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From hawking Playboy magazines to building a billion-dollar investment portfolio, Samuel Zell is the epitome of the American dream. The real estate mogul, who founded Equity Group Investments in 1968, has come a long way since his early days of selling adult magazines. Today, his firm, now Equity...

Sarah McAllister founded Go Clean Co in 2018. Like many entrepreneurs, she saw a market gap and offered a solution. In her case, the gap was for deep house cleaning, which clients might buy every couple of months as opposed to the typical every-two-weeks cleaning.  When the pandemic started,...

Investor and Shark Tank star Kevin O’Leary is known for his thoughts and opinions on investing and being an entrepreneur. Sometimes his comments can be controversial and generate a strong buzz on social media. Here’s the latest business take from O’Leary. What Happened: O’...

You don’t have to be a fully-fledged decentralized finance (DeFi) startup like AshSwap or Curve Finance to enjoy the benefits of DeFi. Financial integration to the blockchain helps strengthen a company’s technology stack while raising capital. Incorporating elements of DeFi as a...

If you’re inexplicably lucky, then you might plant yourself in a job that fits you like a glove right away. But if you’re like most people, then you ultimately won’t end up where you started working. Sometimes that change can be significant. In my case, I wanted to get some hands-...

When leading, it helps to think about who you’re serving and what’s the mission. That’s according to Courtney Lawless, a venture capitalist, entrepreneur and tech founder. Host of "Wolf PAC," a "Shark Tank" alternative filmed in Philadelphia and released...

Would you wear a t-shirt made from milk? You might soon enough. Two years ago, Robert Luo visited his uncle's dairy farm in China and was shocked to see buckets and buckets of sour and spoiled milk just sitting there. Luo’s uncle lamented how tons of food and money go to waste in his line...

The following post was written and/or published as a collaboration between Benzinga’s in-house sponsored content team and a financial partner of Benzinga. Filing taxes is a little bit trickier for freelancers and entrepreneurs than it is for everyone else. For the traditional employee, a lot...

Benzinga's Fintech Focus Podcast features conversations with the biggest names in fintech. Subscribe to the Fintech Focus newsletter to get a roundup of industry news delivered to your inbox weekly, and check out upcoming programming at Benzinga events. In this episode of the Fintech Focus...

Todd Sullivan says that angel investors need to be very realistic when choosing what companies to back because they often won’t see any return (or even have their original investment back) for seven or eight years. Sullivan is the founder of Rand Strategic Partners, as well as an angel...

If you're a venture capitalist, your office is typically swarmed on a daily basis with startup founders of archetypal fashion: college students and recent grads in their “signature Mark Zuckerberg hoodie attire” who inhabit the local Silicon Valley coffee house and claim to have...

Detroit is a gritty beacon of entrepreneurship, which is why it was one of the cities chosen to host Project Startup Live — a forum and pitch competition to support local startups. Project Startup Live is a partnership between A&E, Comcast Business (NASDAQ: CMCSA) and crowdfunding website...

Detroit Venture Partners CEO, ePrize founder and jazz guitar lover Josh Linkner knows that reinvention is key to survival. Linkner has reinvented himself on a number of occasions. He went from pumping gas at age 13 to playing guitar professionally as a young adult. He even launched his first...

Six months after real estate veterans Ian Burnstein and David Levenfeld met, they owned six self-storage properties together. After six years, they owned 55. Their partnership was born out of a shared vision: use a value investing strategy to build a self-storage business. At the time, “Class A...