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Key Takeaways Earlier this year, high school bass fishing champion Caige Bragg won a $5,000 scholarship, plus a $25,000 boat. Bragg’s winning catch weighed 11 pounds, 3 ounces, putting him ahead of 213 other teams. Youth participation in bass fishing has doubled in a decade, reaching about 12,000 members. Can you fish your way to college? A growing network of competitive bass fishing programs is giving young people an opportunity to earn scholarship money for college. In competitive bass fishing, contestants attempt to catch the heaviest freshwater fish within a set time.  The final round of a prestigious high school…

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Pressure to move fast can lead to costly decisions and unnecessary course corrections. Brief pauses help leaders challenge assumptions and distinguish urgency from importance. Reflection should sharpen decisions, not become an excuse to delay them. How many times over the past year have leaders been told to “move fast or get left behind”?The race to keep up with AI has created a powerful sense of urgency inside many companies. Leaders are being asked to make consequential decisions about technology, talent and investment more quickly than ever.We’re already seeing what can…

Key Takeaways Founderland is designed by founders for founders, as a smaller, curated alternative to massive trade shows. The festival allows founders to make connections, compare notes, and get in front of people they might otherwise spend months trying to reach. Retailers like Walmart use events like Founderland to discover emerging brands early Most business conferences happen under fluorescent lights in anonymous, cavernous convention halls. Founderland is not most conferences. In fact, its founders, Sean Kelly, Shannon Kelly, and Josh Wand, insist it isn’t a conference at all. They prefer to call it a “founder festival.” Set in the rolling…

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways One of the biggest branding advantages of remaining private is the ability to maintain aconsistent long-term story. Public companies rarely communicate with only customers in mind; private companies don’t have that same problem. A company’s ownership structure can influence the way customers, employees and the mediainterpret its actions. Going public can provide enormous benefits, but staying private can offer somethingincreasingly valuable: control over how a company is understood. For decades, becoming a public company represented the ultimate milestone for ambitiousbusinesses. An initial public offering was a strong signal that a…

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways If your business is growing, more employees might seem like the natural solution. But if your business has systemic problems, hiring more people can only strain the systems you have put in place. Growth amplifies preexisting systems. If your system was poorly built, this will only become more evident as you scale. To successfully scale, you must identify bottlenecks through data, ensure every process has a clear owner, make processes repeatable and use technology without losing accountability. Many entrepreneurs respond to growth by hiring more people. They spend more on…

For 25 years, Athletes First has been one of the most dominant players in the sports management game. Founded in 2001, the firm represents some of the NFL’s biggest names, including Ravens RB Derrick Henry and Cowboys QB Dak Prescott, and its President of Team Sports, David Mulugheta, is the top-ranked NFL agent on Forbes’ 2025 Most Powerful Sports Agents list.  Now the company is doing something it’s never done before: launching a full basketball division, adding industry veterans John Noonan and Brandon James to build out an NBA and NIL practice. Mulugheta spoke with Entrepreneur about why this was…

Key Takeaways Grace was working at Nestlé when she and her mother started their MODA side hustle. The co-founders have personally invested about $500,000 to bring their brand to life. MODA’s projected revenue for 2027 is between $3 million and $5 million. This Side Hustle Spotlight Q&A features mother and daughter Sosy and Grace Hachigian, the co-founders of MODA Mocktails. Grace, 26, is based in New York City, where she leads MODA’s East Coast business. Sosy, 57, is based in Orange County, California, where she manages the West Coast. Together, they lead MODA nationally, bringing complementary perspectives and experience to…

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Better AI results come from better prompts, not pricier tools. To extract the greatest value from AI use, you need to provide the model with data about context, audience, examples and a clearly defined task.  Treat AI use as an iterative process. Refine prompts and responses over multiple rounds rather than expecting a perfect answer from one request. AI can accelerate research, writing and routine work, but outputs should be validated by humans — especially when they affect customers or compliance. Imagine this. Two founders sit down with the same…

Key Takeaways Geoffrey Hinton is known as the “Godfather of AI” due to his pioneering work in the field. The Nobel Prize-winning computer scientist wants new AI models to be approved like drugs. Hinton’s call for greater oversight arrives as AI industry insiders raise alarms about the technology they are helping build. Should AI need regulatory approval before you can use it? Geoffrey Hinton, known as the “Godfather of AI” due to his pioneering work in the field, has a new, bold idea: an FDA-style approval system for AI. His suggestion raises the question of who decides which AI is…

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Mindset varies by channel. The same buyer behaves differently depending on where you reach them. Customer interviews can reveal these mindset differences. Use interviews to improve the message, not just the channel. Interviews reveal how buyers describe their problems and which claims they trust or dismiss, which makes for better messaging. Customer acquisition doesn’t end when somebody visits your website. Interviews should uncover what buyers need to see, learn or believe before taking the next step. Marketers spend a lot of time deciding where to find customers. Should we invest…