Starbucks Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Brian Niccol told employees that the company will be conducting corporate layoffs this spring in a new memo. The notice was also posted on the company’s website on Friday. Since joining the coffee chain in September, Niccol has begun a bevy of changes, including a revamped code of conduct…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. We live in an age where founding an online business has never been simpler. Through the internet and AI, you can do more things and reach more people than ever before. And yet, many aspiring founders fail or burn out, never realizing their goals. Why? Perhaps because…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. While vision is important to success, execution matters most. Startups can succumb to multiple points of failure — people, products, competition and legal challenges, to name a few. These issues can be interconnected, compounding the difficulty of overcoming them. Ours is a cautionary tale concerning key man…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Despite significant growth in recent years, women are still a notable minority within STEM fields. Women make up an estimated 34% of the STEM workforce overall, yet in more lucrative fields like engineering and computer science, women only account for roughly 20% of college majors. While the…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. The Small Business Optimism Index from the National Federation of Independent Business is trending upward as we begin 2025. Still, small businesses continue to face nationwide challenges from rising operational costs to supply chain disruptions to wage pressures. Unpredictable inflation and fluctuating interest rates remain a major…
