Be Your Own Boss

Robert Green is a certified public accountant and the founder of Green NFH, LCC, a tax and accounting firm focused on traders, investors and investment management businesses. Green recently joined Benzinga’s #PreMarket Prep to talk about ways that traders can save thousands of dollars a...

Analysts receive hundreds of emails every single day. Have they figured out how to manage the madness? And if so, what could others learn from their success? Benzinga recently reached out to a few analysts to see how they handle the influx of electronic messages. 1. Delete Everything If you...

BloomNation set out with the goal three years ago of disrupting the flower delivery business. A $5.55 million series A venture capital round led by Ronny Conway reaffirms this mission. Other series A investors include Andreessen Horowitz, Spark Capital and Chicago Ventures, who funded a...

This article was first published on Medium and is written by Filipe Castro Matos (@filipecmatos). It was republished with permission. On April 2, I put myself to a new challenge. It was one of the biggest life hacks I’ve ever done. The challenge was simple: waking up 21 consecutive...

For the amount of time spent on smartphones, there is plenty that can be done with your personal finances. Now that you can manage your debts, assets, budgets and investments from your phone, here are some apps that can help along the way. Wally One of the most tedious aspects of personal...

On September 23, Richard Branson announced on his blog that the 170 employees of Virgin Management, the company that manages his family’s investments, are able to take vacations for any length of time, whenever they want. The move is a test to gauge the efficacy of an unlimited vacation...

Benzinga partner James Altucher recently interviewed one of the most unique entrepreneurs around -- a man who has made money selling his identity. His name is Jason SurfrApp, and before that, he sported a surname of -- believe it or not -- headsets.com. SurfrApp sat down with James Altucher...

Charlie Munger once described the secret of success as “take a simple idea and take it seriously.” While that can be applied to many aspects of life, it is nowhere more important than in the stock market. The one simple rule to succeed in the markets doesn't involve fancy chart...

PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel appeared on Benzinga partner James Altucher's podcast this week and talked about everything from being Facebook's first investor to retirement.  One particularly interesting topic Thiel covered was PayPal itself, which he founded in 1998 with Elon Musk...

Mark Cuban knows a thing or two about investing. Over the past two decades, he has built up a net worth of $2.6 billion and turned around an NBA franchise. Mark Cuban's appearances on ABC's "Shark Tank" have also introduced him to hundreds of startup hopefuls. Taking a break...

Whenever academics, geeks and quant jockeys get together to talk about markets and stocks, a few catch phrases are likely to dominate much of the conversation. One is "anomalies" -- those pesky little factors that cannot be explained away by the efficient market theory. The other is...

Entrepreneurs have a new outlet. Seventeen years after its first try failed, Bill Gross has brought forth IdeaMarket. As the company's website puts it, “a curated crowd-sourced marketplace for ideas that solve everyday problems and uncover interesting new opportunities.”...

Pat McInnis is a 21-year veteran of the Detroit-based Quicken Loans family of companies and the chief executive officer of Fathead since 2009. He helped reshape Fathead's culture and began moving the company into a new direction. McInnis is a business and management pro, and he took the...

In chapter two of his classic book, "The Intelligent Investor," Benjamin Graham spelled out what it takes for investors to succeed: The investor cannot enter the arena of the stock market with any real hope of success unless he is armed with mental weapons that distinguish him in...

Can an app change the way individuals invest? Walter Cruttenden, co-founder of Acorns, is on a mission to find out. "We just want to enjoy our lives and change the world," Cruttenden, a serial entrepreneur, told Benzinga. He set out to achieve this goal after his son, co-founder...