One of the most controversial facets of social media is how much influence a single user can have on how people view real-world happenings. On Twitter in particular, the surge of trending topics and hashtags can lead to cries of market manipulation (see: meme stocks like AMC and GameStop and fluctuations in crypto valuation). VCG | Getty Images Elon Musk […]
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Here’s a stat that should keep you up at night. The average age of an American farmer is nearly 60 years old. Shutterstock Now, think about what this means for our food. As farmers age out of the profession and fewer enter the field, we risk becoming
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. In 2019, I was lucky enough to give two TEDx talks. But the end result of the talk doesn’t reflect the months, and possibly even years, of work that goes into doing something like that. Since so much work goes into a polished final product, it’s easy
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve seen that Russia has invaded Ukraine. In part because of the more than two million Ukrainians who have been forced to evacuate since the beginning of the conflict, we’re seeing a dramatic shift in European real estate. Let’s take
This story appears in the April 2022 issue of Entrepreneur. Subscribe » Susan Rockey loved trucking. What she hated was compliance. Lured by the call of the open road after years of working as an ER tech and running group homes for emotionally disturbed kids, she took a job in 2015 at Conner Logistics. Mostly
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Luck? In the right place at the right time? Or neither? I recently had a visit with Kris Dehnert, founder of the Dehnert Media Group and an expert in scaling businesses, and Randall Thompson, former Minor League Pitcher for the Toronto Blue Jays and creator of the mug-from-a-bat Dugout Mug.
This story appears in the April 2022 issue of Entrepreneur. Subscribe » The lie of entrepreneurship is that it will change your fortune. The truth of entrepreneurship is that it will change you — and in ways that far exceed your balance sheet. MAX-O-MATIC This happened to me. It happened to Kat Norton. It’s why she
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. When the pandemic hit, companies felt like they were wading into uncharted waters. For most, remote work seemed like a new strategy, but many companies had been investing in establishing the necessary frameworks and precedents for years. At a time when few were paying attention to decentralized
Meta announced Monday that it’s begun testing the next big thing within the metaverse: the sale of digital goods and services that can be transported between virtual and physical worlds. CEO Mark Zuckerberg appeared in a video alongside a blog post on the company’s website, where he discussed how monetization tools within the company’s virtual-reality
If you are one of those people who make New Year’s resolutions, being more productive likely made the list. In fact, it probably makes the list for all people — year after year after year — because productivity can be elusive for all. Calendar – Calendar Even if you started 2022 with a constructive few