Startups

Benzinga announced last week that DocuSign chairman Keith Krach, former Prosper president Ron Suber and Ripple executive chairman Chris Larsen will join a speaker's roster that already included "Shark Tank" host Kevin O'Leary at the Benzinga FinTech Summit on September 28th in San...

When you’re starting a career as an entrepreneur, mistakes are part of the equation. But while no entrepreneur gets everything just right the first time, it’s helpful to avoid or at least prepare for some of the most common mistakes that tend to cause problems for new entrepreneurs....

Startup Angels and Techstars Mobility are hosting a workshop in Detroit Oct. 4-5 that’s intended to give both an insider’s view of startup investing and the startup climate in the Motor City. Startup Angels, a Washington D.C.-based company designed to empower angel investors, is pairing...

What began with a deadly clash in Virginia led to a perfect storm that threatens the global economy and stability of the dollar. The danger is not so much that President Donald Trump is losing his angry, white, working-class base, but he is being abandoned by GOP elites who were hoping to profit...

Being in the cannabis business right now is mostly about compliance. It’s not hard to come up with an idea that could prove profitable, even in a short time; what’s hard is to implement it in a way that doesn't raise eyebrows among federal- and state-level regulators and government...

It's not unusual to hear people say public relations firms have no real purpose. “They charge me to get me press coverage, which is ultimately free,” a mid-cap CEO told Benzinga in a recent event in New York. He had a point. The thing is, his understanding of what PR firms do was...

Back in April, Benzinga shared an interview with Joel Milton, CEO of Baker Technologies, one of the largest VC-backed cannabis companies in the U.S. The firm offers a customer engagement platform designed for marijuana dispensaries and brands, often dubbed “the salesforce.com, inc. (NYSE...

Hundreds of startups will compete in Detroit — a city that’s increasingly becoming a tech hub — for more than $1 million in prizes in the Accelerate Michigan Innovation Competition. More than 200 companies participate each year in the competition, which has a $500,000 grand prize...

If you Google “weed coffee” or “cannabis coffee,” you’ll come across dozens of articles explaining how to make your own marijuana-infused drinks. In fact, Google Trends confirms there is considerable search volume around these terms and other related recipes —...

In the financial world today, private equity trading is all the rage. Private equity funds are consistently outperforming the public markets. More often than not, tech startups choose to seek funding through private equity, avoiding the need for a public offering to raise capital. This hesitation...

Pricing is difficult in the early stages of a business. You have neither minimal information on the value your product provides nor your customer’s capacity to pay. Even if you have the right pricing model, almost all startups begin with low pricing, here’s how to avoid this common...

Personal finance and investment is a delicate industry for a number of reasons. Many people who chose to invest their hard-earned cash take their finances very seriously, whether they invest independently or through an institutional investor. To make life easier for those with their money on the...

A startup investing fund in Israel announced that it raised $40 million to fund investment in driverless car technology. Maniv Mobility raised the money from startup crowdfunding investment platform OurCrowd, Tata Motors Limited (NYSE: TTM) subsidiary Land Rover’s investing arm, and auto...

Print is dead. Long live content. At a time when Internet news portals are exploiting all the video and graphic-driven gimmicks at their disposal, a startup called The Athletic is a local, subscription-based news service that - wait for it - focuses on quality reporting. With no ads. The Athletic...

Having raised a record-setting $5.2 billion in the second quarter of 2017, fintech startups are on track to surpass their previous annual record of $14.1 billion, according to research by CB Insights. Nineteen companies, 12 based in the United States, completed financing rounds generating more than...