Shopify Inc. (NYSE: SHOP) is the poster child for why the pandemic was both a blessing and a curse for some companies. MarketBeat.com – MarketBeat Born out of necessity, a surge in demand for e-commerce technology drove the Canadian commerce platform provider’s stock as high as $1,762.90 in November 2021. Since difficult, if not impossible,…
Customer engagement software provider Verint Systems (NASDAQ: VRNT) stock has been resilient trading down (-17%) on the year compared to (-26%) for the Nasdaq 100 index. The Company is a benefactor of the cloud migration and digital transformation trend that continues to accelerate. The workforce engagement management is a growing field that plays right into…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Most people wouldn’t think that wholesale has much to do with the buying experience we all know and love today. But wholesale is actually where the innovation should shart. The best way to understand why is to learn from somebody on the inside. In the 1990s, Kristin…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. The pandemic has transformed the way people live and businesses operate. While many industries had to adjust their processes to adapt to a new normal, some thrived thanks to their digital model. A great example of one that thrived is financial technology, or fintech, which uses technology…
This so-called “crypto winter” will likely continue to be chilly for those hoping to get their money from crypto lender Celsius Network. On Wednesday, the company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, according to the Washington Post. Celsius had already paused all withdrawals in early June, “due to extreme market conditions.” “I am confident that when…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. The subscription economy has seen record growth and profitability recently. In fact, over the past decade, the subscription economy has grown almost five times faster than the S&P 500. Further, customers tend to feel more loyalty and spend more money with the brands they subscribe to. It’s…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. When real estate investors become successful, it is obviously the result of their hard work, but it is mainly due to their mindset. Everyone knows that the path of a real estate investor is full of pitfalls. In order to move forward, mental strength is required. It…
Microsoft Founder Bill Gates has long been a proponent of philanthropy. But the billionaire‘s latest pledge is so high that it will remove him from the list of the world’s richest people. Kevin Dietsch | Getty Images On Wednesday, Gates took to Twitter to announce that by 2026, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation would…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. I caught up with a founder recently, and we were talking about the obsession with real-life TV dramas focused on startups and founders that highlight the epic collapses of their empires. My friend mentioned that she was a friend of a friend of Elizabeth Holmes, former co-founder…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. In the Fall of 2014, my brother Jeremy and I had just begun working on our first “real” startup together. We both had day jobs. Jeremy was working for a small marketplace startup in San Francisco, and I was selling enterprise software for an analytics company in…