In 1995, a graphic design teacher named Lynda Weinman just wanted a digital sandbox. She needed a place online where her students could upload their work and play…
Read more What Risks Do Entrepreneurs Create When They Turn Personal Expertise into a Paid Service?Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways When companies are pushed toward premature exits or forced to remain private far longer than makes sense, the…
Read more Are Your Prices Really Fair? There’s a Simple Formula to Find OutOpinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Moonlighting isn’t inherently ethical or unethical, and there is no universal answer here. The ethics come down to…
Read more Can You Ethically Moonlight In Tech? Yes — Here’s How to Hold Down Multiple Jobs.If you’re over 50, you have something no younger developer can buy, simulate, or catch up on: you were born before mobile phones, before computers were in homes,…
Read more Vibe Coding for People Over 50 – Dragos RouaAt the start of February 2026 I had one iOS app live in the App Store. As I write this at the end of May, I have ten,…
Read more Vibe Coding for Senior Developers: 6 Lessons | Dragos RouaSam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, recently said we are 1–2 years away from the first one-person unicorn — a $1,000,000,000 valuation company run by a single person.…
Read more One-Person Unicorn: A Week With AIGernon | Dragos RouaIn hindsight, it was inevitable. But let’s take it slowly. A few months ago, I published a mega-prompt teaching Claude the Assess-Decide-Do framework. It was an experiment, but,…
Read more AIGernon: An Always-On AI Assistant Powered by Assess-Decide-DoFor many immigrants, the idea of launching a business is part of the dream of independence and success. After all, the entrepreneurial drive runs deep—in a recent TD survey,…
Read more Want to start a business? Work on your personal finances first – MoneySenseA small investment made at the right moment has the power to launch ordinary people to millionaire status. All it took was $1,000 and an out-there idea for…
Read more Meet the self-made billionaire who bought a nearly bankrupt company off Warren Buffett for $1,000 and turned it into a $98 billion giant | Fortune5 years ago I started to learn Korean. All by myself while still living in Portugal and having a full time job. The reason: I was really, really…
Read more How To Win a Hackathon in South Korea – Dragos RouaThe fiery debate about a proposed ballot measure to tax California’s billionaires has sparked some soul-searching across the state. While the idea of a one-time tax on more…
Read more Billionaire tax proposal sparks soul-searching for CaliforniansHAVERHILL — Adolfo Gonzalez Mateo is juggling a multistate painting business, classes at UMass Lowell, publishing his first book, and the development of an AI-powered software to assist…
Read more Entrepreneur, 20, aims to use AI to ease immigrants’ transitionEntrepreneurs love new ideas and new strategies. The moment something stops working, many founders assume the solution is to overhaul the system, add more technology, or reinvent their…
Read more The Secret to Scaling Sales is SimplicityThe journey through life rarely mirrors the blueprint or vision we develop as kids. Growing up, I was given the same instructions as most people: Go to school,…
Read more The Unwritten Path That Built My ResilienceIn Brief: Long Island entrepreneurs are using shared workspaces to reduce overhead and stay flexible. Co-working spaces like Moss Wellness help service-based businesses avoid long-term leases. Shared retail…
Read more How Long Island small businesses are rethinking storefronts | Long Island Business NewsThere are two kinds of people when it comes to AI. The first group treats it like a magic wand, something that will make them rich beyond their…
Read more Can You Really Amplify Yourself With AI? – Dragos RouaLet’s get one thing out of the way: Marketing can be overwhelming. Especially when you’re staring at a blank screen, five browser tabs deep into conflicting advice, and…
Read more How to Start Marketing When You Don’t Know Where to StartWhat is the difference between a founder and a CEO? Is it tenure? Skill? Is it about proximity to an exit? At October’s Inc. 5000 Conference, I had the pleasure of meeting Allison and Stephen Ellsworth,…
Read more Lessons From Poppi’s Exit: Not Every Founder Is a CEOGold has just crossed a milestone no asset class has ever reached before—a $30 trillion market cap. That number alone says a lot about where investors are seeking…
Read more Gold is Making HistoryFranchising 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…
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