On the heels of the UFC announcing their upcoming $7.7 billion rights deal with Paramount, Dana White was bound to be hit with questions about what the new agreement will mean for the promotion’s future as well as the fighters. During the post-event presser following the first episode of the new season of Dana White’s Contender Series, White made one thing clear: “Bonuses are obviously going up. That’ll be big.” Here is the clip. White is referring to the fighter bonuses that have traditionally been set at $50,000 for each of the two Performance of the Night winners and another…
Venture investors are adapting to the times, and are increasingly open to working with Al technologies and investing in both new and emerging sectors such as longevity and wellness, areas of the global economy which have seen over 75% more funding in 2023 and projected to reach $8 trillion by…
Being an entrepreneur means experiencing a range of emotions, sometimes in quick succession: there’s frustration, inspiration, exhaustion, glee, satisfaction, anger, excitement, despair — to name a few. It’s a rollercoaster.Success hinges on being able to manage those feelings, and not letting them unbalance the even keel needed to keep going…
Most games set in the cities of the future are cyberpunk in nature. They see cities as brutal dystopian fortresses. But the latest release from Darrington Press sees cities as an important part of the process to make our world to a better place. Solar Gardens puts the concept of…
This Side Hustle Spotlight Q&A features 35-year-old New York City-based entrepreneur Mehek Khera. Khera is the founder and CEO of Niramaya Foods, a snack brand “rooted in wellness and inspired by Indian heritage.”At the age of 24, Khera left New Delhi, India and immigrated to the U.S., where she landed…
On every episode of How Success Happens, I get to talk to incredible people who have done incredible things despite the many roadblocks and risks entrepreneurs face.This week, I spoke with Kim Perell, a nine-time founder, best-selling author, investor in 100+ companies, and a proud mom of four.If you’re a…
“To them, it doesn’t really matter who ultimately succeeds,” says Sam Abuelsamid, who writes about the self-driving-vehicle industry and is the vice president of marketing at Telemetry, a Michigan research firm. “If you’ve got a car that works and can drive safely, you’re welcome to come onto Uber and provide…
In today’s column, I provide GPT-5 prompt engineering tips and techniques that will aid in getting the best outcomes when using this newly released generative AI. I’m sure that just about everyone by now knows that OpenAI finally released GPT-5, doing so after a prolonged period of immense and wildly…
When it comes to raising capital, too many startup founders chase investors before building something worth investing in. I’ve been on both sides of the conversation, as an entrepreneur raising funds and as an advisor helping founders position themselves for growth. The venture capital world doesn’t reward effort. It rewards…
“The first big mistake that people make is thinking that happiness is a feeling,” Arthur Brooks, professor at Harvard Business School and author of the forthcoming book The Happiness Files: Insights on Work and Life, says.Image Credit: Jenny Sherman Photography. Arthur Brooks. On the first day of class, Brooks asks…
US President Donald Trump just dealt another blow to the embattled ecommerce industry, which is still reeling from sweeping tariffs Trump announced in the spring. On Wednesday, Trump signed an executive order widening the impact of those tariffs and making it more expensive for Americans to buy foreign products on…
Google says it’s working to fix a glitch that has sent its large language model Gemini on an alarming spree of self-loathing. “This is an annoying infinite looping bug we are working to fix,” Logan Kirkpatrick, product lead for Google’s AI studio and the Gemini API, posted to X on…
Perl was once everywhere. Or at least it felt that way. Around the turn of the millennium, it seemed that almost every website was built on the back of this scripting language. It processed massive amounts of text—mechanisms for doing this powerfully and easily were part of the language—and it…
Leather basques and fishnet stockings at the ready, everyone: Timeless musical classic The Rocky Horror Picture Show turns 50 this year, and Disney is planning to celebrate this latest milestone in the life of the longest-running theatrical film release in cinema history with an extended series of events that Frank-N-Further…
An unprecedented shift is reshaping the foundations of global finance. Cryptocurrencies are gaining greater acceptance in Washington, with President Donald Trump establishing a strategic bitcoin reserve and signing the GENIUS Act. Meanwhile, state treasuries are adding bitcoin to their balance sheets, and public companies are holding a growing portion of…
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