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Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Do you remember the time when Netflix was a DVD rental service that delivered DVDs to your home? You would be forgiven for thinking of those years as the distant past, but the company only switched its business model from delivery to streaming in 2007.In just under two decades, subscription services have changed the way people shop, play and work. Businesses are also taking advantage of subscription services. As we head for the middle of 2025, though, the subscription economy is showing signs of yet another shift as it expands beyond digital…

Nvidia, the world’s leading manufacturer of AI chips, and the most valuable company in the world with a $4.2 trillion market cap, announced on Thursday that it will invest $5 billion in competitor Intel, which has a comparatively lower ($144.8 billion) market value. The investment gives Nvidia a 4% stake in Intel.The deal requires that Nvidia and Intel work together to create chips for personal computers and data centers. Intel’s specialty is central processing units, or chips that act as the brain of a computer, handling different general-purpose tasks. Nvidia, on the other hand, focuses on making graphics processing units…

Indian construction materials platform Infra.Market secured Rs 732 crore ($83 million) in fresh funding as the company prepares for a public listing.The Series G round was led by Nikhil Kamath’s family office, NKSquared, with a Rs 200-crore investment. Silverline Homes, a company associated with co-founder Aaditya Sharda, contributed Rs 250 crore, making it the largest check in the financing round. Tiger Global also participated with a Rs 176 crore commitment through its Internet Fund vehicle. Existing investors Accel, Evolvence India, and Nexus Ventures joined the round with smaller contributions.Both founders, Souvik Sengupta and Aaditya Sharda, raised promoter financing to inject…

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Nothing beats the human touch of a helpful salesperson, right?Wrong.For so long, retailers have been told that what sets brick-and-mortar apart is the “human element.” But a landmark new survey shows exactly the opposite: roughly half of younger consumers prefer a shopping experience that lets them avoid other people. Convenience and efficiency loom large here: more than three-quarters of Gen Z and millennial shoppers regularly choose online purchases and curbside or in-store pickup. All of which raises the existential question: Why do we even have stores anymore, anyway?The answer isn’t quite as…

Spirit Airlines announced some dispiriting news for travelers and company employees: it will cut 25% of its flight capacity in November 2025 and brace for further job cuts.After declaring its second bankruptcy in less than a year earlier this month, CEO Dave Davis revealed the news in a memo to employees on Wednesday, emphasizing that the reductions are necessary for the company to focus on its more profitable markets.”These evaluations will inevitably affect the size of our teams as we become a more efficient airline. Unfortunately, these are the tough calls we must make to emerge stronger,” Davis wrote. Related:…

Disclosure: Our goal is to feature products and services that we think you’ll find interesting and useful. If you purchase them, Entrepreneur may get a small share of the revenue from the sale from our commerce partners. In business, communication is currency. Whether you’re onboarding a supplier from Vietnam, pitching to a client in Germany, or expanding into Latin America, being able to speak even a little of your partner’s language goes a long way toward building trust. But hiring translators or relying on those free apps (limited abilities + ads) at every turn isn’t exactly efficient.That’s why more business…

Speaking at an event in Kolkata on Thursday, September 18, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said that while the government has moved to rationalise Goods and Services Tax (GST) slabs, the country is “not yet” prepared for a single-rate GST system, though it remains a possibility in the future.She underlined that the four-rate GST structure of 5, 12, 18, and 28% was not arbitrarily fixed, but arrived at through a detailed exercise of aligning diverse state-level taxes with the nearest slabs.”When a review of GST was undertaken, one of the needs identified was that they (GST Council members) didn’t want…

Michael Sindicich compares his journey from pre-med student to account executive to the president of the business travel platform Navan to driving a car. “When you’re a kid in the passenger seat, it looks effortless when your parents just stay in the lanes,” he told Entrepreneur. “But once you start to learn to drive and actually get behind the wheel, you realize how fickle and borderless lanes actually are, and how easy it can be to mess up. Leadership is the same.”Here, Sindicich shares his best advice for personal and business growth — from finding your true calling to connecting…

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. “We need 1,000 leads — are we on target?”It seems like a simple business question, but for many teams, arriving at an answer requires hours of digging through manual files and spreadsheets, piecing together data from individual systems and uncovering where information exists across siloed departments.It’s not only about finding the right data and bringing it together — knowing whether a team is on track toward its goals takes analysis to understand what the data actually means. This requires a level of expertise and training that most employees, outside of data scientists,…

Mumbai is home to 1.42 lakh millionaire households, more than Delhi and Bengaluru combined, underscoring the city’s enduring dominance as India’s financial capital, according to the Mercedes-Benz Hurun India Wealth Report 2025.The financial hub continues to tower over other Indian cities in wealth concentration. Maharashtra, India’s richest state, accounts for 1.78 lakh millionaire households, nearly a fifth of the national total, with Mumbai contributing close to four out of five. The number has surged 194% since 2021, reflecting both the strength of the state’s economy and the scale of Mumbai’s financial ecosystem.The city’s position is reinforced by its role as…