In 2008, as I sat on a Southwest flight bound for Austin, Texas, I remember being so nervous that I attempted to buckle my seat belt backward; as the world grappled with the Great Recession, I ...

I helped plan my daughter’s wedding and learned several valuable business lessons along the way. Great communication, constant prioritization, setting clear goals and understanding shared goals were ...

Adapting to the speed of change in tech, industry-wide layoffs, and extensive cost-cutting—these trends from the previous years seemed to have gained momentum in 2024. At the same time, some ...

Failed startups are not rare. Nearly 90% of startup businesses fail. Most don’t make it past the first couple of years. And while headlines love to spotlight the overnight successes and billion-dollar ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Lien De Pau, founder of The Big Exit. Sell your biz for max value. Have you ever wanted to sell your business, but were unable to ...

Local Miami high school sophomores Luca Benito and Andrew Ajmani, the sons of two female entrepreneurs, were disillusioned after completing an entrepreneurship class because it failed to deliver the ...

Every entrepreneur starts somewhere — often with a first job far from the boardroom or venture capital. From mowing lawns to selling computers, knives and more, some of the most formative early gigs ...

As the COVID-19 pandemic forced California businesses to shut down in March 2020, the fate of small businesses, which often had fewer reserves to draw upon when trying to survive the shutdowns, became ...

As someone who is self-employed, I spend a lot of time thinking about disaster recovery and continuity of business. After all, if I were to suffer a major IT disaster and had no contingency plan, I ...

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With the new year already upon us and the old one in the review, here are some of the lessons 2014 taught us, along with a few fearless predictions for 2015. 7. All the money is in the ticketing.

Last Friday, CrowdStrike Falcon, a security platform used by large companies and government organizations for their PC networks, suffered an outage that caused worldwide disruption. The problem ...