Entrepreneurship

"Shark Tank" star, multi-millionaire investor, and chairman of O'Shares Investments Kevin O'Leary will lead a panel of "Shark Tank" companies at the first-ever Benzinga Fintech Summit, which will be held Sept. 28 at Broadway Studios in San Francisco California. O'...

Image Credit: Pixabay Big banks and institutional lenders are slowly finding their way back to the hearts of borrowers who’ve been traditionally put off by the lengthy loan application processes and high interest rates. While this comes as good news for the banking industry, what does this...

One of the largest problems cannabis entrepreneurs face right now is taxation. Since marijuana is still illegal on a federal level in the United States, businesses operating legally on a state level don't qualify for federal tax deductions covering things like rent and employee salaries....

Benzinga follows the cannabis industry and the opportunities it presents. We often ask successful investors and entrepreneurs about the sub-sectors that offer the most space for growth and have, more than once, been told that media was one of the arenas that were ripe for disruption. The Media...

The first half of 2017 was a boulevard of broken dreams for a variety of startups that raised billions in capital, but only have ghostly, untended websites to show for it. The reasons are varied, including this one: If the long-feared fintech bubble hasn’t quite burst, it kind of sprung a...

Lotteries have struggled to appeal to millennials in a tightly regulated industry that manages crazy money. AutoLotto is helping those lotteries innovate. The plan is to aggregate, digitize and unify the lottery world on a phone app and create a global lottery platform. To quote New York state's...

Benzinga recently had the chance to discuss investments and investors in the cannabis industry with Micah Tapman, managing director and partner of CanopyBoulder, a seed-stage investment program and mentorship-driven business accelerator for startups in the cannabis industry. In addition to the more...

On the heels of a gathering designed to connect American entrepreneurs with the Chinese market, Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (NYSE: BABA) is launching an online network to pair businesses with merchants on the commerce giant’s Taobao marketplace. The Taobao Global U.S. Merchants Network will...

If you can believe it, math just got interesting. To accurately predict short-term price action, a father-son duo invented a new form of math that appropriately considers the behavioral component of trades. After a decade of toiling, the resulting technology went live in 2016 to guide technical-...

Up in the executive suite, while Travis Kalanick was getting ousted almost operatically as CEO of his own creation, Uber Technologies Inc, another part of the company just sped along, picking up passengers in a world where real rubber meets actual road. “I’m pretty sure I’ve taken...

For some investors, the term “emerging markets” might conjure up the thought of nations like China, Taiwan, and Singapore. The thought that comes to mind is that these countries have a plethora of great value stocks that are poised to thrive as their respective industrial and consumer...

In a world where high-frequency trading eats up the vast majority of intraday liquidity, Ross Cameron has managed to carve out a niche for himself. Cameron has found success as a trader thanks to a specific short-term trading style that allows him to capture moves on volatile stocks. So much so...

It used to be much easier to impress David Sorin, McCarter & English partner specialized in venture capital and emerging growth companies. “When I was a much younger lawyer, every idea blew me away, and it took some time to really develop the antenna to be able to think about what sounded...

Take the ethnic breakdown of a country and filter it through politics and economics and historical context. Factor in trend analyses built from social media and mainstream reporting. Do the math. What do you get? A model that predicts a society’s chances of, say, a shooting war with Russia or...

People, particularly American people, spend plenty of time in cars. And whether you listen to an iTunes version of a mix tape or a satellite station beamed down with your taste in hip-hop or garage rock, that time is Sirius money. Tesla Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA) wants to own a piece of your heart in drive...