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3 AI Shortcuts That Quiet Your Inbox, Fill Your Pipeline and Give You Back Your Time

For busy entrepreneurs, every second counts. The good news? These easy-to-set AI automations can give you back hours of time.

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Aytekin Tank

What Leading Without Authority Teaches You That Titles Never Will

Leading without a title forces a level of trust, alignment and influence that formal authority can't replicate.

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Michel Koopman

AI Is Making Strong Companies Stronger While Exposing Weak Ones Faster. Here’s What Leaders Need to Understand.

As companies rush to adopt AI for speed and efficiency, many are discovering that technology also exposes deeper operational weaknesses.

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Jessica Wong

The Missing Factor Behind Why Your Marketing Isn’t Converting

After years across agencies and enterprise marketing teams, I’ve found that most underperformance isn’t a creative problem — it’s a...

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Stephanie wicky

Your Contractors Represent Your Brand. Are You Treating Them That Way?

Your compliance process is often the only experience contractors have with your company — make it count.

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Scott Baradell

Why I Became the Bottleneck in My Own Company — and What I Had to Change to Finally Scale

In my first tech company, I stayed too deep in execution for too long — still closing deals, managing sales and operating in the weeds even as the...

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Brett Sutherlin

Outsiders Think This Industry is ‘Disappearing,’ But It’s Actually Growing Faster Than Ever: ‘People Are Craving Connection’

People often assume the industry is dying out.

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Sherin Shibu

In High School, These Friends Started a ‘Roadkill’ Side Hustle. Their Business Made Nearly $600K Last Year: ‘Didn’t Have a Lot of Experience’

Anthony Heathco and Colton Roush began with a lawnmower — now they have a lucrative business.

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Amanda Breen

How You Can Turn Personal Discipline into the Ultimate Business Advantage

Never has staying focused and staying on track been more important.

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Richard Ceffalio

Don’t Just Be the Nice Guy — How Falling Into the ‘Empathy Trap’ Made Me a Bad Leader

If you are a founder stuck in the "nice guy" cycle, you need to remember that you can be a nice person and a demanding leader at the same time.

previous day 3

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Vishal Vivek

The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Eating for Energy, Not Just Losing Weight

Most nutrition advice for entrepreneurs focuses on weight loss. After 40, that focus misses the real issue. The right approach to eating isn’t about...

previous day 3

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Philip Blackett

This $6.6 Billion AI CEO Has a Surprising Offer for Laid-Off Tech Workers

Lovable CEO Anton Osika asked laid-off tech workers to consider joining an “extremely fast-paced” startup.

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Sherin Shibu

From QVC to Countdown Timers — How eCosmetics Is Turning Beauty Shopping Into a Live Auction Game

A look inside eCosmetics' strategy to grow online shopping by tapping into the fun and competition of live auctions.

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Logan simmons

What Happens When You Keep Running From Conflict — and Why It Always Catches Up

​Cultures that are capable of navigating conflict start at the top, and that means leadership has to be open to disagreements and discussions....

previous day 3

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Allison schultz

3 SEO Mistakes That Are Making Small Businesses Invisible in AI Search

Nearly 70% of Google searches now end without a click. If your business is still optimizing for a world that rewarded keywords over clarity, you are...

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Ali Raza

The Trade Show Strategy No One Is Talking About — and How It Built Nearly $1M in Pipeline

We turned a 10x10 booth into a live content engine that generated 80 videos and nearly $1 million in pipeline. Here’s how.

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Stephanie Garcia 

The Lowest-Cost Player Doesn’t Always Win — A Market Lesson From Batteries

Solar and wind look like they have a cost advantage, but batteries show why the most flexible actors often capture the economic surplus instead.

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Neel Somani

The New Claude Opus 4.8 Just Dropped — It Was Trained to Be More ‘Honest’ and Stop ‘Jumping to Conclusions’

The company says the latest version of its flagship AI model knows to admit when it doesn't know something and stops making unsupported claims.

previous day 5

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Jonathan Small

The ‘World’s Richest Restaurateur’ Snapped Up Iconic Vegas Casino Caesars Entertainment for $17.6 Billion

Tilman Fertitta already owns Landry's, the Houston Rockets, and the Golden Nugget casinos. Now he's adding Caesars to his empire.

