Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. As a diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) consultant, I can tell you systemic racism, sexism, and a laundry list of other institutional factors do impact the success of entrepreneurs of color. However, sometimes, the problems we face when reaching for success do not come from the outside […]
What if you invested in Nvidia 30 years ago, before it went public, and held on? Venture capitalist Mark Stevens is currently one of Nvidia’s top individual shareholders, second only to CEO Jensen Huang. He invested in the AI chipmaker in 1993 as a new partner at Sequoia Capital. Stevens has been on Nvidia’s board
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Even though there’s a .00006% chance that a startup will reach a $1 billion valuation, Silicon Valley investor Mike Maples Jr. has placed early bets on more than one startup that beat the odds. Across his nearly two-decade investing career, Maples found that startups he invested in early that are now worth over a billion
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Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Kicking off hours after an assassination attempt on a presidential candidate, the Republican National Convention took on heightened significance this year. In my role as President and CEO of the International Franchise Association (IFA), I traveled to Milwaukee for a policy roundtable entitled “Franchising, the American Dream,”
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Many banks, media outlets, and airlines experienced the blue screen of death this morning when they turned on their Microsoft Windows machines. The dreaded error page, with the message “Your device ran into a problem and needs to restart” was caused by a single update from Austin, Texas-based CrowdStrike, a cybersecurity giant with operations in
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People reports that Chiefs star Travis Kelce just attended his 13th performance of Taylor Swift’s The Eras Tour, and the significance of that number is lost on no one. Swift is a big fan of the number 13 — so much so that before every show she paints a 13 on her hand for good
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Companies (and cities) are cracking down on return-to-office policies, and Amazon is joining the club. The tech giant has reportedly begun cracking down on “coffee badging,” (a term for hybrid employees who come to the office, grab a coffee, chat up some coworkers, and then leave), by tracking the number of hours they are in
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This Side Hustle Spotlight Q&A features Victoria Carroll, a U.S.-based professional voice actor who created a full-time career with the freelance service platform Fiverr. Image Credit: Courtesy of Fiverr. Victoria Carroll. What was your day job (or other sources of income) when you started your side hustle?I was living abroad in the Czech Republic and
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Since starting the first Prime Day in 2015, Amazon has seen the 48-hour event become a massive revenue generator. New estimates project that this year’s Prime Day on July 16 and 17 may be Amazon’s biggest yet, surpassing last year’s $12.7 billion in sales. Adobe Analytics, the e-commerce research arm of Adobe used by over
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Noah Kagan shared how he started AppSumo, a “Groupon for software,” in one weekend in a new podcast episode. The startup cost was $60; AppSumo earned $80 million last year and Kagan is still its CEO. In 2010, Kagan was 28 years old and had already experienced what it was like to be the 30th
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