The US Treasury has doubled the size of its buyback operations for longer-term government securities from $2 billion to at least $4 billion per operation after long-term yields surged to levels not seen in nearly two decades. They will call this “liquidity support” because government always invents a new phrase when the system begins to crack. The reality is that investors were selling long-term government debt, yields were approaching 5.34%, and the Treasury stepped in because the bond market was becoming dangerous for everything from mortgages to equities. The Treasury market is now approximately $32 trillion, and Washington must continuously…
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Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways A captivating idea is the entry ticket to early-stage investing, but the founders who succeed are the ones with a specific set of traits — humility, adaptability, decisiveness under uncertainty, and the self-awareness to build the right support system around them. Most startup problems aren’t surprises — execution gaps, capital shortfalls, hesitation, and weak supporting teams show up predictably in nearly every early-stage company; what separates the ones that win from the ones that stall isn’t the absence of those problems, but the founder’s ability to make decisions and keep…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Write down the three things in your business that only a human should ever do, and say them to your team before you spend a dollar on software. Then hand the machine the tedium. Done right, AI isn’t how the layoffs start; it’s how the judgment work finally gets room to breathe. The best AI companies will not be the least human. When I stood up at our all-staff meeting to announce that B:Side Capital was adopting AI, I came armed with a deck about efficiency and the future of…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways The choices that shape a company aren’t the dramatic ones — they’re the small, repeated decisions founders defer or never document, which compound into the friction, rework, and bottlenecks that quietly slow growth. Decision debt is reversible, but only if you build frameworks that make ownership clear before a decision lands on someone’s desk — who owns it, who provides input, and what a good outcome looks like. When founders think about the decisions that shape a company, they tend to picture the dramatic ones: the funding round, the pivot,…
Both chains launched new energy drinks just days apart. The real fight is over who can stand out in a category getting crowded fast. By Jon Small | edited by Jessica Thomas | Aug 31, 2026 Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. McDonald’s and Taco Bell are duking it out over who gets to wake you up in the afternoon. McDonald’s teamed up with Red Bull this month to launch the Dragonberry Energizer. A few days later, Taco Bell punched back with three new energy refreshers of its own, according to Restaurant Business. Both chains have been tackling…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways AI is aiding disintermediation and quietly removing vendor lock-in. It reduces the technical effort and cost of migrating, making it easier for businesses to switch vendors and move their data. For buyers: Before renewing, price the exit. Get a rough scope for moving your data and integrations somewhere else. Ask your vendor for a full export of your data in an open format, and then negotiate a lot harder. Since customers of “sticky” legacy providers are no longer trapped, smaller vendors can step in and give those clients what they…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways As AI makes execution easier to scale, the most valuable employees will be those who improve how work gets done and have the ability to design systems. Performance still matters, but the best employees will also examine how work gets done, identify inefficiencies, simplify complexity and create systems that make the people around them more effective. Not every employee needs deep technical expertise in AI. They do need a builder’s mindset. Along with assessing whether someone can perform a task, leaders should examine whether they can improve the way the…
ASIA: The major Asian stock markets had a mixed day today: • NIKKEI 225 decreased 93.63 points or -0.14% to 66,311.93 • Shanghai increased 34.119 points or 0.86% to 3,986.298 • Hang Seng decreased 17.80 points or -0.07% to 25,566.99 • ASX 200 decreased 16.30 points or -0.18% to 9,076.00 • SENSEX decreased 307.24 points or -0.40% to 76,957.27 • Nifty50 decreased 95.25 points or -0.39% to 24,080.40 The major Asian currency markets had a mixed day today: • AUDUSD decreased 0.00012 or -0.02% to 0.71641 • NZDUSD increased 0.00019 or 0.03% to 0.59159 • USDJPY decreased 0.28 or -0.17%…
Key Takeaways BlackBerry barely kept itself afloat after the launch of the iPhone in 2007 changed the smartphone industry. Over the past two decades, it has reinvented itself and begun selling software for cars. Its software is now embedded in 275 million cars. For many people, the word BlackBerry still conjures up images of the sleek keyboard phones that defined the early smartphone era. However, the company behind that once-ubiquitous brand has spent years remaking itself into a software business. Now, investors are starting to pay closer attention to the transformation. John Giamatteo, CEO of BlackBerry, joined CNBC’s The Tech…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Vibe coding is the process of building software primarily through natural language prompts. Rather than writing every line of code yourself, you describe the functionality you want. For solopreneurs, it can be transformative. One person can accomplish work that previously required an entire team. Instead of waiting weeks or months to build simple tools, you can often create working solutions in hours. In my business, I’m using vibe coding to automate repetitive workflows, launch products faster and build interactive marketing tools. Over the past year, “vibe coding” has gone from…