Analysis and practical reporting for founders, operators, and innovators building durable businesses. Explore growth strategy, business models, funding, technology, and the decisions that turn new ideas into lasting companies.
Analysis and practical reporting for founders, operators, and innovators building durable businesses. Explore growth strategy, business models, funding, technology, and the decisions that turn new ideas into lasting companies.
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Olorin co-founder and CEO Karianne Klomp is launching a premium ocular wellness protocol, driven by her family’s experience with illness and vision loss.
Walk into almost any long-running family business — the machine shop, the dental practice, the restaurant that has been in the same spot for thirty years — and ask the owner where their money actually is. A surprising number will tell you the same thing: the business pays the bills, but the building is what…
There is a particular kind of founder who does not leave a good career for a better one. They leave it for something that does not exist yet, something they cannot yet prove will work, often for a problem most people had learned to stop noticing. Their pivot is not toward a bigger market. It…
The gap between running one location and running two is where most franchise plans quietly stall. A single store rewards the founder’s constant presence: the owner is on the floor, catching problems before they become patterns. The second location removes that presence from at least one building at all times, and everything the owner was…
