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A bunch of TikTokers are getting paid thousands of dollars a month to make ads that don’t look like ads at all. The videos look like regular UGC (user-generated content), but they’re actually a stealth way creators can promote a brand, according to The Wall Street Journal. One creator, Ceci Beck, was paid more than $800 to run an account showing her getting dumped over and over, always using the same voice-dictation app. She says she now averages $6,000 a month doing this kind of work. The posts rarely disclose that they’re ads, even though that violates the rules on…

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Mental health support alone cannot build a future-ready workforce. AI adoption depends as much on human capacity as technology. Stronger managers create more resilient organizations. For years, employers have expanded how they think about workplace mental health. Employee assistance programs. Mental health days. Counseling benefits. Wellness initiatives. Burnout prevention. That progress matters. But there is a larger question entrepreneurs and business leaders should be asking: What if supporting mental health is necessary, but insufficient for building a workforce capable of thriving in the future? Employees aren’t only dealing with mental…

Published September 21, 2026 04:57AMHow we tested the Salomon Aero Blaze 4 GRVL Shoes for this review: Writer and tester Dean Stattmann put the Aero Blaze 4 GRVL through a 14K gravel race in the Swiss Alps and a week-long, 22K slog through the Scottish Highlands, testing the shoe across pavement, gravel, mud, and technical trail before writing this review.(Photo: Dean Stattmann) Salomon Aero Blaze 4 GRVL Weight: 8.74 ozStack height: 35–27 mmDrop: 8 mm I’ve recently become obsessed with gravel shoes—a category of running shoe that, if I’m being honest, I always thought was kind of pointless, neither here…

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Implementing a new AI tool every time you make a slight update can actually yield a worse result, because after all the work that goes into the new model, the customer may not even see an improvement on their end. A technically better model does not automatically make it a better business decision. Founders often assume that every improvement in AI model accuracy deserves a production release. But when testing, deployment, monitoring and engineering labor are factored in, deploying a slightly better model can actually produce a worse business outcome.…

Published September 20, 2026 11:43AMI often feel like my legs are screwed on wrong. Any time I hike, especially with heavy weight, I get aches and pains in my right hip and ankle—but never in my left. I’ve tried almost everything to fix my crooked body: single-leg exercises, physical therapy, foam-rolling, and massage. I even had a somewhat new-age doctor hammer my hips back into place with a mallet. My friends call her the Bone Carpenter.Then a physical therapist suggested I do something far less medieval: Get a gait analysis. Maybe strength wasn’t my issue, they suggested. Maybe it was…

Fat Bear Week begins on September 22 and runs through the 29th. As always, there are worthy contenders. Take our quiz to see which bear your personality resembles. Brooks River, Katmai Nationl Park, Alaska, September 2022 (Photo: Getty/Claus Cramer)Published September 20, 2026 03:04AMIt’s the time of year again, when fat bear lovers across the globe cast their vote see which bruin at Katmai National Park in Alaska will emerge supreme as the plumpest and most likely to survive the winter.The annual affair, put on by the National Park Service, observes some of the largest brown bears on Earth that made…

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways AI is changing the founder’s role from creating the work to exercising judgment over it. As execution becomes easier to automate, accountability, trust and discernment become even more valuable leadership skills. Women founders have an opportunity to avoid becoming the “AI manager” by building systems that preserve leadership capacity instead of consuming it. Artificial intelligence was supposed to make entrepreneurship easier. It drafts proposals, writes marketing copy, summarizes meetings, analyzes data and automates tasks that once consumed hours of a founder’s day. Nearly every week, another tool promises to save…

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways A fintech founder shares the five numbers that reveal whether your business can withstand pressure — and how to read each one before it’s too late. In 2022, I remember looking at the dashboard for our savings and investment app and realizing it wasn’t helping me make decisions anymore.On paper, things still looked good. We had user growth, strong top-line numbers and the kind of metrics that usually signal momentum. But at the same time, investor conversations were changing. Fundraising timelines were getting longer. The questions we were being asked…

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Under pressure, the brain defaults to automatic habits, so leaders fail not from lack of discipline but from environments that don’t support deliberate thinking. Sustainable behavior change comes from redesigning the environment around decisions — protected time, decision frameworks, fewer inputs — rather than relying on willpower. It is a familiar scene, whether you are standing in an operating room, a boardroom or a late-night war room before a major launch. The people involved are capable, experienced and fully aware of what success requires. Yet under pressure, something slips. A…