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[ad_1] Reader Resource Apply now to be an Entrepreneur 360™ company. Let us tell the world your success story. Get Started » Did Amazon kill retail? Warren Buffet seems to think so. After watching a 21 percent decline in Wal-Mart stock since 2014, Berkshire Hathaway sold off nearly all its $900 …

[ad_1] The definition for “business” in past centuries and for several years into this one might be summed up as “providing goods and services to satisfy human needs and desires.” But, today, this basic concept alone won’t fly if you want to thrive and find yourself a piece of the entrepreneurship pie. Related: 5 …

[ad_1] Reader Resource Apply now to be an Entrepreneur 360™ company. Let us tell the world your success story. Get Started » In 2012, Amazon was starting to become a real threat to our continued success. I was the newly-minted CEO of an IT services company, Logicworks, a top complex …

[ad_1] This story appears in the November 2016 issue of Entrepreneur. Subscribe » In 2011, my five pals and I were driving home from one of our weekend ski trips in Vermont. We were engineering students at the time and used to throw out all kinds of ideas during those …

[ad_1] This story appears in the October 2016 issue of Entrepreneur. Subscribe » Tya Tiempetch  Owner, The Rabbit Hole, Miami “The smaller your niche, the easier it is to connect with a core customer base. Plus, your social media presence will be more impactful.” Tiempetch’s shop has 15,000 Instagram followers, …

[ad_1] This story appears in the October 2016 issue of Entrepreneur. Subscribe » Griffin “Griff” Kubik is holding a dog leash, his 3-year-old fingers wrapped around the vinyl cord as a terrier sniffs the grass near his feet. It might not look like it to passersby in the park, but …

[ad_1] Entrepreneurs, perhaps more than anyone else, love to talk about their mistakes. They’ve been conditioned to see failure as a learning experience — that, rather than being the end of something, a big flop is merely a very useful (though painful) data point along the way to success. And …

[ad_1] This story appears in the November 2016 issue of Entrepreneur. Subscribe » Entrepreneurship is no walk in the park. The mistakes leaders make can have personal impact. Take it from the founder of Renoun, a startup specializing in professional skis. Circumstance forced him to ask his friends to give up their stakes in …

[ad_1] This story appears in the November 2016 issue of Entrepreneur. Subscribe » Jenny Duranski was eight months pregnant, on her hands and knees, cleaning up a flood in her eco-friendly nail salon, Noktivo. She’d signed a lease for the Chicago retail spot just nine months earlier, but as her …

[ad_1] As an entrepreneur, you know you are done working for other people, but you might not know what comes next. How do you create a sustainable business? What if you’re struggling to create a business idea?  Investing in a franchise tends to be safer than creating a new business …