Category: entrepreneurship

Need a Business Idea? Here Are 55.

The Staff of Entrepreneur Media, Inc.   To start one of these home-based businesses, you don’t need a lot of funding — just energy, passion and the drive to succeed. This article has been excerpted from 55 Surefire Home Based Businesses You Can Start for Under $5,000 and other great resource books published by Entrepreneur Press. Looking to…


Americans Leaving Jobs to Start Their Own Businesses at Record Pace

The pandemic has triggered a wave of entrepreneurship—at least in thought. Among Americans, two in five plan on starting a business in 2022, according to a Digital.com survey. And new business applications soared to 5.4 million in 2021, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, exceeding the previous record in 2020 of 4.4 million. The increase is 53…


Students as Decision-Makers

For 21 years, I was lucky enough to teach fifth grade. When people asked me what that was like, I always said, 10- and 11-year-olds are capable of learning anything an adult can learn, without the interference of hormones or bills to pay. They are still motivated to learn if the learning is relevant and…


Want to Start a Small Business? 2022 Could Be Your Year

It’s hard to believe 2021 is almost over—but here we are. And if you’ve been thinking about starting a small business for a while, then the upcoming year could be the perfect time. But I totally get that it can be hard to know where to start, so let’s walk through five important tips that…


Have Pizza, Will Barter: The Irregular Story of Unregular Pizza

What would you give for a fresh-baked pizza? For some people, anything from homemade cocktails to caviar to a night in a hotel penthouse, Gabriele Lamonaca discovered. The 31-year-old Rome-born, New York City-based pizzaiolo is the creator of Unregular Pizza, a new pizzeria built on an age-old idea: bartering. When the pandemic hit, putting Lamonaca…


A Butcher Shop With Wild Dreams

If you wander into Beck & Bulow, an unassuming butcher shop under a red awning on Cerrillos Road in Santa Fe, New Mexico, you might find yourself standing side-by-side with Hollywood A-listers (or their chefs) and a cowboy buying a tomahawk. That’s not the iconic war axe of some indigenous North American tribes, but rather…


How a 5th-Generation Maine Lobsterman Started a Home Goods Company

Present an entrepreneurial spirit with the right opportunity, then step back and watch the magic happen: The ambitious among us are unable to resist the pull. That’s certainly the case for Logan Rackliff, who founded and co-owns The Rope Co. in Warren, Maine, with his wife, Hannah. It’s also the case for his forefathers—a long…


Tying It All Together: How a 5th-Generation Maine Lobsterman Started a Home Goods Company

Present an entrepreneurial spirit with the right opportunity, then step back and watch the magic happen: The ambitious among us are unable to resist the pull. That’s certainly the case for Logan Rackliff, who founded and co-owns The Rope Co. in Warren, Maine, with his wife, Hannah. It’s also the case for his forefathers—a long…


For Family and Freedom

Parting from his wife and two sons was the hardest thing Tiberiu Czentye had ever done—harder than the upcoming 40-mile trek that would end with him crawling on the ground as he tried to evade armed guards near the Romanian–Yugoslavian border, harder than what would be months of hard labor in a Yugoslavian prison after…


KC Cattle Co: A Former Army Ranger Forges a New Path on the Ranch

Patrick Montgomery served honorably as an Army Ranger in Afghanistan, and endured his share of loss and trauma during his military career. As he tried to transition to the civilian world, he encountered a hiring manager who told him that his status as a veteran would hurt, rather than help him find employment. Fortunately, Montgomery…