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Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Think like an investor when evaluating business purchases. Investors ask questions like “What will this purchase generate in financial returns, time savings or operational efficiency over its entire lifespan?” Before evaluating any purchase, ask: What problem does this solve? What return do I expect? What does success look like? Don’t skip due diligence, use structured evaluation (not gut instinct), look beyond the sticker price, validate claims with evidence, and know when to walk away. Every purchase you make as an entrepreneur is an investment decision, whether it’s for a one-time…

Russia’s recent messaging crackdown is the cleanest real-world stress test of decentralization in years, and it produced an awkward result.Roskomnadzor began throttling Telegram on Feb. 10, citing “non-compliance.” Two days later, authorities fully blocked WhatsApp, removing its domains from Russia’s national registry and forcing users toward VPNs or MAX, a state-backed messenger that critics describe as surveillance infrastructure disguised as a chat app.The Kremlin had already mandated the preinstallation of MAX on all devices sold in Russia, effective Sept. 1, 2025.The move seemed tailor-made to vindicate decentralized messaging. Here was textbook censorship playing out in real time, consisting of DNS…

Engineering News Record (ENR) history that can be traced back to 1874. The publication has its roots in two separate publications, Engineer & Surveyor and The Plumber and Sanitary Engineer. The first issue of Engineering News-Record was published on April 5, 1917. On January 1st, 1987, the acronym ENR was adopted as the title of the bi-weekly magazine. The charts that follow use data that are courtesy of ENR magazine that is published 26 times a year. Historical data was pulled from microfiche copies of the magazine obtained from the New York Public Library. ENR magazine is only a small…

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways What started as a customer perk has quietly become one of the most powerful assets in modern commerce. Founders who misunderstand this shift risk building growth strategies on the wrong side of trust. For decades, retailers trained us to believe loyalty cards were a favor. Swipe here, save a dollar. Enter your phone number, get points. Buy ten, get one free. But that story is incomplete — and for founders, increasingly dangerous to misunderstand. What retailers actually built was one of the most powerful data engines in modern commerce, and…

tl;dr I am stepping down from my co-ED role at the EF at the end of February 2026. Bastian Aue is taking over the co-ED role alongside Hsiao-Wei. The future is bright for builders, for Ethereum, for the EF, and for me. Future of Ethereum As competing ideas emerge and fail and the markets jump up and down, we have never been given too much certainty. The conviction about Ethereum that comes from a deep understanding of its technology, its governance, its meaning for the future, and the values we share will always make us converge intermittently, even when our…

Ripple Prime, Ripple’s institutional prime brokerage platform, now integrates Hyperliquid, a high-performance decentralized derivatives protocol.The integration is designed to give institutional clients direct access to onchain derivatives liquidity while maintaining the capital efficiency and risk controls of a traditional prime brokerage.Unified margining for DeFiA key feature of this integration is the ability for clients to cross-margin their DeFi exposures on Hyperliquid against other asset classes supported by Ripple Prime. This includes digital assets, FX, fixed income, OTC swaps, and cleared derivatives.By consolidating these positions, Ripple Prime aims to offer a “capital-efficient” framework where institutions can access decentralized liquidity without managing…

Most traders simply want to trade. They fear missing out on the next big move and they forget that the market is still going to be there tomorrow and the next day and 10, 20, 50 years into the future. Everything in the market repeats and that means there will be another opportunity right around the corner, so stop worrying. Today is not the last day you will have to trade and yet many people trade and think like it is! Over-trading is the number one reason that most traders don’t succeed; it’s a ‘cancer’ to your trading account and…

Strategy announced its weekly BTC acquisition a day late. The company managed to raise funds for more than the expected weekly purchase, adding 2,486 BTC to its treasury.  Strategy acquired another 2,486 BTC, announcing the purchase a day late, coinciding with the US President’s Day. The purchase also coincided with a slower week on the crypto market during the Lunar New Year celebrations. This is the biggest weekly treasury addition for the past three weeks. The new batch of purchases was at an average price of $67,710, as Strategy now buys BTC below its average purchase value of $76,027. The…

LaunchVic CEO Dr Kate Cornick has resigned after a decade with the Victorian startup body to become the new CEO of the Tech Council of Australia (TCA). She’ll take over from outgoing CEO Damian Kassabgi, who will become a special adviser to the Tech Council board after announcing his departure from the role last year. Meanwhile, Brighte founder and CEO Katherine McConnell, a founding member of TCA’s Consumer Energy Tech Alliance, is replacing former board member Robyn Denholm as a TCA director. Chair Scott Farquhar, an investor in Brighte via his wife Kim Jackson’s VC fund, Skip Capital, said “Katherine’s…

Harvard is now an Ethereum (ETH) investor. The Ivy League Institution’s endowment bought more than $86.8 million worth of BlackRock’s iShares Ethereum Trust exchange-traded fund (ETF) in the fourth quarter of 2025, per filings submitted to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) last week. Harvard Management Company also slashed its ongoing Bitcoin (BTC) ETF investment, reducing its iShares Bitcoin Trust holdings from 6,813,612 shares in Q3 to 5,353,612 in Q4. Those shares were worth $265.8 million as of December 31st. The endowment first reported a $126.04 million BTC ETF investment in August, and those holdings grew to $443 million…