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You're reading Entrepreneur Middle East, an international franchise of Entrepreneur Media. Before getting started on the road to founding a business, there is one question that every potential entrepreneur needs to ask the mirror: “Am I entrepreneur material?” Because if you are not- the ride can be a rather painful one. While there is no simple way of gauging whether you are...
Starting a small business seems to be very difficult for many individuals. They always feel stuck in the questions like How to start a small business or what will happen if we’ll get failed in launching a business. These are the questions that become headache for them and they feel overwhelmed. If you think that you also fall in the...
Love him or hate him, Donald Trump is one of a kind. Politics aside, Trump knows what it means to be successful in money and in life. In the world of real estate, there aren't many people who have amassed the wealth of The Donald. No matter what you think of him politically or when it comes to personal...
By Lina Psaila Swapping your commute for a stroll from kitchen to study sounds enviable. But there’s a reason why ‘working from home’ tends to mean ‘watching breakfast TV in your pyjamas’. Most home offices don’t deserve the name: your kitchen table is...
By GG van Rooyen When Steve Jobs returned to Apple in 1997 after years of exile, he found a company with way too many fingers in way too many pies. Apple was hedging its bets, building a multitude of products in the hopes that one or two would be hits. At the time, Apple had more than 30 products in production....
By GG van Rooyen When Steve Jobs returned to Apple in 1997 after years of exile, he found a company with way too many fingers in way too many pies. Apple was hedging its bets, building a multitude of products in the hopes that one or two would be hits. At the time, Apple had more than 30 products in production....
By Chris Haroun I had a dream that I went to a corporate picnic and I had to tell my kids to please be on their best behavior so it wouldn't limit my career. Actually, this wasn't a dream; it was a nightmare. If I had to create a title for my nightmare, it would be called "Forced Family Fun!" It doesn't...
When she was just a sophomore at Georgetown University, Ann Yang started a business with her best friend, Phil Wong. They wanted to address the growing problem of food waste — up to 40 percent of all food produced in the U.S. winds up in the trash. Their concept: Repurpose so-called "ugly" produce that would otherwise end up in...
By Dustin McKissen When I was 18 years old, I moved into a Honda Civic. I didn't get along with my parents, didn't have money for an apartment, and was not attending college. I read a lot about the student debt crisis many young people face today, and while that is real, with potentially dire consequences, I faced a crisis of...
By Bryony Stone April Fools' Day used to be a fairly innocuous tradition that involved newspapers publishing one silly story somewhere downpage in the "In Brief" section. Over the last few years though, a blend of social media, viral culture and Photoshop have swung April Fools' Day into more calculated territory, as global brands have attempted to hijack the banterwagon...