Most business advice flows one way, from older founders to younger ones. Maverick1000 has reversed it. Every year, Maverick NEXT, an under-30 community network of entrepreneurs, investors and exited founders curated by Yanik Silver and Sophia Umanski, spends a week on Necker Island with Sir Richard Branson, sharing the insights and tactics that have allowed them to outgrow businesses run by people twice their age. If you’re under 30, you could join them. The Maverick NEXT Impact Award sends five founders to the British Virgin Islands each year, all expenses paid. If you feel like you belong in a group…
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Brandon Wilhelm wanted to see Hangry Joe’s for himself before anyone knew he was there. So the Subway veteran, who spent nearly two decades developing franchise territory across the Midwest, arrived in Virginia a day before meeting the hot chicken franchise’s leadership and quietly tried several of its restaurants, according to QSR. He says it was “the best chicken sandwich I ever had.” He went on to become a multi-unit franchisee, equity investor and board member. He also served as the chain’s acting chief marketing officer. On Oct. 6, he took over as CEO. Founded in 2021, Hangry Joe’s now…
ASIA: The major Asian stock markets had a mixed day today: • NIKKEI 225 decreased 841.28 points or -1.30% to 64,075.42 • Shanghai increased 4.45 points or 0.12% to 3,735.37 • Hang Seng decreased 319.09 points or -1.32% to 23,867.74 • ASX 200 decreased 28.80 points or -0.33% to 8,816.90 • SENSEX closed • Nifty50 closed The major Asian currency markets had a mixed day today: • AUDUSD increased 0.00205 or 0.29% to 0.70002 • NZDUSD increased 0.00186 or 0.33% to 0.56826 • USDJPY decreased 0.324 or -0.20% to 158.174 • USDCNY decreased 0.00716 or -0.11% to 6.67489 The above…
Key Takeaways Wealthy employers are increasingly turning to nondisclosure agreements (NDAs). The purpose is to keep household staff who maintain their homes and run their lives from talking publicly about life behind closed doors. Demand for NDAs has increased tremendously over the past decade, especially in the past five years. If you’re working for the rich, keeping house now means keeping secrets. According to a recent report from The New York Times, nondisclosure agreements (NDAs), which were once associated mainly with business deals, are increasingly becoming a condition of working in wealthy households. Employers are requiring staff like butlers, tutors…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Show up in people’s lives before they need you, and customers and talented hires will come to you. Prove a single location works before you open a second one. Letting go of perfect is what lets a business grow. Running 650 collision repair locations would seem to leave little time for hosting a podcast, especially one whose return Matt Ebert can’t put on a spreadsheet. But Ebert has found reasons to keep recording. The Crash Champions leader explained why podcasting has become part of how he builds relationships with customers…
QUESTION: Why do you say there is a time bomb ticking in Alberta? Jeff ANSWER: Separatist movements globally typically have economic demands; they usually also involve religious, linguistic, or nationalist factors. However, some separatist movements emerge for economic reasons. We saw that in the US Civil War, when the South seceded. That was all about economics, where they cited the slavery issue and eliminating their workforce. Keep in mind that this was about 50 years before the invention of farm machinery. The “glue” holding Alberta within Canada is primarily the clear mainstream public opinion of Alberta residents and their emotional attachment…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways A successful pilot can be misleading if it was protected from the conditions it was meant to solve. Improvements made under favorable conditions may not hold when they move into the wider organization. Rollouts can expose constraints that pilots never tested. Existing approval paths, competing priorities and limited access to decision-makers can slow progress and create costly rework. Pushing harder on execution misreads the shortfall as weak implementation, when the real issue is that the process was never tested under the enterprise’s normal approval conditions. A large company tested a…
Albertans voted overwhelmingly to remain in Canada in the October 20, 2026 referendum, with over 76% supporting the option for Alberta to stay a province of Canada. This outcome reflects a serious problem that will explode in the coming years. Alberta’s grievances with federal policies will now get much worse. The Alberta separatist movement has gained attention in recent years, driven by frustrations over federal energy policies and perceived inequities in resource distribution. Alberta has long felt marginalized by federal decisions, particularly regarding its oil and gas industry. The movement has fluctuated in popularity, with some polls indicating significant…
A move announced by the software-as-a-service giant Salesforce (NYSE: CRM) is sending the stock price of a relatively unknown AI marketing firm surging this morning. Here’s what you need to know. What’s happened? On Tuesday morning, Salesforce announced plans to acquire digital marketing firm Braze (Nasdaq: BRZE) for about $5.66 billion. According to the terms of the deal, Salesforce will pay Braze Class A common stockholders $47.50 in cash per share. Braze’s AI-powered multichannel marketing solutions will be integrated into Salesforce’s core offerings, which Salesforce believes will give it an edge with its enterprise solutions. This is especially true at…
A former OpenAI engineer charged with secretly installing a recording device in a conference room to glean company details had been “mere days” away from absconding to Saudi Arabia before his arrest last week, federal prosecutors revealed in new court filings.Abdulrahman Alfozan’s wife and young son also left the country the day after the 35-year-old Saudi national’s arrest, traveling on a one-way ticket booked and paid for by a Saudi military official, prosecutors said in a memo Sunday seeking his continued detention.“Ultimately, the defendant has little incentive to remain in the United States to see this case through,” federal prosecutors…