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The model wears a faded denim jumpsuit that hugs her curves like slalom skis. She’s tugging at the zipper that goes up the front. And the photo of her appears on the Instagram page for fashion brand Good American, where it garnered more than 3,000 li

David Droga is a CEO. But for a long time, he chose to go by a different title: Creative Chairman. This wasn’t one of those cutesy titles, like Chief Fun Officer, that founders and CEOs have been giving themselves for years. To Droga, the title remin

WHAT DOES productivity mean to you? Like, literally? What does it mean for you to have a productive day? Here’s my answer, which is typical: “Productivity” means I complete a list of tasks. That’s because I organize my day around my to-do list, and I

Kristina Saffran nearly died during her freshman year of high school. She had anorexia nervosa, considered one of the most fatal mental health disorders, and was in and out of the hospital as doctors struggled to find a solution. It was a family-base

Everything I do today in business can be traced back to lessons I learned when starting my first company at the age of 13. That’s why I still hang on to my first uniform: an oversized yellow Tommy Bahama shirt emblazoned with an orange and black logo

Do you like getting somewhere first? Introducing new things to the world? Then you’ll love this list—because we’ve rounded up the strongest emerging franchises in the industry, all of which are looking for franchisees to join them on a big new advent

“That’s highly misleading. I have always done what I love, and that’s enabled me to build competitive brands and businesses. But it’s hard work. Managing a team or a process or a business does not come easy. I think the nuanced version of this would

Elaine Weir is retired, which means that—apart from the swimming lessons she teaches a few times a week—she has a lot of time on her hands. So in the summer of 2019, when she saw a Facebook ad for the geothermal energy company Dandelion, she called t

When franchisors look to expand, they don’t just think domestic. They increasingly think global. For evidence, just look at the 1,321 brands that applied for Entrepreneur’s 2023 Franchise 500 ranking. Among all of them, international unit growth outp

Walk into any hip startup and what’s the one word you’ll hear echoing across the cubicles and over the Keurig despite best efforts to rein in its use? No, it doesn’t rhyme with luck or hit. This one rhymes with hike and should be wildly familiar to a

Need a good business partner? Zain Attawala and Sagar Panjwani have advice: Don’t just focus on your strengths. Acknowledge your weaknesses, too—and know how your partner balances you out. “That’s where I think the majority of the people fail: They d

At some point in their career, every worker has probably thought: I wish I were the boss. In franchising, people often achieve that dream. They might start as a cashier, manager, or in some role at the corporate office, and then rise up to buy a unit

We’ve all seen those charts showing “hockey-stick growth.” They are the envy of entrepreneurs who haven’t found it, and among the most important moments in a company’s history for those who have. Hockey-stick growth tells a story: A company was slowl

Alli Webb was still in the trenches at Drybar—the blowout salon company she cofounded with her brother Michael Landau in 2010—when she had her next big idea. It was just an inkling at first. But by the time they sold Drybar’s product line in 2020 for