[ad_1] The following excerpt is from The Staff of Entrepreneur Media, Inc. & Cheryl Kimball’s book Start Your Own Specialty Food Business. Buy it now from Amazon | Barnes & Noble | iTunes The Staff of Entrepreneur Media Inc. explain how you can launch a profitable specialty food business, with …

[ad_1] Reader Resource Join Entrepreneur’s The Goal Standard Challenge and make 2017 yours. Learn more » Small business has been a big focus for President Trump and his administration. Recently, he met with Alibaba Group CEO Jack Ma, where they declared their joint intention to help create a million new U.S. …

[ad_1] “Data tells a compelling story — way more compelling than whatever I can articulate,” Maia Josebachvili, vice president of strategy, marketing and people at the recruitment software company, Greenhouse, told me. Related: Why You Need to Embrace the Big Data Trend in HR Josebachvilli is like so many others …

[ad_1] Reader Resource Join Entrepreneur’s The Goal Standard Challenge and make 2017 yours. Learn more » Free flow of information has been one of the major tenets of the Internet since we were all dialing up with AOL discs we grabbed from Circuit City counters. Now our job for 2016 …

[ad_1] Every company has values, but not every company truly lives (and works) by them. It’s those very beliefs that help build a strong team foundation and an even stronger company culture. However, a company’s moral code can easily get lost in the hustle and bustle of the work day. …

[ad_1] Failure is almost a rite of passage in the startup space, with nine out of 10 new businesses crashing and burning. Tellingly, 42 percent fail because they created a product no one wanted to buy. And there’s a lesson there: No matter how good your idea, you need to make sure …

[ad_1] For many, working for themselves online is a dream come true. Not only are they able to choose clients, manage responsibilities and work how, when and where they want, but the overall sense of empowerment that comes through being their own boss is a feeling that’s second to none. …

[ad_1] Reader Resource Join Entrepreneur’s The Goal Standard Challenge and make 2017 yours. Learn more » Eighty percent of sales are executed by just 8 percent of salespeople. This doesn’t mean that there are some killer sales reps out there who are simply better wired at bringing home the bacon, it means …

[ad_1] The Dow, S&P 500, Nasdaq and Russell 2000 each hit new all-time highs Monday. Investors are giddy with excitement and they clearly believe that both big blue chip multinationals and smaller companies that do most of their business in the U.S. will continue to thrive. So is this the …

[ad_1] Last Sunday, the New England Patriots overcame a 25-point deficit to beat the Atlanta Falcons in Super Bowl LI. During commercial breaks, brands large and small were spending upwards of $5 million apiece to overcome their own deficits — who knows about their brands? Are people willing to use …