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Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways For years, local businesses relied on a predictable formula: polished promotional photos, stock graphics and a directive to buy. But feed-fatigued consumers have built total immunity to traditional advertising. When every local post looks like an ad, audiences scroll past instantly. Today’s digital consumers ignore corporate polish in favor of authenticity, behind-the-scenes access, human personality and immediate value — rendering the old “broadcast and call-to-action” playbook entirely obsolete. Local businesses treated social media exactly the same for the past decade. An auto dealership, a local health clinic and even a…

Key Takeaways Lance Trenary has worked at Golden Corral, the all-you-can-eat buffet chain, for 41 years, stepping into the CEO role in 2015. He said it’s important to have a personal relationship with everyone working at the restaurants, from franchisees to employees, for helpful feedback. Trenary added that “staying close to the customer” is a “critically important” habit he will “never break.” Golden Corral’s president and CEO, Lance Trenary, has been working at the buffet chain in some capacity for over four decades. The executive held positions like senior vice president of company operations before becoming CEO in 2015.  Trenary…

Published September 29, 2026 03:27PMOutside contributor Ben Ayers spoke with officials in Nepal about the deadly avalanche on Himlung Himal, and the search for survivors and bodies in the aftermath. Ayers has lived in Nepal for more than 20 years and oversees Outside‘s coverage of Mount Everest.  There’s been another deadly avalanche on a Himalayan peak in Nepal, and the most recent disaster has killed multiple workers within the country’s mountaineering industry. On September 26, an avalanche hit the Base Camp at 23,379-foot Himlung Himal near Nepal’s Annapurna region. The slide enveloped sleeping tents and communal areas, burying them under multiple…

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Balance experimentation with the reliability of your core offering, and establish a strong patenting system early on. Build for compliance and perform know-your-customer checks from the get-go, and push the whole industry toward self-regulation. Understand that fiscal discipline beats early funding. Being fiscally responsible allows you to raise funds only when you can do so on your own terms. A few months ago, Oxylabs landed a $130 million investment from Warburg Pincus, pushing our valuation to $3.6 billion — the highest ever recorded in the public web data sector, and…

Published September 29, 2026 01:44PMWhat to Know: Early snow, icy trails, and vanishing daylight make autumn one of the trickiest times in the backcountry. After four tragic hiker deaths in Washington in a single week, search and rescue volunteers share how to navigate fall’s hidden hazards. Neil Gehring, 26, went missing during an overnight backpacking trip in Olympic National Park. He set out on August 31 for a two-day traverse from Boulder Lake to Appleton Pass, starting and ending at the Madison Falls Trailhead. He would never return home. Gehring was found dead on September 13 on the northwest slope…

Key Takeaways After graduating with her MBA, Singhvi wanted to tap into a $750 billion business opportunity. She co-founded Unvault, which allows users to track the value of their jewelry and sell it, in 2025. Now, she looks forward to listening to her customers and introducing more in-demand features. In India’s gemstone hub Jaipur, where Nidhi Singhvi grew up, gold jewelry is a family heirloom passed through generations, and it’s always considered when calculating someone’s net worth, she tells Entrepreneur.  Image Credit: Courtesy of Unvault. Co-founders Nidhi Singhvi, left, and Navya Reddy, right. However, when Singhvi moved to the U.S.…

Published September 29, 2026 01:47PMYou may have seen a social media post or two celebrating an American cyclist named Brandon McNulty and his wild ride on September 27 to win the road cycling world championships in Montreal, Canada. McNulty won the elite men’s road race in dramatic, edge-of-your-seat fashion. He broke away from the pack with 19 miles remaining in the 170-mile race, and then somehow held off multiple attempts from the other cyclists to chase him down. The race’s final brutal miles delivered the agonizing will-he-or-won’t-he dynamic akin to a goal-line stand in the Super Bowl. On more than…

Burger King is learning that not every customer enjoys chatting with AI about their Whopper. The chain has tested AI voice ordering in drive-thrus for several years with partners including Google. Now it’s rethinking the approach, according to Restaurant Business. Chakri Somisetti, Burger King’s VP of brand technologies, told the FSTEC conference last week that forcing AI on customers backfired. “There are drive offs because guests don’t want to talk to a bot,” he said. Technomic research backs up the hesitation. Only 23% of consumers find AI drive-thru ordering appetizing, while 46% find it a turnoff. The test continues in…

No sooner did Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang tell the world to stop worrying about a real-life Skynet than his company rolled out software they say will keep AI agents from going rogue. On Monday, Nvidia launched its Open Agent Safety Platform, a set of tools that lets developers limit what AI agents can access and do, CNBC reported. The release follows incidents at OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta and Google in which AI models escaped their test environments. The most notorious came in July, when OpenAI agents broke out of their sandbox and hacked Hugging Face, the open-model platform Nvidia has agreed…

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Letting go of the work you’re good at is often the price of growing into the role your company actually needs you to play. The Visionary–Integrator relationship works when both sides say “tell me more” instead of treating every idea or objection like a personal attack. You don’t scale by winning the org-chart box; you scale by building enough trust with the person in the other seat to walk out as one voice. My business was about 100 locations in when our EOS Implementer walked into a quarterly session, put…