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Jonathan Small

A Blue Origin Rocket Blew Up on the Launchpad — Jeff Bezos Called It a ‘Very Rough Day’

No one was injured in the explosion, but the fireball destroyed Blue Origin's only launchpad and could impede NASA's moon missions.

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Jonathan Small

A Google Engineer Used Confidential Search Data to Win $1.2 Million on Polymarket, Feds Say — His Best Bet Involved an Alleged Killer

Michele Spagnuolo allegedly used internal data to bet on accused killer D4vd becoming Google's most-searched person of 2025.

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Jonathan Small

85% of Employees Experience at Least 1 Tech-Related Slowdown Every Day — and It’s Costing You More Than You Think

Many companies obsess over every touchpoint a customer might encounter. The experience their own employees have every day is often a different story.

thursday 3

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Scott Baradell

I’m a Business Consultant Who’s Seen the Best Advice Fail Companies — Here’s What Goes Wrong

After consulting with small businesses for years, I realized the biggest reason companies fail isn’t bad advice — it’s that most owners never...

thursday 2

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Gene Marks, Opinion Contributor

18 Years Ago, I Felt Invisible — A Moment That Forced Me to Rethink Business Success and Learn 5 Critical Lessons

After chronic illness forced me to stop performing and start rebuilding from limitation, I discovered why the founders who look busiest often build...

thursday 3

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Lauren hirsch williams

I Never Ask My Team to Change — I Ask Them to Grow. Here’s Why It Works.

Don't ask your team to change; ask them to grow. Here's the difference — and how it helps us scale while maintaining culture.

thursday 2

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Chris Sorensen

6 Data-Driven Practices That Separate High-Performing Companies From Everyone Else

Being data-driven isn't about having the best tools — it's about leaders acting on the right signals quickly and consistently.

thursday 4

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Aravind Nuthalapati

Google’s CEO Was Asked If Companies Should Plan for ‘Zero’ Search Traffic — Here’s How He Answered

The Google CEO sat down with The Verge and got pressed on whether websites should plan for the death of search traffic.

thursday 4

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Jonathan Small

How This 6-Time Founder Turned HSAs Into a Preventive Health Startup Powerhouse — and the 4-Step Framework He Uses to Solve Any Problem

Justin Mares, CEO and co-founder of Truemed, explains the marketplace that lets consumers use HSAs to pay for preventive health products ranging from...

thursday 5

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Dan Bova

Here’s Why Top YouTubers Are Betting on This New $3,750 Training Program for Creators: ‘We See an Opportunity’

YouTubers with millions of subscribers, like Jordan Matter, Michelle Khare and Samir Chaudry, are advising the new learning platform.

thursday 4

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Sherin Shibu

He Watched His Stanford Friends Become Dotcom Millionaires — Then Bought 8 Applebee’s and Became a Billionaire

Greg Flynn skipped the dotcom rush to bet on franchising. He now runs more than 3,000 outlets across seven brands and three countries.

thursday 2

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Jonathan Small

Nate Bargatze on Bombing, Betting on Yourself, and His First Flick ‘The Breadwinner’

Comedian, writer, and newly minted movie star Nate Bargatze joins How Success Happens to talk about turning clean jokes into a powerhouse career and...

thursday 3

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Dan Bova

14 Million Americans Could Be Using This Powerful, Little-Known Tool to Boost Their Savings. Are You One of Them?

More than 70 million U.S. adults live with a disability, but only 2% know what an ABLE account is.

thursday 4

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Sherin Shibu

The Leader Everyone Relies on Is Often the One Nobody Checks on. Here’s How to Break the Pattern.

