Shaida Ghaemi was last seen Sept. 9, 2007, in Wheat Ridge. (Photo courtesy Colorado Bureau of Investigation) Arash Ghaemi has wondered for 18 years what happened to his…
Read more How a missing Colorado woman’s son hopes AI can solve her 18-year-old cold caseEvery founder feels pressure to reinvent, to launch something new, move faster, or chase the next big idea. But in my experience building Piece of Cake Moving, the most…
Read more Why Reliability Is the Real Growth StrategyHe wasn’t arrogant. He was calm. Confident, even. The numbers were solid. The products were respected. Customers seemed loyal. From the inside, everything felt fine, and that was the problem.…
Read more A CEO Once Told Me His Company Was Stable. Turns Out, He Was WrongChoosing the right first sales channel can shape everything that follows for a small business. Many founders get stuck debating whether to start online, in retail, or selling…
Read more 3 Ways Founders Can Choose the Right Sales Channel, According to a CEOThis article was written by Jim Mitte, an Entrepreneurs’ Organization member in Detroit. Mitte is also the founder and CEO of Turtlehut, which provides internet marketing solutions that focus on empowering…
Read more Why Mastering Alignment in Marketing Is The Key to Scaling SmarterSteve Jobs and Jeff Bezos talked, so people listened. Customers don’t care about “speeds and feeds,” Jobs would remind his teams at Apple. “People don’t just want to buy computers. They want to know what they…
Read more The Communication Rule Steve Jobs and Jeff Bezos Always Followed—and Most People IgnoreCentral Florida shoppers kicked off Small Business Saturday with the sights, sounds and smells of the Winter Park Farmers’ Market.It’s where local vendors say the day offers a…
Read more Small Business Saturday brings crowds and community spiritIn 2010, I quit my job to take a year-long solo backpacking trip through South America and Asia. Mongolia was not on my original itinerary, and entrepreneurship was…
Read more 5 Entrepreneurship Lessons From Milking Yaks in MongoliaFranchising is booming. The International Franchise Association estimates that the industry will hit nearly $1 trillion in total output this year. And you aren’t imagining that there seems to be a Jersey Mike’s, an…
Read more Before You Buy a Franchise, Crunch These NumbersThe modern workplace runs on a dangerous myth: that constant motion equals maximum productivity. We’ve built entire corporate cultures around this fallacy, glorifying the “always on” mentality while our…
Read more How to transform burnout to breakthroughA tax on tea once sparked rebellion. This time, it’s just causing headaches. Importers of the prized leaves have watched costs climb, orders stall and margins shrink under…
Read more Tea Tariffs Once Sparked a Revolution. Now They Are Creating AngstIt’s hard not to notice when a toxic coworker comes barreling through the office door. However, that’s the least frequent part of a workplace dynamic. Bad boss behavior…
Read more 9 Common Behaviors of Bad Bosses, According to the Harris PollIs it time for you to find a heroic mission? Do you want to create and lead a business worth fighting for—one that’s built to last? I’m for…
Read more If You Want a Business That’s Built to Last, Start With Your ‘Why’This article was written by Jennifer Barnes, an Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) member in San Diego who is the CEO and Founder of Optima Office, which provides part-time controllers, CFOs, bookkeeping,…
Read more Why Entrepreneurs Must Master These 5 Financial Basics or Struggle to SucceedElection Day 2025 was a sweeping victory for Democrats, with major wins in two gubernatorial races and the New York City mayoral contest, along with California voters approving…
Read more 5 Takeaways for Business Owners from Tuesday’s Blue Wave Election ResultsMost entrepreneurs are familiar with diminishing returns: how, when other variables stay constant, at some point putting in additional time and effort results in increasingly smaller results. Since resources are always limited,…
Read more How Fit Are You? 3 Simple Tests to Evaluate Your Strength, Endurance, and Cardiovascular FitnessArtificial intelligence is already redefining the workplace. That was driven home this week by Amazon and Chegg, which both announced substantial layoffs. Amazon plans to cut 14,000 jobs…
Read more This 1 Skill Is the Most Important for the AI Era, Say Leaders From LinkedIn, Meta, and BoxThe smartest financial move I ever made was to stop contributing to retirement savings. It may sound counterintuitive, even reckless. Dave Ramsey would have stress dreams about this…
Read more Why I Don’t Save for Retirement (and Neither Should You)About a quarter of all businesses in the U.S. are family businesses—but that doesn’t mean working with family members is easy. “A lot of people aren’t built for it,” said Allison Ellsworth, chief brand…
Read more How to Run a Family Business Without Driving One Another CrazyIf you’re a leader, I’ll bet you spend a lot of time motivating others—employees, customers, investors, and other stakeholders. Sometimes it’s important to remember that the person who…
Read more 7 Powerful Habits That Will Help Leaders Motivate Themselves