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HTeaO built $147m of iced tea sales on its water
An Amarillo family chain picked the most boring input in the drink and made it the brand. The lesson is in what they chose not to compete on.
Filmmaker refused a $100,000 deal over AI-generated faces
Trevor Rappleye told a franchise brand his studio would not fake testimonials. He spent three hours certain he had ruined his company, then the board signed anyway.
How a 60-person childcare firm closes for two full weeks a year
Haven shuts every club for a week in summer and the last week of December. The scheduling is set more than a year ahead, and staff are paid for both.
Sacked in 2019, he sold $85,000 of bagels from his kitchen
Jeff Perera had never made a bagel before he lost his job. He estimates he has now baked more than 1.5 million, and the business he and his wife built has 35 locations.
Rejected by every bank at 26, he built the trampoline park himself
Michael Browning Jr. laid the wood and unloaded the foam cubes for the first Urban Air park with his father in 2011. The franchise platform he built on top of it reports it passed $1bn in sales last year.