India is preparing to launch its first tokenized corporate bond in September, and this experiment exposes where the digital monetary system is ultimately heading. The bonds will be issued by REC, a state-owned power financier, in an offering worth less than 5 billion rupees, or approximately $57 million. The amount is small because this is a pilot program, but the structure is far more important than the size. India’s central bank digital currency will be used to purchase the bonds, which means the government is no longer merely testing digital money for ordinary payments. It is connecting CBDCs directly to…
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Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Most YouTube channels don’t fail because creators lack ideas — they fail because their workflows are unrealistic, and running a channel is more time-consuming than most think when they start out. Video editing, optimizing videos for YouTube SEO and interpreting YouTube Analytics are the three most time-consuming tasks of running a channel. To reclaim your time, you need to automate as much as possible, batch tasks and outsource to professionals. Running a YouTube channel can be a major marketing asset, a lucrative side hustle and even a full-time career. It’s also…
The United States has become the first nation to prohibit its central bank from creating a central bank digital currency, but Congress quietly placed an expiration date on that protection. The prohibition covers both retail and intermediated CBDCs, yet it expires at the end of 2030. That means the door to a programmable government currency will reopen in 2031, precisely as the Economic Confidence Model reaches its major 2030 turning point. President Trump prohibited federal agencies from pursuing a CBDC through executive order, and Congress has now reinforced that position legislatively. Nevertheless, executive orders can be reversed by the next…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Coco Robotics is doing 1,000 deliveries a day in Los Angeles and has completed more than 500,000 deliveries across more than 1 million miles. The company’s VP of Enterprise Partnerships believes using traditional cars to deliver small food orders creates unnecessary costs. Shake Shack regional manager gave Coco a particularly memorable review. Restaurant delivery has a vehicle problem. Coco Robotics was founded in 2020 by two UCLA engineers who began questioning whether traditional cars made sense for moving restaurant orders short distances. “They were just kind of looking around at…
Syria has received its first shipments of wheat and cement at Berth No. 4 in the port of Tartous, a facility previously controlled by Russian forces. On the surface, this appears to be a minor logistical development involving a few cargo vessels. In reality, it symbolizes a major change in the balance of power following the collapse of Bashar al-Assad’s government. A military pier that once supported Russia’s projection of power across the Mediterranean and Africa is being absorbed into Syria’s civilian economy. The first cargoes reportedly arrived through Turkish ports. Military influence is retreating while trade and capital are…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Most business owners assume EBITDA multiplied by a market multiple is what determines the value of their company, but that’s only part of the equation. The multiple itself isn’t pulled from a spreadsheet. It’s an assessment of risk, confidence and future cash generation. That’s the hidden math behind business valuation. Owners often ask, “What’s the right multiple for my business?” But buyers usually begin with: “How much risk are we accepting if we own this company?” The answer influences almost every assumption in the valuation process. Ask most business owners…
Key Takeaways Harvard Business School launched a new course called HBS Foundry. The eight-week entrepreneurship bootcamp allows students to talk to AI avatars of Harvard professors. The program takes participants step by step through launching a company, from sharpening an idea to pitching investors and customers. At first glance, Harvard Business School senior lecturer Jeff Bussgang looks normal on the screen. He is smiling and eager to listen to a student’s startup idea in a video call. But there’s a catch. The student isn’t speaking to Bussgang; they are talking to his AI video avatar. Bussgang is one of several…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Adopting AI tools in your business doesn’t make your company AI-native. An AI-native organization is one whose operating model assumes that intelligence is cheap and abundant. In a company that has merely adopted AI, you could remove every model tomorrow, and the business would run in roughly the same shape, only a little slower and a little more expensively. AI-native companies start with the work (not with the tools), treat context as infrastructure, put human effort at the beginning and the end, measure cycles (not seats), and finish one workflow…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways You can have every tool, every plan, every intention. When you are wearing this many hats the gap between setup and follow through is enormous. You finally got there. The feeling you worked toward did not show up. And someone told you to be grateful. Whatever got you to the finish line has no idea what to do once you cross it. And neither do you. Last weekend, I sat in a chair for 10 hours a day and wrote four articles. I did not eat properly. I did not…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Chasing your “fair share” of the market is a comfort trap that guarantees mediocrity — real growth comes from defining your company by the unmet needs of your clients, not the boundaries of your industry. The biggest threats to breakout growth aren’t your competitors but five internal drag factors — complacency, fear of failure, giant intimidation, legacy reflex and the illusion of exhaustive effort — that leaders must actively dismantle. If you watch a NASCAR race, you’ll see a tight pack of cars traveling at 200 miles per hour, rubbing…