She came into life on a bad hair day. Born into extreme poverty, it seemed that Martha was destined for hardship. But by playing her cards right, she developed the first franchise ever and scaled it to 137 locations. This is Martha Matilda Harper, the mother of franchising:

6 questions every founder should ask about pricing strategy. 🧵

(1/6) 📷 What makes a great salesperson? I've thought about this a lot, and I recently talked about my blueprint with Patrick OShaughnessy on the Invest Like the Best podcast:

“Learn to deal with the valleys and the hills will take care of themselves.” — Count Basie

Gastrodiplomacy - when governments try to increase the value and knowledge of their nation through food. 🤯🤯🤯

Bain Capital Ventures just released their Top 50 Emerging Vertical SaaS Companies List. The list, company breakdowns, and some highlights are included. Dive in below👇

"Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence." - Abigail Adams

“Learn to deal with the valleys and the hills will take care of themselves.” — Count Basie

22 *more* ideas from David Ogilvy: 1. Avoiding excess in all things is a recipe for dullness and mediocrity. 2. Poets see an ad as an end. Killers as a means to an end. If you are both killer and poet, you get rich. 3. Fire problem clients. We pass this way only once. 4. For

Recent just got out on to Freakonomics and enjoying this episode on the Art Market open.spotify.com/episode/2kUF2F…

You mentioned working on a Hans Wilsdorf, Rolex episode at the end of the recent episode, check this out David Senra David Senra m.youtube.com/watch?v=7M1wT7…

Students at NYU asked the creators of South Park the million-dollar question: “What makes a good story?” They gave one of the best explanations of story I’ve heard: “If we can take the beats of your outline, and the words ‘and then’ belong between those beats… you got

Prove you can do hard things When a teenager asks why they need to learn calculus, what should you say? You know they will never use it in adulthood, outside of certain career choices. You could say, “It’ll help you get into college,” but then they’re left wondering why

Advice from Steve Jobs: “Don’t be a career. The enemy of most dreams and intuitions, and one of the most dangerous and stifling concepts ever invented by humans, is the “Career.” A career is a concept for how one is supposed to progress through stages during the training

Q: How do you drive change in company meetings? Legendary VC Bill Gurley dropped this on a Tim Ferriss podcast, talking about how Shopify's tobi lutke makes decisions: "Whenever we're dealing with a problem and we call a meeting to talk about the problem, I always start with this

15 lessons I’ve learned (and relearned) in the last year: 1. You should believe your opinion is greater than the opinions of every other person around you. 2. You can find an edge by thinking about your industry more than anyone else. 3. You should accustom yourself to a

Which one of you did this? 😂😂

"Some lessons have to be experienced to be learned." - James Clear

The planner manifesto via Matt Waksman, Head of Strategy, Ogilvy UK

“Not every man can carry a full cup. Sudden elevation frequently leads to pride and a fall. The most exacting test of all to survive is prosperity,” - Oswald Chambers