Entrepreneurship

“Shark Tank” star Kevin O’Leary’s had quite a year. The entrepreneurial-gauntlet-as-television show’s ninth season is still drawing 10 million viewers a night, Plated, a company featured on the show in which he invested, just sold for $300 million, and he launched his...

Michigan’s unicorn population has increased by one. The Ann Arbor-based firm Duo Security's valuation soared north of $1 billion with the announcement of a $70 million Series D funding round Wednesday. “The theme here is, in the last four years at least, we have either tripled or...

Ride-sharing apps such as Uber and Lyft have revolutionized travel over short distances. But what about college students who are 100 miles from home? Wheeli, an app that connects students for ride sharing, is building a solution. The New York City-based company is one of 11 startups that showed off...

"Value over number" seems to be the mantra guiding venture capital funds these days, or that's what is revealed by Statista. Despite an ongoing drop in the number of deals, spending by venture capital funds remains on track to be the highest since the turn of the millennium, according...

In the rare books room at the mammoth store that bears his name, John King reveals a page from the volume that changed the world. “This put the monks out of business,” King said, with type from the Gutenberg Bible on the desk in front of him. John K. King Used & Rare Books, in...

The following originally appeared on Medium and is republished with permission. A new mentor of mine suggested I read Jeff Bezos’ Letter to Shareholders to refine my thoughts around building a career and a business. So I read them all dating back to 1997 and here are my takeaways: 1. Jeff...

If there’s one industry that’s stood out in 2017, it’s the automotive industry. For drivers and fans of the automotive, there’s never been a more exciting time to be alive than right now. Today, startups around the world are standing on the edge of an age of mobile...

People know the startup world is not limited to the U.S., Israel, the U.K. and Germany. However, many are still quite surprised when they hear about highly successful startups based out of a country like Colombia, which might make them think about Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX)’s “Narcos...

At the ninth-grade lunch bell, Rob Dube darted past the cafeteria to the locker he shared with Joel Perlman. Clients had already begun to line the hall as Dube retrieved his stash of Blow Pops, bought from Perlman’s uncle for a nickel a piece, and turned a 20-cent profit. That was just the...

Detroiters can now ask Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN)’s Alexa virtual assistant about their water bill, thanks to technology designed by a 24-year-old University of Michigan grad student. The Detroit Water and Sewerage Department’s customer care portal went live Aug. 21, ands since...

By Claire Bendig At the Benzinga Fintech Summit in San Francisco, dozens of people from the financial technology community spoke about the intricacies of this fast-growing industry. The keynote panel included DocuSign Chairman Keith Krach, fintech pioneer Ron Suber, and "Shark Tank"...

Last year, roughly 50 percent of all adults in the U.S. played a state lottery, a recent Gallup poll revealed. While some of these people were just feeling lucky one day and decided to drop by a Rite Aid Corporation (NYSE: RAD) to place a bet, others are regulars who spend not only...

The United States is home to the most unicorn companies in the world, with over 100 such companies, according to a new report by HowMuch. The term unicorn, used to describe a private company valued at at least $1 billion, was thrust into the spotlight after Uber became the ultimate unicorn as it...

What does a $4,944 bottle of Hennessy cognac have in common with a $7.49 bottle of Mogen David “Mad Dog 20/20” red, rotgut wine? Both can be delivered to your doorstep these days, and it’s dooming the local liquor store. It’s a familiar story of online sales creating a brick...

Theories abound but facts are threadbare. The U.S. Air Force’s mysterious space plane, which returned from a whopping two-year orbital mission in May, is due to go on another ghostly jaunt into the cosmos. The unmanned Boeing Co (NYSE: BA) X-37B won’t be launched on its usual ride, the...