I lost $30,000 on my first business. Two years later, I built a business worth over $9 million — these are the lessons I learned

Michelle Hu, owner of Étoile, shares how learning from her failed beauty tech app led to Étoile's over $9 milion revenue last ...
The Business Journals

5 business lessons to learn from high-profile corporate failures

Business Journals Leadership Trust is an invite-only network of influential business leaders, executives and entrepreneurs in your community. To continue reading this ...
Fast Company

4 business lessons learned from growing up on a family farm

The Fast Company Executive Board is a private, fee-based network of influential leaders, experts, executives, and entrepreneurs who share their insights with our audience. BY Cheri Beranek In many ...
Kellogg School of Management

5 entrepreneurial lessons about building a business during an MBA

As I started my Kellogg journey in 2023, I often repeated to myself and others: “One of the riskiest things you can do is start your own business. The least risky way to do it is to build while you’re ...
Insider Monkey

20 Most Valuable Business Lessons to Make You More Successful

In this article, we will talk about the 20 most valuable business lessons to make you more successful. If you want to skip our detailed analysis, you can go directly to 5 Most Valuable Business ...
Entrepreneur

4 Critical Business Lessons I’ve Learned as a CEO

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. With the ever-changing economic climate, many people are getting into entrepreneurship, which makes sense, because there are several ...
Harvard Business Review

Lessons in Business Innovation from Legendary Restaurant elBulli

How chef Ferran Adrià and his restaurant team balance innovation with business objectives. Ferran Adrià, chef at legendary Barcelona-based restaurant elBulli, was facing two related decisions. First, ...
Rolling Stone

12 Lessons These Business Leaders Are Still Learning About How to Succeed

Professional development is often focused on improving yourself and your skills to help you move up in your career. The better you are at something, and the more skills you have, the higher on the ...
San Francisco Fed

Lessons Learned from Small Business Lending During COVID-19: A Case Study of the California Rebuilding Fund

As the COVID-19 pandemic forced California businesses to shut down in March 2020, the fate of small businesses, which often had fewer reserves to draw upon when trying to survive the shutdowns, became ...
Forbes

Lessons From 2008–09: Building A Business Out Of A Recession

Sean Manning is CEO and Founder of Payroll Vault Franchising LLC, as well as a CPA, and Thought Leader in the Financial Field. The next several months will be one of the more interesting economic ...
Newsweek

Business Lessons Leaders Can Learn from the Pandemic

COVID has arguably caused the greatest disruption to society since World War II. In just a few short weeks, it forced massive change to how organizations function, changes that might have taken years ...
Newsweek

Lessons in Leverage: What International Merchants Taught Me About Business Negotiations

For over thirty-five years, I've been traveling the globe, striking up negotiations and sealing deals, from Russia to Zimbabwe and Indonesia to Bosnia. Nothing in my education or prior business ...