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Jimmy Donaldson, more prominently known as MrBeast, is a prolific YouTube philanthropist known for giving away millions of dollars.  He has over 127 million subscribers, giving him one of the largest YouTube audiences in the world.  His claim to fame, among other outlandish antics, is...

Ronald Reid was the last person you would expect to be a millionaire. He used safety pins to hold his old coats together and cut his own firewood well into his 90s. He drove a second-hand Toyota Yaris and resisted new purchases. To stay updated with top startup investments, sign up for Benzinga...

The world is becoming an increasingly dangerous place resulting in a number of billion-dollar companies springing up in the personal security industry.  Ring LLC was sold to Amazon.com Inc. for over $1 billion, and Tile has raised over $140 million in funding. Life360 Inc. is worth about...

If a business is thriving, market downturns can be a great time to expand.  Struggling businesses likely aren’t spending as much on advertising or expansion, so there’s less competition. This makes it the ideal time to grow because you might be the only game in town, and...

Technology advances quickly, and sometimes you don’t even notice. The first iPhone came out in 2007, but it seems like it was just yesterday. Apple and smartphones are so ingrained in people’s daily lives that most forget there was a time before mobile phones. Tomorrow’s...

Investing in startups is a lot different than investing in the overall stock market.  When stocks launch an initial public offering (IPO), they are typically actively trading until they are bought out or go out of business. The startup investing market is significantly different because it has...

Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) have never really found their footing. That's likely because most of their early days have been filled with insultingly bad art, monkey pictures and constant grifts associated with Elon Musk’s Tweets. Even the biggest and most popular blockchain games in the world...

Building a startup isn’t easy. That’s likely why roughly 90% of startups fail to make a successful exit. Uncertain economic conditions, poor management, a bad product idea and hundreds of other factors can contribute to the demise of a startup.  But some founders are able to...

Warren Buffett loves Coke and Dairy Queen, has lived in the same house for decades and only recently upgraded to a smartphone — in 2020.  Widely considered one of the best investors ever, a defining moment in Buffett’s career and one of his best investments ever came from a salad...

When Jeff Bezos started Amazon.com Inc. as an online bookseller in 1994, he thought his company would probably fail. And he was upfront about it with Amazon’s investors — starting with his parents. As Bezos told an interviewer in 2000, three years after Amazon went public, “I...

You might not believe it, but car theft is on the rise. Older cars were typically easier to steal because of reduced anti-theft features, but it seems the edge of modern cars is waning. Car thefts bottomed out in 2014, with a relatively flat car-thefts-per-capita rate between 2010 and 2019. But...

Business magnate Warren Buffett is widely regarded as one of the greatest investors of the modern-day world. His seemingly unmatched and consistent value-investing strategies have earned him the title of Oracle of Omaha. Many of his investing strategies are known, but there is one that is often...

Few Ph.D papers have been more influential than economist Eugene Fama’s 1965 thesis. Fama’s hypothesis helped spark a school of thought in finance that held that all efforts to beat the stock market over the long term were futile. Called the efficient market hypothesis, it maintains...

If you haven’t noticed, the blockchain world has been pretty volatile. OpenSea non-fungible token (NFT) volume is down more than 90%, and nearly everyone has heard about the multibillion-dollar scandals and subsequent collapse of FTX, Celsius and more. Anyone that has been in the world of...

Venture capitalists (VC) and high-net-worth angel investors once owned the startup investing space. It used to be illegal for everyday investors to invest in startups, but that is quickly changing. Now, not only is it possible for everyday investors to invest in the same startups as VCs, but...