At some point or other, all entrepreneurs face a fair share of challenges in their business. And when the initiative is e-commerce, things become even more tricky. The world of e-commerce has its unique set of challenges.

The number of companies that have started to value their impact over profits is growing. This is a huge change from past generations when profits were all that mattered even if it came at the expense of the environment.

Most of my readers are business owners who are heavily reliant on their biz websites to generate sales and leads.

Writer, teacher and business visionary Peter Drucker once pointed out that, “Company cultures are like country cultures. Never try to change one. Try, instead, to work with what you've got.”

Retail is a multi-trillion dollar industry in the United States. In 2017, total sales hit a new high of $5.7 trillion dollars, according to the U.S. Census. This was better than the pre-recession high of $4.4 trillion dollars in 2007 and also represents a 42 percent increase from the low of $4.06 trillion dollars in 2009.

Uber is valued at $72 billion.

“Startuppers of the world, unite! And hire researchers!"Most of people look at academia and startups as two completely different worlds; one concerning with universities labs, conferences and papers, while the other thriving with exits, marketing and pitches.

Do you have a following of users, but they just aren’t engaging with you? Are they losing interest, and you don’t know how to keep them loyal? To keep people hooked on your website or platform, you might want to consider gamification, which BunchBall defines as, “the process of taking something that already exists—a website, an enterprise application, an online community—and integrating game mechanics into it to motivate participation, engagement, and loyalty. Here are ways to use it:

Almost every bootstrapped (early-stage) startup is missing one crucial component: a board of directors. The good news? This is completely normal. But don’t be fooled into believing your company is too young or too small to start building a board.

Forget about unicorns and billion-dollar ideas for a moment.

It’s a tough time to be a mobile app developer. According to Gartner, less than 0.01 percent of all consumer mobile apps will become financially successful throughout 2018—yet apps continue to be a common development goal and product focus for new and aspiring entrepreneurs.