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What Big Companies Can Learn from the Success of the Unicorns

Harvard Business Review

Think about Uber, created in 2009, which is now available in over 400 cities worldwide, fulfills over one million rides on a daily basis, has about 9 million users, and receives more than $1 billion in payments per year. At one level, the answer is quite obvious: Unicorns get big fast.

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Why Some of the Most Groundbreaking Technologies Are a Bad Fit for the Silicon Valley Funding Model

Harvard Business Review

The problem that Etosha and her cofounders ran into when they first sought to leverage the Silicon Valley ecosystem to get their business off the ground was that venture investors typically want to see a real product. Soon after, she and her technical cofounder also received a grant from Cyclotron Road.

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A Crisis Doesn’t Bring Colleagues Together

Harvard Business Review

One of the first is from Viktor Mayer-Schonberger, who in 2009 argued that we will eventually live in fear of being judged on everything we''ve ever done or said. New York Magazine When health care start-up cofounder Joshua Kushner had a sore throat, he didn''t call a doctor. There are several strong arguments and methods for this.