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3 Truths Businesses Can Learn From Unicorn Companies
April 30, 2023
Team celebrating win togethergetty Your chances of spotting a unicorn on your way to work are nil. They’re creatures that only exist in mythology and dreams. But unicorn companies...
Steve Jobs’ #1 Mistake: How Picking The Wrong Business Track Almost Cost Him His Greatest Achievement
April 28, 2023
Steve Jobs' Key Mistake: The Wrong Business Track. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)Getty Images Steve Jobs was one of the greatest entrepreneurs of the last 100 years – and...
Building A Unicorn: 9 Lessons From Howard Schultz Of Starbucks
April 6, 2023
Howard Schultz of Starbucks (Stephen Brashear/Getty Images)Getty Images On a recent flight, I watched Howard Schultz describing how he built Starbucks. Here are a few lessons from the series...
VC Hype And Its 5 Disastrous Long-Tail Consequences
March 28, 2023
Hype to the blue moon?getty PR, aka hype, is important to VC investments in order to enhance the value of the venture and to create a market for later...
Unicorn-Entrepreneurship: 8 Lessons From Melanie Perkins Of Canva
February 9, 2023
Melanie Perkins of Canva. (Photo By Eóin Noonan/Sportsfile for Web Summit via Getty Images)Sportsfile for Web Summit via Getty Images Unicorn-Entrepreneur Melanie Perkins co-founded Canva and built it to...
Say Farewell To Unicorns And Other Disruption Fairytales
February 7, 2023
Leading a growth technology company in 2023 is a lot trickier than it used to be. A recession is looming, interest rates are high, and the window for the...
Shark Tank’s Biggest Successes Include A Healthcare Unicorn, A Beloved Sock Brand And A Couple Beverages
January 21, 2023
More than 600 companies have gotten investments from ABC’s Shark Tank judges in the past 13 years. These are some of the most successful. Shark Tank’s celebrity investors have...
First Outside Investment In 30 Years Makes Life Sciences Software Firm A Unicorn
December 15, 2022
MasterControl CEO Jon BeckstrandAusten Diamond Photograhy Most software startups seek venture funding in the early stages. MasterControl, which provides quality and manufacturing software for life sciences companies, waited nearly...
Next Billion-Dollar Startups 2022
August 16, 2022
With markets down and tech investors skittish, it’s been a challenging year for young, venture-backed startups. These 25 represent the ones we think have the best chance of reaching...