evolve. When people ask how I ended up building a real estate technology company after studying architecture, I usually smile, because the path makes more sense than it sounds. Architecture and entrepreneurship may seem like different worlds. One deals with…

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Moving from founder to chairman means letting go of the “how” and focusing on strategy, capital and accountability. Give your CEO real authority by knowing the line between oversight and interference and don’t hire one until you’re truly ready to let go. As a six-time CEO who has served on 23 corporate boards, I’ve watched the same story unfold in nearly every sector. An ambitious founder builds a business, reaches the point where they want to step back from daily operations, hires a CEO and moves into the chairman role,…

Published October 29, 2026 05:08PMOn October 28, rescuers found the bodies of two missing Colorado Mountain College students in a basin on West Apostle Mountain, a remote peak in the Collegiate Peaks Wilderness, northwest of Buena Vista. Kaden Matsuda, 19, and Jackson Donlon, 20, had planned to climb nearby 13,960-foot Ice Mountain but were reported missing on October 26, according to the Chaffee County Sheriff’s Office. Matsuda and Donlon left Colorado Mountain College’s Leadville campus on October 23, planning to return on October 24 or 25, depending on conditions. Friends told investigators the pair had shared a map identifying Ice…

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Culture is what people repeatedly do, so it has to be translated into mindsets and observable behaviors. “Listen and learn” fails without answers to who decides, who has the burden of proof, and what happens to dissent. Use the separation period to define shared behaviors with both teams, not impose them.u003cbru003e Nuveen just closed its $13.1 billion acquisition of Schroders, the 222-year-old British asset manager. The deal pushes Nuveen into the top 10 global asset managers, with $2.6 trillion under management. The headline is the money. The more interesting part…

Wendy’s might be saying bye-bye to Wall Street. Activist investor Nelson Peltz is leading a group that has offered about $1.4 billion to take Wendy’s private, according to The Wall Street Journal. The $7.35-per-share cash bid is a roughly 20% premium, and shares rose about 15% Wednesday. Joining Peltz’s Trian Fund Management are BlueFive Capital, Sixth Street Partners and franchisee Flynn Group, which operates more than 300 Wendy’s locations worldwide. Trian and related parties own roughly 16% of Wendy’s, and Peltz’s son Bradley sits on the board. This is not Trian’s first attempt. The hedge fund pushed for a sale…

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Match employee demands with scalable solutions. Consider accessible financial education, debt assistance and working with benefits providers that personalize retirement income strategies. Ease rising cost-of-living pressures with annual salary increases and hybrid work arrangements. Identify underused benefits and redirect those funds to more high-impact support. Use flexibility to reclaim the talent advantage — flexible hours, remote work arrangements and dependent care stipends allow employees to better manage caregiving responsibilities. Employees gravitate to small businesses for a variety of reasons, including a more intimate workplace environment, stronger community ties or direct…

Published October 29, 2026 02:08PMTo my right were the Apuan Alps, scarred white from two thousand years of marble mining. To my left, a few miles off, the sea. And directly beneath me: asphalt, a narrow shoulder, and the persistent attentiveness of not getting clipped by Fiat Pandas and silent electric Citroëns. I was walking a stretch of the Via Francigena, the medieval pilgrim route that runs from Canterbury to Rome, from Camaiore to Sarzana. It’s, how do you say, gritty Tuscany. This is not the Tuscany of postcards. In Carrara I got the industry of marble instead: giant cubes…

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Ranking the order history first beats brainstorming, because real purchases reveal demand that meetings can’t. Cap your own judgment calls in advance, or the result drifts back toward your taste. Most product ideas start in a meeting. Someone has a hunch, the team falls in love with it and the customer gets a vote only after the money is spent. That sequence is expensive. When CB Insights studied 431 venture-backed startups that have shut down since 2023, poor product-market fit was cited in 43% of failures it could trace. Plenty of…

Getting up from a low armchair often takes two attempts and a push from both hands, and the first few steps afterwards can feel unsteady. That small hesitation is one of the earliest signs that balance and leg strength are starting to fade. The good news is that both respond well to the right training, at any age.I’ve coached adults for more than 15 years, and much of my work now is with clients aged 60 to 85 and over, in their own homes across Sevenoaks. The aim is simple. You should be able to move through your house, your…