Brian O'Connor

Brian O’Connor is the award-winning, nationally syndicated  "Funny Money" personal finance columnist for the Detroit News, and author of The $1,000 Challenge: How One Family Slashed Its Budget Without Moving Under a Bridge or Living on Government Cheese, from Portfolio-Penguin. In addition to positive reviews, The $1,000 Challenge was named Best Money Management Book of the Year by The Institute for Financial Literacy. A 2001 Knight-Bagehot Fellow in Economics and Business at Columbia University, O'Connor also was the founding managing editor of Bankrate.com.

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Devices

Mark Cuban Thinks You're More Stuck up Than He Is. Is That Even Possible?

Meanwhile, a honey alternative gets a bunch of sharks buzzed about making a deal.

Thought Leaders

Daymond John Bites Back: 'Tell These Bobos to Take a Walk'

An all-military themed episode finds servicemen and their spouses gunning for deals for mom-made handbags and landmine jewelery

Starting a Business

Daymond John Tips Mark Cuban Out of the 'Tank'

A take-it-or-leave-it offer to invest cuts off Cuban from making his usual last-minute surprise bid.

Thought Leaders

LuminAID Founders Light up the Darkness, and Their Sales

A deal with 'Shark Tank''s Mark Cuban more than doubled these entrepreneurs' sales for a disaster-relief retail product.

Starting a Business

Is the Video Profile 'Shark Tank's' Kiss of Death?

Like those red-shirted crewman on 'Star Trek,' few of the entrepreneurs profiled on the show seemed to survive -- until now.

Starting a Business

'Shark Tank' Recap: Barbara Corcoran Gets Baffled by a 'Wild-Ass Entrepreneur'

Who walks away from two deals from the sharks? A woman with a better place mat.

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