In 1996, Kim Malek, CEO and co-founder with her cousin Tyler Malek of craft ice cream company Salt & Straw, dreamed of opening an ice cream shop in Portland, Oregon. “When I moved here, I was struck by the experience of literally meeting people on the street who became some of my closest friends,” Kim...
Women drive 70%-80% of consumer purchasing, and companies with at least one woman on their board have a higher return on equity than those that do not, the Women on Boards Project states on its website — yet women occupy just 20% of board seats globally and aren’t expected to reach gender parity for decades,...
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. “I launched holiCHIC back in 2015 before it became the ‘cool’ thing to do,” says Megha Rao, founder of holiCHIC. “I never found what I was looking for in stores: the mixing and matching of a traditional Indian wardrobe with my modern American outfits. Because pairing a...
Advait Shinde, co-founder and former CEO of educational software company GoGuardian, spent a decade building a business that optimizes digital learning experiences at scale — all the way to a $1 billion valuation. It began in 2014 when Shinde and his co-founders Aza Steel, R. Todd Mackey and Tyler Shaddix “accidentally timed the market perfectly,”...
Netflix updated its 15-year-old code on company culture on Monday. Unlike the original 125-page slide deck the company popularized in 2009, the new version is a lot shorter — but that doesn’t mean it’s any less important, according to co-CEO Greg Peters. One major change was to the company’s famous “keeper test,” which is a...
“I’m the little boy who loved to draw, who never grew up,” Reginald Adams, professional artist and founder of Houston-based public art and design firm Reginald C. Adams LLC, tells Entrepreneur. “And thanks to an incredibly supportive family, I’ve always been encouraged to do what I loved.” As Adams entered his teenage years and added...
In this ongoing series, we are sharing advice, tips and insights from real entrepreneurs who are out there doing business battle on a daily basis. (Answers have been edited and condensed for clarity.) Jeni Castro is the founder of Coffee Dose, an eclectic cafe with five locations in Orange County, California. Read on to learn...