This piece challenges high-achieving leaders to examine where they may be participating in their own isolation and what it looks like to finally lead...

thursday 3

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Mandy morris

Your Businesses Shouldn’t Compete — Here’s the Complete Playbook to Making Your Brands Collab, From Someone Who’s Doing It

A lot of entrepreneurs are sitting on gold mines and don't even realize that the businesses they already own could be collaborating with each other....

thursday 3

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Tonia Ryan

Everyone Says Directories Are Dead in 2026 Because of AI — So I Rebuilt a 19-Year-Old One to Prove Them Wrong

I built DirJournal in 2007 and nearly shut it down in 2026. Instead, I spent two and a half months rebuilding it from the ground up — 30,000...

thursday 4

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Hasan Saleem

Your Employees Know What to Do — Do They Know Why It Matters? Here’s Why Teams Need Purpose, Not Just Direction.

Understanding the strategic power of "why" in entrepreneurial leadership.

thursday 3

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Majeed Javdani

Ferrari Just Launched a $640,000 EV and It’s Already Backfired: ‘The Destruction of a Legend’

The Italian sports car maker is betting big on its new EV. But enthusiasts, analysts and an ex-chairman think the Luce is a lemon.

thursday 3

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Jonathan Small

Robinhood Will Now Let AI Trade Your Stocks and Swipe Your Credit Card — Here’s How It Works

The platform is letting users connect Claude and Cursor to dedicated accounts. AI agents can trade, shop and book on your behalf.

thursday 2

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Jonathan Small

Why the Next Wave of European Crowdlending Looks Nothing Like the First

Europe's €39B annual SME financing gap is fueling fintech lending growth, with alternative platforms projected to expand at 13.6% CAGR through 2029.

thursday 5

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Logan simmons

Sorry, Remote Workers: The U.S. Tax Man Travels With You — 8 Tax Strategies for Digital Nomads

With the right planning, digital nomads can legally reduce US tax exposure and simplify compliance while focusing on building their business and life...

27.05.2026 7

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Nathalie goldstein

How Foreign Investments Can Lead to IRS Penalties That Wipe Out Profits

Global diversification can be a powerful wealth strategy, but without proper tax planning, foreign investments can trigger complex reporting rules and...

27.05.2026 4

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George Dimov

This $7.2 Billion Startup CEO Gets Applications From Thousands of Job-Seekers a Day. Here’s What He’s Looking For.

The CEO is a former Google engineer who now leads a $7.2 billion AI company.

27.05.2026 7

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Sherin Shibu

Family Dining Chains That Don’t Serve This Meal Saw Sales Grow 11.6%

Restaurants serving only breakfast and lunch are beating traditional family diners. Here's the reason why.

27.05.2026 8

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Jonathan Small

I Pitched My Product From a Citi Bike — And Ate It for 100 Days Straight. Now It’s in Whole Foods and Surpassing $700,000 a Year.

Damiano Messineo merged his two passions: business and food.

27.05.2026 7

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Amanda Breen

Rob Mac Shares the One-Word Reason He Teamed Up With Enterprise for a Truly Wild World Cup Sweepstakes

The 'It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia' creator and co-chairman of Wrexham AFC talks about big risks and bigger rewards.

27.05.2026 3

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Dan Bova

Stop Burning Out — 3 Energy Traps You Keep Falling For and How to Teach Your Nervous System to Avoid Them

Sustainable performance isn't about resting more. It's about teaching your nervous system how to land.

27.05.2026 4

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Ashley Armstrong

Why Good Small Business Always Run Out of Cash — and What Savvy Entrepreneurs Do Differently

Here's why cash flow is so brutal for independent merchants — and what they can actually do about it.

27.05.2026 7

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Dax Dasilva

“Better” Isn’t Always Enough. Why Smart Leaders Use This Hidden Curve to Decide Who Wins

Most obvious upgrades fail because substitution is a curve shaped by switching costs, incentives, and sticky market effects, not a clean head-to-head...

27.05.2026 5

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Neel Somani

Your Team Left the Meeting Aligned — Execution Fell Apart Anyway. Here’s Why.

Even when meetings end with everyone agreeing, side conversations can dissolve alignment. Here's how to stop the drift.

27.05.2026 6

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Bayo Akinola-Odusola

CEOs Are Blaming AI for Layoffs. Nvidia’s Jensen Huang Says That’s a ‘Lazy’ Excuse.

Huang said that leaders should be more cautious when talking about AI.

27.05.2026 7

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Sherin Shibu