Key Takeaways Leopold wanted to build a regenerative cookie brand with a taste that appeals to consumers. She raised about $700,000 to get Joy Supply off the ground earlier this year. The business drew rapid inbound interest and is expanding its retail presence. This as-told-to story is based on a conversation with Lindsay Leopold, founder of Brooklyn, New York-based crispy oat cookie brand Joy Supply, which uses regeneratively farmed U.S. ingredients. Joy Supply launched in May 2026 and did about $20,000 in pre-launch sales in month one. Currently, the brand is available at Nordstrom’s holiday market, Westside Market, Big Night…
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ASIA: The major Asian stock markets had a mixed day today: • NIKKEI 225 increased 685.82 points or 1.08% to 63,954.19 • Shanghai increased 33.168 points or 0.91% to 3,681.469 • Hang Seng increased 53.51 points or 0.23% to 23,094.83 • ASX 200 decreased 2.80 points or -0.03% to 8,847.30 • SENSEX decreased 352.64 points or -0.48% to 73,246.03 • Nifty50 decreased 50.90 points or -0.22% to 22,698.85 The major Asian currency markets had a mixed day today: • AUDUSD increased 0.00139 or 0.20% to 0.70392 • NZDUSD decreased 0.00592 or -1.04% to 0.56228 • USDJPY increased 0.264 or 0.17%…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Recognition feels satisfying until it becomes the only measure of whether a win counts. Founders are prone to keep arguing with old critics long after customers have already answered the question and proved the critics wrong. Ambition is useful, but building your life around someone else’s approval is expensive. In the 1880s, Gustave Eiffel was already one of France’s best-known engineers. He had built railway bridges, viaducts, stations and other large iron structures across Europe. His company had developed a reputation for doing things that seemed difficult, expensive or slightly…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Customer acquisition isn’t a volume problem; it’s a targeting problem, and most businesses are solving the wrong one. Your first-time buyer, repeat buyer and best customer are three different people, so stop marketing to them as one. Study your best customers, not your most recent ones. That pattern is the start of a real targeting model. When I started VeraData in 2007, I thought I understood customer acquisition. I had studied the models, understood the data, and believed that if you built something genuinely useful, the right people would find…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Video content helps businesses build trust and establish authority while improving visibility across traditional search engines, voice assistants and AI-powered search tools. Use descriptive titles, clear descriptions and transcripts to help search engines and AI tools find, understand and potentially recommend your content. Repurpose YouTube videos into short-form social media clips and embed them on website landing pages to increase engagement, reach more customers and support business growth. When business leaders talk about search, this translates to Google text ads or traditional SEO. User behavior, though, has quietly shifted. Consumers aren’t just typing…
South Korea on Wednesday fined Alphabet’s Google and Apple a combined 63.7 billion won ($47.6 million), saying they abused their dominance in app store markets by forcing local developers onto their own payment systems and by unfairly delaying app reviews.The Korea Media and Communications Commission, the country’s media and telecommunications regulator, spent years investigating the U.S. tech giants for allegedly violating a 2021 law that prohibits app store operators from forcing developers to use specific payment systems.The commission fined Google 42.9 billion won ($32 million) and Apple 20.8 billion won ($15.5 million) and ordered both companies to let South Korean…
On a quiet Monday evening, 42-year-old Igor Aguiar decided to give his 75-inch Amazon Fire TV a much-needed—and pointedly pious—facelift. Ninety minutes and a handful of AI prompts later, he sat back to admire his handiwork. The TV’s original home screen, once dotted with movie recommendations and toilet paper ads, was gone. In its place sat a sleek, colorful replacement launcher with shortcuts to his most-used apps and, more crucially, a breakdown of the day’s significance in the Catholic liturgical calendar. “I needed something more useful to me,” he tells me. “That’s kind of why I said, OK, let me…
The Federal Reserve is expected to stand pat on interest rates Wednesday even though inflation has accelerated in the past couple of months as the Iran war has caused spikes in oil and gas prices.The Fed’s latest policy meeting concludes less than a week before the midterm elections, which have focused heavily on concerns about the cost of living and affordability. Consumers have generally soured on an economy weighed down by more expensive gas, groceries, and clothing, among other items.The Fed, led by Chairman Kevin Warsh, wants to return inflation to its 2% target, which it typically does by raising…
Susan Bailey still vividly remembers the first time she hosted a family in need of emergency housing. It was 2017, and she had just renovated a property near her home in Colorado with the idea of adding it to her growing portfolio of Airbnb rentals. One evening, she got a call out of the blue from someone at Airbnb Open Homes, as Airbnb’s program for housing people in crisis was then known. “It was eight o’clock on a Thursday night,” Bailey says. Airbnb asked if she would be willing to welcome a refugee family from Iraq, arriving at midnight. That…
Chocolate might not be able to solve all of the world’s problems, but it certainly improves them, even if the effects are just temporary. Since today (Wednesday October 28, 2026) is National Chocolate Day, it is the perfect excuse to indulge in a sweet treat or two. This selfless act will stimulate the economy and spread joy. Before all that, let’s learn a thing or two about cacao. Then we will dive into the deals. A brief history of chocolate The ancient Olmec, Maya, and Aztec people all valued chocolate. Chocolate started out not as a sweet candy bar but…