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Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways If you are not rooted in something real, you are just another option. Long-term success depends on evolving beyond the founder. By turning employees into owners, they built a system that creates wealth, not just locations. Eddie Flores Jr. is the founder and CEO of L&L Hawaiian Barbecue. But he does not talk about Hawaii as if it were a theme. He talks about it as if it were the business. From the beginning, Flores Jr. understood something most operators miss. You are not just selling food. You are selling…

Engineering is one of the most male-dominated workforces in America. As of 2023, only 16% of all engineers in the U.S. were women. Marketing, meanwhile, is an industry led by women: Though it has a more even split, the field still employs more women than men, with 60% of marketing roles in the U.S. being held by women. But a phenomenon in new job listings has some experts wondering if marketing is undergoing a reinvention—one designed to make it a more enticing field for men. The discourse began when brand consultant Miranda Shanahan pointed out a trend she’s noticed on…

Key Takeaways After Morales’s mobility changed in 2020, the inaccessibility of luxury travel surprised her. A life-long trip planner, Morales joined Fora as a travel advisor and spearheaded its accessibility initiative. The business pillar now boasts over 300 travel advisors and $75 million in bookings in less than a year. “Traveling and being a planner has been part of my identity my whole life,” Karen Morales tells Entrepreneur. Growing up, Morales plotted trips to Disney World; as an adult, she architected bachelorette trips and company travel during a career in advertising. But in 2020, Morales’s perspective on planning her travel…

The bling is back, but the Iran war has tarnished the outlook for the luxury watch industry — the ultimate in opulence. Starting Tuesday, Geneva hosts the annual Watches and Wonders fair, a premiere gathering in an industry eager for a rebound after two years of market contraction, hopefully including sales in oil-rich Gulf Arab countries. The U.S. and Israeli war against Iran that began Feb. 28, however, has had a sweeping impact on the global economy, driving up energy prices, stalling shipments of fertilizer, and disrupting air travel, among other things. High-end watches have not been spared. Soaring prices for precious metals like gold and silver, and…

Today, April 14, is World Quantum Day. The day marks the beginning of an annual event in which scientists and educators around the globe work to raise awareness of the underlying science behind technologies that could radically transform our world in the years ahead. Here’s what you need to know. What is World Quantum Day 2026? World Quantum Day is an annual awareness day organized by quantum scientists worldwide. According to the day’s official website, the initiative is “decentralized and bottom-up,” meaning there is no single organization promoting World Quantum Day. Instead, individual scientists work in tandem to promote the…

With the growing momentum of the “No Kings” protests, activists have increasingly turned to the 3.5% rule—Erica Chenoweth’s observation, based on over a century of historical data, that once a protest movement mobilizes 3.5% of the population, it achieves its goals within a year. As a result, many have begun to treat the 3.5% threshold as a primary objective. Not so fast. Even Chenoweth herself has cautioned that the rule is “a descriptive finding, not necessarily a prescriptive one.” Her subsequent research has shown that at least one uprising—in Bahrain—reached a 6% participation rate and still failed. In fact, most…

Our resident camera tech experts explains everything you need to know from GoPro’s launch announcement.The new GoPro Mission 1 lineup, featuring the Mission 1 Pro and the groundbreaking Mission 1 Pro ILS (right), the brand’s first camera designed for interchangeable micro four-thirds lenses. (Photo: Courtesy of GoPro)Published April 14, 2026 09:36AMWhenever I test a new camera—be it a mirrorless or the new iPhone—I always focus on sensor size. The bigger the sensor, the more light it can drink in. More light equals higher-resolution video and photos and better low-light performance.So I was delighted to learn that a much larger sensor…

Given the barrage of brands competing for your attention, some days it can feel as if the only time one can reliably expect to escape the desperate frenzy of consumerism is while asleep. However, as You Need This, the new documentary from Academy Award-winning producer Adam McKay’s Yellow Dot Studios reveals, a lot of corporations are hoping to break into that last safe haven as well.  Weaving together several threads, the film, which debuted April 7 on Apple TV and Prime Video, traces Americans’ love of shopping back to our colonial past and connects it with the rise of fast…

Segway’s versatile new Myon and MUXI e-bikes capture the simple, irresistible appeal of high-tech ridingSegway’s new e-bikes. (Photo: Segway)Published April 14, 2026 07:58AMFrom its earliest iterations in the 1800s, the bicycle had an elemental draw: simplicity. Throw a leg over and go wherever adventure calls, faster than your feet could ever carry you, the wind humming in your ears. The best e-bikes today retain that purity—simple and accessible—and Segway captures the spirit in the new Myon and MUXI e-bikes, built around the company’s innovative riding solutions. Here’s how to tell which one is right for you. Myon The Segway Myon…

The standoff between the United States and Iran deepened Tuesday as the U.S. declared it had blockaded Iran’s ports, Tehran threatened to strike targets across the region, and Pakistan said it was racing to bring the sides together for more talks.Though last week’s ceasefire appeared to hold, the showdown over the Strait of Hormuz risked reigniting hostilities and deepening the region-wide war’s economic fallout.Talks aimed at permanently ending the conflict — which began Feb. 28 with U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran — failed to produce an agreement last weekend, though Pakistan has proposed hosting a second round in the…