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Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Investors aren’t evaluating how polished your pitch is — they’re testing whether your business can survive the structural realities of taking their money. From cap tables to burn rate to governance, the founders who close rounds are the ones who’ve pressure-tested the fundamentals long before they walk into the room. The first time I fundraised, I assumed my success hinged on the persuasiveness of my pitch. I refined the deck, rehearsed the narrative and memorized every metric. My belief was simple: if I could communicate the vision clearly enough, the…

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Real estate is one of the world’s largest asset classes, yet the information behind those assets has remained fragmented for decades. Everybody knows the worth of a house, a building or land. But the information contained in those assets remains inaccessible, difficult to clean, and challenging to use.  Over the years, property data has been distributed across thousands of counties, jurisdictions, MLS systems and private sources. They are all different in format, rules and limitations. For large businesses, it creates delays. For startups and developers, it can create major barriers to building…

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Cost efficiency isn’t the same as operational health — a lean team hitting its numbers on unsustainable hours is a burnout risk, not a business model. Escape the paradox with two investments: the right tech to automate repetitive work, and the right hires to free your team for higher-value tasks. Rapid growth is the goal for just about every entrepreneur, but seeing your revenue go up is only half of the picture. While it’s essential that you keep your finances healthy, many businesses struggle during this phase because of what…

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways: Discover why OpenAI’s brand-new ChatGPT Work is the first tool that has me considering unsubscribing from Claude and Gemini for good. Watch seven full jobs get handed off live, from a content dashboard to a complete 90-day marketing campaign that used to carry a five-figure agency fee. Screenshot the exact one-shot prompts that end the “make it less generic” loop, plus the four tasks you should never let AI finish alone. OpenAI just launched ChatGPT Work, and it quietly changes the math on every other AI subscription you pay for.…

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways The old “raise big, hire fast” playbook is dead: non-engineers can now run engineering functions with AI, cutting the need for early outside capital. Hire for EQ and range, build B2B products with high switching costs, and treat profitability — not scale — as the north-star metric. AI has disrupted the business landscape almost overnight. According to Stanford’s 2025 AI Index Report, AI adoption by organizations grew from 55% in 2023 to 78% by late 2024 — a 23% jump in a single year. And it isn’t just penetration that’s…

Key Takeaways More than six in 10 Americans say they would prefer to be their own boss. The average entrepreneur makes roughly $77,000 a year. OnDeck’s new analysis reveals the most in-demand local businesses. If you’ve ever wanted to start a business, you’re in good company.  Sixty-two percent of Americans say they would prefer to be their own boss, according to a recent Shopify-Gallup entrepreneurship study.  The average entrepreneur makes approximately $77,000 per year, a slight increase over the median employee salary of roughly $70,000, Investopedia reported.  Of course, becoming a successful entrepreneur who turns a profit hinges on having…

Key Takeaways Hudick began to explore her passion for design at a jewelry-making class in 2006. She honed her craft over the years, and friends suggested she start to sell her pieces. Now retired as an engineer, she’s focusing on the business and teaching workshops. In 2024, Anna Hudick, then 58 years old, retired from a decades-long engineering career to go all-in on her hobby turned business: handmade jewelry line Inside My Locket.  Hudick, who lives in Harrisonburg, Virginia, always had a creative side, but when she was a young adult considering careers, having a comfortable income was top of…

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways AI is consuming more power than most businesses realize. A standard enterprise server rack draws roughly 5-10 kilowatts. An AI-optimized rack running GPU clusters can pull 40-100 kilowatts or more. Energy costs flow downstream, and so do supply chain constraints. For any business that relies on cloud-hosted AI services, these bottlenecks translate directly into pricing pressure and reliability risk. Businesses that understand this full picture, digital and physical together, will make sharper investment decisions, carry less unmanaged risk and build infrastructure that scales without breaking. The numbers coming out of…

Key Takeaways Jamie Dimon is the CEO of JPMorgan Chase, the largest bank in the U.S. by assets. Dimon recently urged people to stop worrying about AI’s impact on jobs. He said AI has “created a lot of jobs” at JPMorgan and “reduced jobs” in other areas “a little bit.” JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon, who leads the largest bank in the U.S. with assets of $3.9 trillion, said this week that leaders are uncertain about how AI will impact the workforce — but he is optimistic about technology creating new jobs.   JPMorgan could soon become the world’s first $1 trillion…

Published July 17, 2026 03:53PMOn June 2, a house cat named Fridge snuck out of her owners’ tent at a campground near Colorado’s Great Sand Dunes National Park and vanished into the desert.The three-year-old cat ended up surviving 39 days alone in the backcountry, enduring high temperatures, and lack of food and water, and the presence of predators. Fridge’s survival  astonished her owners and raised questions about how an indoor cat managed to stay alive for nearly six weeks in Colorado’s backcountry “There’s no way that this tiny little cat survived this long with no food, no water,” her owner,…