A business contributor outlines a framework called The Five Carries—covering responsibilities carried Up, Down, Across, Forward and Within—meant to help entrepreneurs reassess which duties they still need to personally handle as their companies grow. The piece cites Harvard Business Review research on entrepreneurial passion and burnout, and Gallup's State of the Global Workplace 2026 report, to argue that habits useful in a startup's early days can undermine sustainable growth later.
entrepreneur.com
· 2026-11-06
An entrepreneur who trained as an architect describes applying lessons from building design to founding a real estate technology company. The founder says the core insight was noticing that apartment hunters in New York were frustrated by confusing listings and overly polished photos that misrepresented units. The piece outlines a framework of starting with user needs, prioritizing function before aesthetics, and using constraints to sharpen product decisions.
entrepreneur.com
· 2026-10-29
An Entrepreneur contributor argues that attending business school remains a personal choice rather than a requirement for founders, noting that only about 6% of entrepreneurs held an MBA in 2023, though that figure is up 45% since 2010. The writer, who never attended business school, says the degree's main advantage is a built-in network of classmates, faculty and alumni rather than technical knowledge.
entrepreneur.com
· 2026-10-28
In an opinion piece for Entrepreneur, a former Fortune 500 executive and startup investor describes how skills he developed immigrating from Cyprus as a child—observation, resourcefulness, and adaptability—mirror habits needed for entrepreneurial success. He cites a Carnegie finding that immigrants founded or co-founded more than half of America's billion-dollar startups, and argues these habits can be adopted by anyone, not just immigrants.
entrepreneur.com
· 2026-10-27
An Entrepreneur magazine contributor, drawing on experience in medicine and business, describes five recurring daily habits observed among successful founders. These include guarding attention from constant reactivity, building reflection and recovery breaks into the workday, simplifying workflows, reducing operational friction, and staying close to customers.
entrepreneur.com
· 2026-10-27
A new study suggests that starting and running a business may be associated with living longer, despite the added workload entrepreneurs typically take on. Researchers point to the freedom and autonomy that come with entrepreneurship as a possible factor behind the health benefit.
fastcompany.com
· 2026-10-26
A contributor writing for Entrepreneur lays out a method for founders to validate demand before investing heavily in a business idea. The approach includes narrowly defining the customer and their costly problem, conducting interviews designed to challenge assumptions, mapping existing alternatives, and testing a minimal offer to see if people will actually pay.
entrepreneur.com
· 2026-10-26
A transcription company founder writes that clients who pick vendors based solely on the lowest price frequently end up paying more when the work must be redone. The piece distinguishes price, cost and value, noting the author's firm regularly gets hired to fix botched transcriptions originally done cheaply elsewhere.
entrepreneur.com
· 2026-10-26
The founder of Desert Forge Ventures, an early-stage venture capital fund focused on the Las Vegas startup ecosystem, describes a three-part approach called Act, Adjust, Absorb for making business decisions. The framework emphasizes gathering sufficient evidence rather than waiting for certainty, testing assumptions through conversations with knowledgeable contacts, and reflecting on outcomes afterward to refine judgment over time.
entrepreneur.com
· 2026-10-23
An Entrepreneur contributor writes that while passion drives founders to take risks and sustain effort, unchecked passion can cause exhaustion, excessive attachment to outcomes, and an identity fused with the business. The piece argues that passion needs to be balanced by dispassion and compassion to be sustainable, drawing on lessons from running multiple ventures and volunteering with the Art of Living Foundation.
entrepreneur.com
· 2026-10-23
An Entrepreneur contributor opinion piece argues that founders should evaluate whether a business idea can be defended from competitors before focusing on growth, using the example of a company that rebranded from Treat-a-Dog to Paw.com in 2018 after acquiring the domain, which the author says more than doubled sales in the following year.
entrepreneur.com
· 2026-10-22
A veteran investor and founder with over 30 years of startup experience describes a recurring failure pattern: friends forming companies based on personal affinity rather than complementary skills. He cites a case where four college friends built a company to millions in sales before filing for bankruptcy within two years, attributing the collapse to poor role allocation rather than lack of talent. He proposes a three-step process, starting with founders honestly assessing their own strengths and weaknesses before evaluating a potential partner.
entrepreneur.com
· 2026-10-21
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