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Building a Business

I Started My Business In My Mom’s Basement at the Age of 17. Here are 5 Rules I Wish I Had Known, But Had to Learn the Hard Way

There is no easy way to break this to you, but you are the least important person in your business!

By Jon B. Becker

Thought Leaders

I Pitched 300 People a Day For 1 Year — and Learned This Impactful Entrepreneurial Lesson

By Jonathan Brierre

Building a Business

The 3 Greatest Lessons I’ve Learned After 25 Years in Business and $100 Million in Revenue

By Joy Gendusa

Thought Leaders

3 Important Lessons I’ve Learned Working With the Top 1% of Business Leaders

By Tara Coomans

Thought Leaders

5 Lessons I Learned While Serving in the Army That Actually Translate to Corporate Life

Since serving in Afghanistan, I've had time to reflect on what I learned about leadership during my eight years in the infantry. Many battlefield lessons are irrelevant or counterproductive to business, but here are a few that have proved invaluable.

By Craig Mullaney

Building a Business

At 13, I Started a Company of Kids Showing Grandparents How to Use Computers. The Matching Shirts We Wore Taught Me An Important Lesson.

The shirts were the first customer-focused system I ever built.

By John Winner

Building a Business

From Idea to Successful Exit — 8 Lessons Learned From Building and Selling a Startup

Here are a few valuable lessons all entrepreneurs can apply as they build (and eventually exit) their startups.

By Chris Kille

Thought Leaders

3 Key Lessons Business Founders Can Learn From Our Founding Fathers This Independence Day

A great founder's story is about the people, the risks they took and their reasons. Just ask our founding fathers.

By Gene Marks

Thought Leaders

I Failed as a Stand-up Comic. Here’s How It Made Me a Better Entrepreneur.

Here's what I learned from a failed career in stand-up comedy.

By Justin Vandehey

Thought Leaders

How Dairy Farming Made Me a Better Tech Entrepreneur

Here's how working on a dairy farm contributed to my success as a technology entrepreneur.

By Justin Vandehey

Thought Leaders

21 Lessons I Swear By After 21 Years as an Entrepreneur

Fast-track your business success with these strategies.

By Adrian Falk

Thought Leaders

What Entrepreneurs Can Learn From Baseball Players

Entrepreneurs and baseball players have more in common than you may realize. Here are a few lessons business leaders can learn from ball players.

By Michael Stagno

Thought Leaders

6 Ways Fishing Reinforces Key Business Mentalities and Life Lessons

Here are six key lessons fishing has taught me both in business and in life.

By Mary Elkordy

Thought Leaders

I Ran a Marathon Without Training. Here’s What I Learned and How It Made Me a Better Entrepreneur.

Here are three key lessons that running a marathon without training taught me about successful entrepreneurship.

By Justin Vandehey

Thought Leaders

You Don’t Need to Sacrifice Your Family to Pursue Being an Entrepreneur. Here’s How to Save Yourself 500 Hours Per Year.

Here's some advice for dadpreneurs on how to be a great dad while building an amazing business.

By Derek Notman

Thought Leaders

5 Leadership Lessons We Could All Learn From My Parenthood Journey

Being a parent and an entrepreneur simultaneously is challenging, but full of pure joy. These are a few lessons learned from parenthood that can be useful for any entrepreneur.

By Adam Karnama

Building a Business

When My Cofounder Died, It Showed Me How to Run My Company

He left me the book 'Life Is Short,' and its lessons became a guiding principle for everything I do.

By Tracy Young

Building a Business

4 F1 Racing Lessons That Can Accelerate Your Career

For F1 drivers like Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen, these racing lessons are second nature, but they don't just apply to the tracks — they can also help to position you as a leader and accelerate your success as an entrepreneur.

By Beth Newton

Buying a Franchise

She Protected the President’s Life Before She Opened a Fitness Center. Here’s How She Deals With Imposter Syndrome.

She Coleman owns a location of The Camp Transformation Center, and her journey through multiple male-dominated industries has taught her a lot about strength.

By Madeline Garfinkle

Building a Business

7 Lessons from Basketball for Slam-Dunk Success in Business

I've learned a lot from playing and coaching basketball and believe a lot of my business success has come from what I've learned on the court. Here are seven winning strategies I've brought to my business game.

By Ray Titus

Thought Leaders

A Billionaire Stiffed Me $30K — Here’s What I Learned from the Experience

Here are three key lessons I learned after a billionaire stiffed me out of $30,000.

By AJ Kumar

Entrepreneurs

8 Life Lessons I Wish I’d Known Sooner

If you're feeling angry, disappointed, frustrated or powerless in any area of your life, I promise that these eight life lessons I've learned will change everything for you.

By Amy M Chambers

Thought Leaders

This Ukrainian CEO Reveals What it Takes to Sustain a High-Performing Hybrid Team (Even During a War).

These lessons from a successful Ukrainian company amidst the war can help everyone guide their team — even through a crisis

By Victoria Repa

Side Hustle

I Spent the Last 3 Years Building My Side Hustle Into a Full-Time Business. Here’s What I Learned.

After spending the last few years growing my side job into a successful full-time business, these are the lessons my journey taught me that I wish I could tell my younger self.

By Jim Campbell

Thought Leaders

I’ve Been a Tech Entrepreneur for Over 20 Years — Here Are 5 Key Lessons I’ve Learned Along the Way

Here are five objectives that have proven useful during my twenty years as a tech entrepreneur.

By Andrew Newman

Building a Business

5 Lessons I Learned From Children That Helped Me Create an Apple Award-Winning Business

Here are five unique skills I learned from children that helped me build an app with millions of users, get a ton of media attention and earn international awards.

By Ashot Gabrelyanov

Thought Leaders

5 Important Lessons I Learned Working at a Temporary Business

You need to know how to plan and how to prepare to pivot to be a successful business owner — and working at a temporary business taught me a lot about why. Here's what we all could learn from my experience.

By Laquisha Milner

Thought Leaders

3 Lessons Entrepreneurs Can Learn From The Rise and Fall of History’s Biggest Companies

Big companies often grow complacent and fail to innovate, creating opportunities for smaller competitors to enter the market.

By John Landry

Building a Business

If Your Leadership Style Is Ever Judged By Others, Here’s 8 Things You Should Do

How to short-circuit defensiveness and resentment and instead accept and apply tough input for the betterment of your company, and yourself.

By Joanna Nurmi

Thought Leaders

7 Lessons from a Kidnapping Survival Course That All Entrepreneurs Must Know

We all experience extreme stress at one point in our lives. Learn how kidnapping survival skills can help you manage stress and create a top-level mindset in your everyday life.

By Chris Reynolds