Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Asking questions is a leadership advantage, not a weakness. Pausing to get input from your team surfaces risks and gaps you can’t see on your own. Four types of questions sharpen decisions. Foundation, practical, perspective and alignment questions bring clarity, expose problems early, widen your view and build commitment. Early in building my venture fund, I made a mistake many founders make: I worked alone and rushed decisions.Even after I built a team, I would walk into a meeting, feel like I understood the opportunity and start connecting the dots…
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France is burning again, and at some point we have to stop pretending this is normal. As many as 500 high schools are closed or partially closed because the government cannot guarantee their security. Twenty-four schools have reportedly been burned or ransacked and 78 education employees injured. In Paris, hooded individuals piled combustible material against the entrance of a school and set it on fire. When masked thugs are setting schools on fire, you are watching the breakdown of civil society. The radical left has helped turn legitimate frustration into another excuse for confrontation with the state. What began with…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Build the room before the audience. Go deep with a small circle of mentors and peers who understand what’s being built and believe in it, then go wide. Let community shape the product. Structure the earliest version of the business around a smaller group’s actual problems, then let the product follow. Measure relationships, not reach. Ask yourself, “Are you creating value for the people who trust you, or extracting it?” Build systems that scale beyond you. Systems like delegation, institutional memory and planning on a longer horizon keep the business…
Key Takeaways A new Goldman Sachs study found that high income does not guarantee financial security. It showed that more than a third of households making over $300,000 said they were living paycheck to paycheck. Workers making $100,000 to $300,000 reported less strain than both lower-income earners and those making above $300,000. Even America’s highest earners are feeling financially stuck. More than a third of people making over $300,000 say they are living paycheck to paycheck, according to Goldman Sachs Asset Management’s recent 2026 retirement report. Goldman Sachs based the research on a July 2026 survey of 5,106 U.S. adults,…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Dr. Darshan Shah’s own health problems inspired him to rethink how doctors approach preventive healthcare He founded Next Health to create a medical experience that people would actually want to return to. Will patients visit physical clinics at a time when much of healthcare is moving online? When Dr. Darshan Shah, a board-certified surgeon, set out to create a different kind of medical clinic, he took out a whiteboard and made a list of everything people hate about going to the doctor. Bad parking. Old furniture. A grumpy person at…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways If you are waiting until your content is better, your following is larger or your business is more polished before you pursue collaboration, stop waiting. The businesses that win on social media are not always the ones with the most followers or the biggest budgets. They are the ones willing to build real relationships with other trusted businesses and let those relationships introduce them to a whole new audience. A client came to me not long ago with a problem that looked simple on the surface. Her business was good.…
Key Takeaways After exiting the Subway partnership, Hero Bread focused on five SKUs. The brand pivoted to DTC, then explored different retail channels. Now, it’s navigating what the CEO calls the third chapter in its DTC playbook. In 2022, when YuChiang Cheng invested in Hero Bread on behalf of 444 Capital and stepped in as the company’s interim chief marketing officer, the low-carb, zero-sugar brand was at a critical crossroads. Image Credit: Courtesy of Hero Bread. YuChiang Cheng. Cole Glass had founded the company in 2019 to address his severe food allergies related to pollen. By October 2021, a partnership…
Prices have outpaced paychecks since March, but Americans haven’t stopped spending, Bloomberg reports. One trick making the rounds is the “double fill up.” Elizabeth Gentile, 61, and her husband park two cars on opposite sides of a pump at their Atlanta-area Kroger. When one tank is full, they hand the nozzle to the other driver. It counts as one transaction, so both cars get the store’s discount of up to $1 a gallon. That adds up with gas averaging more than $4 nationwide. The couple explains the move to anyone waiting. “So far everyone has understood,” Gentile tells Bloomberg. Others…
ASIA: The major Asian stock markets had a green day today: • NIKKEI 225 increased 1,637.40 points or 2.40% to 69,946.86 • Shanghai closed • Hang Seng increased 68.05 points or 0.28% to 24,040.34 • ASX 200 increased 4.30 points or 0.05% to 8,686.40 • SENSEX increased 472.77 points or 0.66% to 72,382.47 • Nifty50 increased 133.80 points or 0.60% to 22,555.75 The major Asian currency markets had a mixed day today: • AUDUSD increased 0.00125 or 0.18% to 0.69696 • NZDUSD decreased 0.00208 or -0.37% to 0.55932 • USDJPY increased 0.211 or 0.13% to 158.067 • USDCNY decreased 0.00177…
Crumbl was hot out of the oven in the post-pandemic era, but a series of missteps has the cookie chain going stale. CEO Jason McGowan is owning it. “The buck stops with me,” he told franchisees last week, Restaurant Business reports. “It’s my fault where we are today.” An internal document obtained by the outlet shows August sales were 70% lower than two years earlier. Placer.ai data shows foot traffic at Crumbl’s more than 1,000 locations fell 32% year over year. At least 57 stores have closed this year, and the company recently laid off much of its franchise support…