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For centuries, great thinkers have instinctively stepped out the door and begun walking, or at the very least pacing, when they needed to boost creativity. Charles Dickens routinely walked for 30 miles a day, while the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche declared, “All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking.”
But in recent years, as lives have become increasingly sedentary, the idea...
By Matthew Frankel Published
If you work from home, the IRS might allow you to take a pretty substantial deduction for the business use of your residence. However, the deduction has some specific requirements you need to know about before claiming your home office on this year's taxes. Here's a rundown of this potentially valuable deduction, and what you...
It's not so easy to tell what is success, because it can mean many different things. When I was in my early twenties I thought that success is about money. I thought that if I have a big house, if I have a big car, I will be successful. But then I realized that there are people who have...
By Kelly Hoey
Ah, that emotional roller-coaster that is entrepreneurship--when you ask the question on "how do you manage it"- even the busiest entrepreneur has an answer. As I noted in a prior post, I decided to reach out to a variety of entrepreneurs (tech, established, funded, bootstrapped, local and global) how they deal with a particularly stressful days (which can...
by Tom Morse
And meeting the right people
The Entrepreneur Insiders network is an online community where the most thoughtful and influential people in America’s startup scene contribute answers to timely questions about entrepreneurship and careers. Today’s answer to the question “How can a connection with a stranger lead to your next business success?” is written by Tom Morse,...
Age is just a number -- but, then again, so is your annual revenue. Being a young entrepreneur is both a blessing and a curse. Unlike corporate America, we can take risks and iterate our businesses in real-time to figure out where profit opportunities lie. However, the curse lies in the learning curve. As young entrepreneurs, we’re often left to our own...
Ever wondered why some people seem to have it all - success, happiness, money, love - and other people seem to lean into the struggle every single day? It's not just luck. They have habits that are different from everyone else, and they put those habits into regular practice.
The best part is, these 10 shockingly simple habits of successful...
by Nellie Akalp
The personal-finance website WalletHub recently took a look at the best and worst metro areas for women-owned businesses. They compared the 100 largest metropolitan areas across 10 different metrics that indicate friendliness toward women-owned businesses. For example, they looked at average revenue growth of women owned businesses in each area, as well as the diversity of women owned...
It may not be easy, but it’s not complicated, either.
As the chief executive and sole owner of Landry’s Inc., the restaurant corporation that includes Morton’s, Golden Nugget Hotel and Casinos, Rainforest Cafe and Bubba Gump Shrimp Co. among other franchises, Tilman Fertitta has made a multibillion-dollar career buying failing businesses and turning them into thriving ones.
By now, he’s become...
If you’re a successful entrepreneur, chances are, this isn’t your first rodeo.
Most successful entrepreneurs whom I know are people who have tried, failed, tried, failed, and tried again — often many tries later — and eventually succeeded.
An entrepreneur who succeeds at his or her first venture is like getting a hole-in-one. Everyone wants a hole-in-one. Everyone tries to get a hole-in-one....