How to Build a Thriving Business Without Venture Capital

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. After recent conversations with Y Combinator alumni and other promising entrepreneurs, I hear many of them have no plans to raise venture capital — ever. While raising funds is often crucial, bootstrapping is an approach every entrepreneur should consider. Contrary to the “move fast and break things” […]

How to Start a Business, Even When You’re Afraid: Gary Vee

Starting a business can be risky, especially because half of them fail within the first five years. But Gary Vaynerchuk, CEO of VaynerMedia, a global company with over 1,200 employees, says that waiting to begin can be worse than failing. Vaynerchuk is a serial entrepreneur worth over $200 million who recently launched vYve, a four-month, […]

How to Start, Sell a Million-Dollar Company: TaskRabbit Founder

Leah Solivan was an IBM engineer, working on business collaboration tools like Lotus Notes, when she found her million-dollar startup idea: an online marketplace connecting customers with “taskers” who could run errands or do household chores for them at a price. The idea arose from Solivan running out of dog food one night and asking […]

How to Cultivate an Entrepreneurial Mindset

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. The difference between business survival and striving for success often boils down to one factor — your mindset. Whether you’re an aspiring entrepreneur or a seasoned executive, your actions are always inspired by how you look at things. This ultimately affects your results and dictates what you […]

How to Build A Startup, From an Early Lyft, Twitch Investor

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 […]

How To Be Rich By 25, According to a 29-Year-Old Billionaire

Austin Russell is a Stanford University dropout who became the world’s youngest self-made billionaire in 2020 at the age of 25 when his startup Luminar went public. Luminar creates sensing technology to help cars navigate their surroundings; Volvo, Toyota, and Mercedes-Benz use the sensors. Russell, now 29, spoke on the Masters of Scale podcast with […]

How to Start a Business This Weekend: AppSumo CEO Noah Kagan

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 […]

5 Levels of Brand Visibility and How to Make It to the Top in 2024

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. I bet “better brand recognition” is already on your list of New Year resolutions. That’s if you are a crazy-driven entrepreneur with workaholism tendencies and a mission bigger than yourself, like me. And if you are of that kind, you already know any growth journey starts with […]

How to Successfully Launch a Product on Amazon

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. When you think of how to launch a product on Amazon, in my experience as an Amazon consultant, many think of mirroring their listing on their ecommerce website over to Amazon or listing a new product directly on Amazon and then running some ads. Or worse, putting […]

How to Structure and Build a Team For Long-Term Success

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. My dad was a high school basketball coach in the middle of rural Arizona. He rarely had the exact same group of players on a team year after year, so he never had just one system that he relied on. Instead, he learned to accept that he […]