Entrepreneurship
Major retailers boost Black female entrepreneurship as employment gap lingers
Ulta Beauty has doubled the number of Black-owned brands that it carries. Ulta Beauty Major beauty retailers are boosting small, minority-owned businesses as Black female entrepreneurship helps bridge an employment gap. As of last year, 17% of Black women in the U.S. were in the process of starting or running new businesses, according to the […]
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A 28-year-old who made $100,000 in passive income ‘in just one day’ shares 5 books that helped her get started
When people think of what it takes to start a business, words like “struggle” and “stressful” come to mind. But it was rewriting this narrative that allowed me to achieve success as an entrepreneur. I was always a shy and anxious person. But in 2020, I made an effort to rewire my mindset and started […]
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This 29-year-old makes $400,000 per year and owns 3 properties: ‘5 things I refuse to spend money on’
In 2018, I hit my first six-figure year as a freelance writer on Fiverr, earning nearly $300,000 in revenue writing blogs, press releases and website content for clients. Now, at 29, I have six streams of income — from freelance writing, influencer sponsorships, eBook sales, course sales, ad revenue and affiliate revenue. Last year, I […]
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Elon Musk could try to run three major companies at once — the last known CEO who did it is now an international fugitive
Elon Musk’s bid to acquire Twitter might have an undesirable side-effect for the billionaire: adding yet another large company to his jam-packed schedule. The Tesla and SpaceX CEO has offered to buy every Twitter share he doesn’t already own — 90.8% of the company — in a deal worth roughly $43 billion, according to a […]
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Elon Musk says humans could eventually download their brains into robots — and Grimes thinks Jeff Bezos would do it
Elon Musk says a lot of seemingly fantastical things. For example: The billionaire Tesla and SpaceX CEO seems to believe that humans will eventually be able to live forever, by downloading their brains into robots. “I think it is possible,” Musk, 50, recently told Insider. “Yes, we could download the things that we believe make […]
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Jack Dorsey regrets that he’s ‘partially to blame’ for the state of the internet today
Jack Dorsey says he has regrets about the social media giant he co-founded. Dorsey, who announced plans to leave Twitter in November, recently tweeted that he feels guilty about the role the company has played in creating a centralized internet, where a small handful of companies and platforms claim an outsized proportion of users and […]
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Here are the 3 top trends for Asia’s start-up scene in 2022, according to Microsoft
For entrepreneurs in Asia, the future seems brighter than ever. More so than elsewhere in the world, Asia “leapfrogged other forms of connectivity” to become so-called “mobile-first,” said Jesus Martin, chief strategy at Microsoft Asia. “And because Asia went mobile-first, mobile became the platform that underpinned innovations and new business models.” Mobile first refers to the strategy […]
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This 38-year-old makes $160,000 per month in passive income—after losing his job: ‘I work only 5 hours a week now’
Growing up, I loved music and had my sights set on becoming a full-time musician. I followed my dream in a practical way — working a corporate 9-to-5 as an audio engineer while growing a business as a freelance music producer for indie artists on the side. But in 2009, at age 26, I lost […]
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Elon Musk just bought 9% of Twitter—here’s how much money you’d have if you invested $1,000 five years ago
Twitter shares soared in Monday morning trading after filings revealed that Tesla CEO Elon Musk had purchased a 9.2% stake in the social network. Musk’s 73,486,938 shares make him Twitter’s largest shareholder, and were valued by CNBC at $2.89 billion at Friday’s closing price — a fraction of the world’s richest man’s $273 billion fortune, […]
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Here’s what’s inside the nearly $140,000 gift bag given to Steven Spielberg, Will Smith and other Oscar nominees
The Oscars are on Sunday, and Los Angeles will soon be awash in designer gowns, famous movie stars and high-price gift bags. For the 20th consecutive year, LA-based marketing company Distinctive Assets is distributing its famously expensive “Everybody Wins” gift bags to select nominees. This year’s bag is valued at just over $137,000 and includes […]
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