Blog & Articles

"When it comes to building wealth, growing your net worth is half the battle. Building lasting wealth involves creating a plan for how it will be transferred and passed down to the next generation. This is known as generational wealth."

--Ivana Pino

"As a young, black entrepreneur with few industry contacts, Timothy Armoo, 27 has more than beaten the odds to raise investment, scale and then sell his start-up."

--Dougal Shaw

"The fastest way to reach massive success and having a lot of money is by normalizing it around you."

--Bertrand Ngampa

"It can be challenging to gain traction on Instagram; after all, it takes hours of personal time investment to connect with the right users, and I hope they follow you back. Some people decide to buy Instagram followers, but this may not always be the best choice."

--Parwinder Singh

"Cryptocurrency and the blockchain have made their way into many industries. And as more and more of our lives move into the digital arena, the ways in which we buy and sell products are continually changing. Real estate is seeing its own shift toward the blockchain with the creation of nonfungible tokens that represent physical properties. This technology is sure to have a dramatic impact on the future of commercial real estate."

--Aviva Sonenreich

"Consumers and marketers alike have noticed a significant upward trend in video content over the last few years, but what does this trend look like practically? A recent report by Hubspot sheds light on some key figures: 85% of businesspeople use video as a marketing tool, up from 61% just five years ago. "

--Kimberly Zhang

"Real estate sales picked up in the final months of 2020, but not enough to make up for the shutdown in the early months of the pandemic."

--Max Freedman

"What does it mean to be an entrepreneur? It's more than being a business owner; it's a perspective and a lifestyle."

--Max Freedman

"An antibody isolated from a patient who recovered from the 2003 SARS outbreak has lead researchers to better understand the nature of how coronaviruses invade the human body, and how our immune systems attack it."

--Jesse Smith

"Work-life balance is often an accurate barometer for both physical and emotional health. Gone are the punchcard days of the first half of the 20th century and the strict 9-to-5 office regimen of the early baby boomer generation."

--Jennifer Spencer

"Throughout my adult life, I’ve always struggled with saving and developing a budget for myself. A budget is easy to make, but difficult to follow. At one point in my life, I had $50,000 in debt, mostly attributable to student loans. The issue was that because I was bringing in money through internships and full-time positions, I thought I would be able to pay them off in no time."

--Pendora (Top Medium Writer)

"How much time do you spend “should”-ing your way through life? It’s easy to internalize goals and dreams, but following through is often unattainable. Why? We want more from our lives, our careers and our influence, but many fall short of our goals. It’s not that we don’t truly want to reach them, but rather that we aren’t willing to raise our standards enough to create real, lasting change."

--Stacey Hanke

"Making seven figures in 2020 and beyond this decade is not impossible. There are rapidly growing industries and technological advances, and plenty of individuals and businesses will experience growth and financial gain. Remember these habits and strategies to help you attain financial freedom."

--Jennifer Spencer

Influence comes from how others experience you. Their perceptions of your trustworthiness, credibility, confidence, knowledge, authenticity and passion stem from how they see you in day-to-day interactions, not just high-stakes situations. If people consistently have a positive experience with you, they are likely to take your recommendations and act on what you have to say.

--Stacey Hanke

Entrepreneurship is not a destination; it’s a journey. On this journey, successful entrepreneurs don't have an expectation of “arriving” to some finish line. If you do have that expectation, you won’t continue to push yourself to step outside of your comfort and grow. You won’t seek out the things that truly help your business experience explosive results because all those things require you stretching yourself.

--Kimanzi Constable

“I think the biggest mistake people make is once they have an idea and the goal of starting a business, they think they have to raise money,” Cuban said. “Once you raise money, that’s not an accomplishment, that’s an obligation. Now you’re reporting to whoever you raised money from.”

--Stacey Hanke

"There are more than 148 million online articles around the habits of highly successful individuals. Most of these articles focus on the psychological aspects of their habits, not necessarily the biochemical basis for why they’re a peak performer in the first place. This makes the assumption that, biochemically, we're all on the same level as people like Tony Robbins, the Dalai Lama or even Richard Branson, and that if you were to apply these habits in your daily life, you would get similar outcomes. But there are flaws in this thinking."

--Ben Angel