Unicorn

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...
Flops, Flips And Unicorns: 5 Keys To Master VC Interference And Launch Unicorns
February 24, 2023
Flopping Venturesgetty Unlike the popular, and heavily hyped, assumption that unicorns would not be possible without VC and that getting VC means unicorn success, the reality is that most...
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...
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...
From Elitist To Egalitarian: The #1 Entrepreneurial Pivot For More Unicorns… Everywhere
January 4, 2023
Helping Everyone Get to the Top of the Pyramid (Photo credit should read FRANCOIS GUILLOT/AFP ... [+] via Getty Images)AFP via Getty Images Should the Entrepreneurial Development infrastructure, i.e.,...
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...
The #1 Skill That VCs Should Have And Entrepreneurs Should Seek
November 14, 2022
Master salesman in action (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)Getty Images Here are the results from one of my LinkedIn surveys on the key skill to become a successful VC:...
How This Shipping Startup Rocketed to Unicornhood
September 23, 2022
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. On August 17, 2022, two days after India celebrated its 76th Independence Day, logistics startup Shiprocket joined an elite group of...