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The age of the unicorn is over

The second path to an exit—a sale to a corporate buyer—is also partly blocked. Only 698 VC-backed firms were purchased by companies last year,...

Lean Venturing: 6 Steps Used By Unicorn-Entrepreneurs To Launch Without VC

It’s down from a torrent to a trickle. What’s an entrepreneur to do? The 10-year U.S. Treasury-bond rates are approaching 5%. The days of wine,...

9 Rules From Jeff Bezos To Build A Unicorn Inside A Unicorn

Jeff Bezos built Amazon.com from an idea into one of the world’s most successful companies. An excellent article delves into the pivotal role of...

#1 Focus For Unicorn Success: Embrace The Tough Stuff First

Are you tempted to skip the difficult aspects of your entrepreneurial journey? Do you find yourself wanting to avoid, delegate, or outsource challenging tasks? Embracing...

Steve Jobs’ #1 Mistake: How Picking The Wrong Business Track Almost Cost Him His Greatest Achievement

Steve Jobs was one of the greatest entrepreneurs of the last 100 years – and one of the luckiest. His biggest mistake could have...

VC Hype And Its 5 Disastrous Long-Tail Consequences

PR, aka hype, is important to VC investments in order to enhance the value of the venture and to create a market for later...

Better Than Meta: This Good Unicorn Uses VR To Repair Strokes, Alzheimer’s And Parkinson’s

Good Unicorn MindMaze has zero interest in building the next hot social platform. Instead, it is wholly dedicated to helping the 15 million patients who...

This Is No Ordinary Unicorn, This Is A Good Unicorn: How Emeritus Is Making MIT And Harvard-Level Educations Accessible To All

Valued at $3.25B after a $650M fundraise, Good Unicorn Emeritus/Eruditus is on a mission to build a world where MIT and Harvard-level educations are...

How to identify unicorn founders when they’re still early-stage – TechCrunch

Johan Brenner Contributor Johan Brenner, general partner at Creandum, early backer of iZettle, Klarna, Trade Republic, Vivino, Neo4J and many more. As an early-stage VC, you spend...

As expected, stock trading service Public raises $220M at unicorn valuation – TechCrunch

The day before Robinhood goes under the the Congressional hammer, domestic rival Public.com announced this morning that it has closed a $220 million funding...

Private spaceflight specialist Axiom Space raises $130 million to become the latest space unicorn

A artist's illustration of the company's space station in orbit.Axiom SpaceHouston-based Axiom Space is going full tilt into scaling production of private space stations,...

The Series A deal that launched a near unicorn: Meet Accel’s Steve Loughlin and Ironclad’s Jason Boehmig – TechCrunch

The only people who truly understand a relationship are the ones who are in it. Luckily for us, we’re going to have a candid...

1 Reason Why Miami And Texas Still Need The Unicorn Link

Business Migration getty With all the migration, of corporations and financiers, from Silicon Valley to “greener”...

Byju’s buys online coding classes startup for $300m – Times of India

Bengaluru: Byju’s said it has acquired online coding classes startup WhiteHat Jr for $300 million in one of the rare all-cash deals in the...

10 Venture Lessons From Albert Santalo: A New Type Of Unicorn-Entrepreneur With An Old Financing Model

Albert Santalo is a successful entrepreneur, having founded 3 software companies in South Florida. He was born in the United States to first-generation Cuban...

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