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Disclosure: Our goal is to feature products and services that we think you’ll find interesting and useful. If you purchase them, Entrepreneur may get a small share of the revenue from the sale from our commerce partners. For entrepreneurs, freelancers, and professionals who are running lean operations, having dependable tech is an essential part of the game. But that doesn’t mean every piece of hardware needs to cost four figures.Sometimes, what you really need is a reliable backup laptop that can keep your workflow moving if your main device is tied up, charging, or unexpectedly out of commission.This Grade A/B…

Disclosure: Our goal is to feature products and services that we think you’ll find interesting and useful. If you purchase them, Entrepreneur may get a small share of the revenue from the sale from our commerce partners. Running a business from a Mac is incredibly common today—especially among entrepreneurs, freelancers, designers, and developers who rely on Apple’s ecosystem to power their daily workflow. But even the most polished operating systems leave useful tools buried deep inside.To help you uncover yours, you can get a MacMagic Lifetime Upgrades License for just $25.50 (MSRP: $99.99) through March 29 when you use the…

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Startup success hinges on strategic burn rate management, not high valuations and growth rates alone. Founders must balance growth and discipline with purposeful spending and revenue generation from early stages. Sustainable scaling and careful financial execution ensure longevity over aggressive, unchecked expansion. In the world of high-stakes investing and fast-moving startups, there’s one metric I consistently return to: burn rate.Not because it’s dramatic, but because it’s revealing. Burn rate does more than show how quickly cash is being spent. It offers a clear window into how a company thinks, prioritizes…

To maintain sales in this softer housing market environment, Lennar spent an average of 14% of the final sales price on incentives in Q1 2026—back to its 2010 levels. Put another way, a $450,000 home sold with a 14% incentive rate translates to $63,000 spent on buyer incentives. That’s a lot of incentives. Ever since the pandemic housing boom fizzled out, homebuilders like Lennar have compressed their gross margins—which hit all-time highs during that boom—in order to deploy bigger incentives to entice homebuyers. Indeed, at the height of the pandemic housing boom in Q2 2022, Lennar’s incentives rate was just 1.5%.Giant homebuilders…

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Creating emotional experiences draws people to your booth far more effectively than traditional giveaways or promotions. In an AI-driven marketing world, authentic human moments help brands stand out and build stronger connections. Every year at major franchise conferences, the same conversation eventually happens among exhibitors.Someone mentions how slow their booth traffic felt, another questions whether their booth location hurt them, and a third starts wondering whether trade shows are still worth the investment. And eventually someone says it.“We just didn’t get enough people to our booth.” Whenever I hear that…

Fire officials and pro-density urbanists are often at loggerheads. This is especially evident in notoriously car-centric Los Angeles, where a firefighters’ union spent six figures opposing active mobility measures. The two camps can have different ideas of acceptable risks and priorities.But Matthew Flaherty, a firefighter who has lived in L.A. his whole life, bridges the two worlds. He’s an advocate for affordable, transit-friendly housing. His struggle to find an apartment in a walkable neighborhood led him to become a member of the Livable Communities Initiative, a nonprofit group advocating for more walkable neighborhoods in L.A.“Cities shouldn’t be designed around the fire…

This article is republished with permission from Wonder Tools, a newsletter that helps you discover the most useful sites and apps. Google’s AI, Gemini, has quickly become one of the AI tools I rely on most. It builds dashboards and creates remarkable infographics. It spins out comprehensive research reports in minutes that would once have taken days to assemble. It’s improving every month. On March 13, Google announced Ask Maps, so you can query Gemini about things like “Which nearby tennis courts are open with lights so I can play tonight?” On March 10, Gemini added new integrations to build, summarize, and analyze your Google…

During the pandemic housing boom, housing demand was running so hot—and homes sold so quickly—that listings barely even registered as active inventory. Indeed, in February 2022, there were only 346,511 active homes for sale, according to Realtor.com’s data series. That was a staggering 68.5% below the 1,102,660 active listings in February 2019.At the end of February 2022, not a single one of America’s 200 largest housing markets had more inventory than in pre-pandemic February 2019.Fast-forward to the end of February 2026, and there were 914,860 active homes for sale—and now 66 of the nation’s 200 largest housing markets have more…

Published March 22, 2026 03:32AMEvery runner has a coach these days. In fact, it sometimes seems that every runner is a coach. You can even sign up for private guidance from recent Olympic marathoners like Dakotah Popehn and Malindi Elmore. The rise of online coaching has democratized the availability of personalized advice from expert mentors, not just in running but across endurance sports and even in other areas of life like business and entrepreneurship.But does it help? Even at the elite level, some runners thrive under the long-term guidance of a coach, others seem to bounce unhappily from coach to…

It’s a familiar feeling: You start a text message, and your phone’s auto-complete function suggests several choices for the next word, ranging from banal to hilarious. “I love …” you, or coffee? Or you’re finishing an email, and merely typing the word “Let” prompts your app to suggest “Let me know if you have any questions” in light gray text.Predictive language technologies have become so routine—baked into smartphones, email services, and chatbots—that we barely notice them anymore. But they raise a difficult question: What happens to a writer’s unique voice when AI routinely completes their thoughts—or generates them altogether from…