Our Blog

Dave’s Hot Chicken continues to bring the heat. The chain opened its 500th restaurant in Phoenix on October 8, according to Food & Beverage Magazine. Those are impressive numbers for a business three childhood friends launched in 2017 with $900, portable fryers and folding tables in an East Hollywood parking lot. Wetzel’s Pretzels co-founder Bill […]

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways When customers complain, better messaging isn’t always the answer. Recurring complaints can reveal problems that no marketing campaign can fix. When the same complaint keeps appearing, marketers should ask: Are we failing to deliver the promise, or are we making the wrong promise? Reviews, social […]

Tide Rock CEO Ryan Peddycord shares the principles that shaped his career and the no-debt private equity strategy most firms keep to themselves. By Trent Bryson | edited by Maria Bailey | Oct 13, 2026 Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Ryan Peddycord is the CEO and founder of Tide Rock, an evergreen […]

Key Takeaways Antima Jain and Pooja Choudhary met 11 years ago through a mutual friend at a party in Minnesota. They were both immigrants from India, had a lot in common and lived three minutes away from each other. They ultimately pooled their personal funds to open their own Color Me Mine paint-your-own pottery studio franchise […]

Nothing to worry about over here, just the fact that the people building AI are preparing for it to go badly wrong, very soon. Axios reports that top executives at Anthropic, OpenAI and other AI companies are privately planning for a public and political backlash after a catastrophic AI event. Many insiders expect this to […]

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Before you respond to a bad performance review, stop and really listen to what your manager is saying. You can listen without agreeing to everything in the review. Assess your company’s review culture; do they prioritize development after a poor review, or is it the […]

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Late customer payments and fixed payroll dates can turn a small cash gap into a serious problem within weeks. A great business with no cash behind it is like a car with an empty tank. No matter how good it is, it isn’t going anywhere. […]

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Many founders make the mistake of hiring a senior leader before the infrastructure exists to support it. They expect the leader to produce results off of a strategy that doesn’t exist yet. Read the signs before you hire: no repeatable way leads or customers come in, the […]

Anyone can invest in real estate. You don’t need a fancy degree, a big bank account, or a high-paying job to get started. Arden Williams and his then-girlfriend were both making just $12 an hour when they bought their first house. How did they do it? They got uncomfortable, slashed their expenses, and threw every […]