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Frances Dodds is Entrepreneur magazine's deputy editor. Before that she was features director for Entrepreneur.com, and a senior editor at DuJour magazine. She's written for Longreads, New York Magazine, Architectural Digest, Us Weekly, Coveteur and more.

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Leadership

She's The First Bangladeshi Woman to Work On Wall Street. This Is The Mindset Shift She Made to Convince Skeptics to Invest In Her Longshot Mission.

As every entrepreneur knows, getting others to believe is the first major hurdle. Durreen Shahnaz, founder of the world's first social impact stock exchange, shares her hardwon insights on selling unconventional ideas.

Branding

Your Brand Definitely Has a Voice. But Is It the One You Want?

"What kind of brand voice conveys such a crazy ambitious mission?" Six founders on figuring out what their brand should sound like.

Health & Wellness

What's The Real Reason Workout Goals Don't Stick? This Tech Founder Figured It Out and Now His Fitness Startup Has a 90% Retention Rate.

Rishi Mandal co-founded Future with a former iPhone engineer, and built a business with "anomalous" outcomes in an industry with infamously bad customer retention rates. And his method for getting results can be applied to many different industries.

Thought Leaders

How to Disrupt a Giant, Hopeless System Like Healthcare? Ask These Founders, Whose Startup Cuts Pregnancy Risks in Half.

Oula is a new pregnancy care startup that's providing "incredible" results, while aligning the interests of insurance companies, hospitals, and patients.

Leadership

His Tool Helps 95% of Fortune 500 Companies Have Highly Productive Meetings. These Are the Two Things He Says Goes Wrong In Most Meetings.

CEO Johnny Warström has advised companies like Bosch, Deloitte and many more. Here's what he's taught them about having meetings that matter, and how to increase employee engagement and effectiveness.

Recently Edited Content by Frances Dodds

Franchise

She Started as a Franchisee — Then She Became CEO by Remembering to do This One Thing

Nobody cares what you want unless you speak up to tell them. That's how Tracy Panase became CEO of Just Between Friends.

Franchise

No Education Degree Required — How He Built a $2.5 Million Education Empire

Jason Skidmore once ran an ambulance service. Now he's the top-performing franchisee of Celebree School.

Growing a Business

I've Worked in PR for 17 Years. Here's Why You Shouldn't Hire Me.

Entrepreneurs often think they need PR. Most don't.

Growing a Business

I Faced My First True Professional Meltdown — And It Led to an Eye-Opening Revelation

We all know the importance of picking yourself back up after a failure. But I had always believed how fast you make that recovery was what mattered.

Living

The Top 50 Undergraduate Programs for Entrepreneurs in 2025

The Princeton Review and Entrepreneur partnered to rank the best 2025 undergraduate programs for studying entrepreneurship.

Starting a Business

NBA Star Jaylen Brown Turned Down $50 Million Worth of Deals to Start His New Business — And He Got the Idea From Kobe Bryant

The NBA Finals MVP sat down to talk business with Kickstarter CEO Everette Taylor for a new series called 'The Playbook,' by Entrepreneur and Sports Illustrated.