Microsoft plans to reorganize its financial reporting starting next fiscal quarter, dropping its existing three segments—Productivity and Business Processes, Intelligent Cloud, and More Personal Computing—in favor of two new categories: Devices and Consumer, and Agents and Infra. The change, first reported by The Wall Street Journal, is meant to better reflect how the company's business now revolves around AI agents and infrastructure.
fastcompany.com
· 2026-09-03
Robert Rivani, who never finished high school, has built a real estate business in Miami that has generated more than $1 billion in property acquisitions and sales entirely with his own capital, without outside investors or partners. He got his start reselling sneakers before moving into real estate, where he specializes in buying undervalued properties and redeveloping them, including his newer Class X office concept that centers hospitality and wellness.
entrepreneur.com
· 2026-09-03
Conversational AI features are letting employees speak their thoughts aloud rather than type and heavily edit emails, reports, and presentations. This shift could reduce time spent perfecting formal, buttoned-up business language in favor of a more natural, spoken tone in workplace writing.
fastcompany.com
· 2026-09-03
A Walmart Business survey of over 500 decision-makers at companies with 10 to 500 employees found that 37% spend four to seven hours per week on routine purchasing tasks like comparing prices, placing orders and reconciling invoices. The survey also revealed that 87% of businesses juggle two to five suppliers just for everyday supplies, from office goods to breakroom snacks to tech accessories.
entrepreneur.com
· 2026-09-02
An entrepreneur used AI extensively to make pricing, hiring and marketing decisions while scaling a services business, reaching her $50,000 monthly revenue goal within six months. However, her underpriced premium offerings meant that payroll, rent and overhead grew alongside revenue, leaving no profit to reinvest or pay herself. The strain eventually caused missed deadlines, declining quality and staff departures.
entrepreneur.com
· 2026-09-02
A newly published Entrepreneur op-ed identifies five recurring operational strains that emerge as small businesses expand, drawing on a Federal Reserve Small Business Credit Survey and a Robert Half hiring survey. The piece argues these pressures—hiring shortfalls, slower customer response, cash flow constraints, breaking systems, and diluted culture—consistently surface once a company moves from a small team to a larger one. It frames these not as reasons to avoid growth but as predictable hurdles that leaders can prepare for in advance.
entrepreneur.com
· 2026-09-02
A veteran entrepreneur reflects on more than two decades of running a business by personally handling every crisis, from vendor problems to client calls, believing that constant involvement equaled strong leadership. He describes realizing that this reliance on him personally was actually a sign of poor systems and an inability to delegate, rather than a badge of competence.
entrepreneur.com
· 2026-09-02
Harvard Business School has launched an eight-week online entrepreneurship program priced at $699 that uses AI-generated avatars of its faculty to provide round-the-clock guidance to participants. The course lets aspiring founders interact with digital clones of professors instead of relying solely on scheduled lectures or office hours, and early participants have reportedly responded positively.
fastcompany.com
· 2026-09-01
Jon Spiteri, whose family has run hospitality businesses for over a century starting with an English guesthouse his parents opened after emigrating from Tunisia in 1957, now works with his own children at Latimer restaurant in West London. He argues against the common workplace advice that staff should separate personal struggles from work, saying managers should instead support employees through hardships.
entrepreneur.com
· 2026-09-01
An Entrepreneur contributor column describes coaching a founder who had crossed seven figures in revenue and had a five-person team, yet still personally approved every decision and monitored every team chat message. The founder believed constant micromanagement was simply required to run a business, a belief the writer traces to an outdated subconscious 'operational identity' left over from her solopreneur days.
entrepreneur.com
· 2026-09-01
Best Buy is offering the 256GB Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra for $1,799.99, a $300 discount that marks the lowest price since the phone debuted last month. The foldable brings brighter screens, sharper cameras, faster charging, and a larger 5,000mAh battery compared to its predecessor, though its hinge durability and IP48 rating trail some rival foldables.
theverge.com
· 2026-09-01
McDonald's launched a Dragonberry Energizer drink in partnership with Red Bull, and days later Taco Bell countered with three new energy refreshers, according to Restaurant Business. Both fast-food giants are pushing deeper into beverages as customer spending rises and drinks attract new visitors.
entrepreneur.com
· 2026-08-31
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