Billion Dollar Unicorns: Reconsider Your Aspirations

In November last year, I read a brilliant piece titled Reconsider by David Heinemeier Hansson, creator of Ruby on Rails, and a partner at Basecamp, a small 50-people collaboration software company. David starts the piece by saying: It [Basecamp] didn’t disrupt anything. It didn’t add any new members to the three-comma club. It was never

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Billion Dollar Unicorns: BlaBlaCar Expands Internationally with Acquisitions

There has been a surge of funding from VCs that has been driving the meteoric growth in valuation for car sharing firms including Uber and Lyft. I have my reservations on valuations of these companies. But then, there are companies like ride-sharing BlaBlaCar that have managed to enter the Billion Dollar Unicorn club while avoiding the

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Billion Dollar Unicorns: Good, Bad and Ugly

You’ve heard me and others comment on the issue of artificially bloated up Unicorns and their questionable exit paths into the public market, or even into the arms of private suiters. In this post, I want to highlight some really good Unicorns, lest you think all Unicorns are artificially bloated. And, I will also point out

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Billion Dollar Unicorns: Nutanix Gives VMWare Tough Competition

Today, most IT functions of organizations are moving away from siloed service providers to a consolidated services provider. This has led to the evolution of the hyperconverged infrastructure where compute and storage capabilities are integrated so that they can run adjacent to each other on the same physical hardware. Billion Dollar Unicorn club member Nutanix is

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264th Roundtable Recording On June 18, 2015: Billion Dollar Unicorns with René Lacerte, Bill.com

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263rd 1M/1M Roundtable On June 11, 2015: Billion Dollar Unicorns with Ambarish Gupta, Knowlarity

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262nd Roundtable Recording On June 4, 2015: Billion Dollar Unicorns With Druva Founder Jaspreet Singh

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Roundtable Recap: June 4 – Billion Dollar Unicorns with Druva Founder Jaspreet Singh

During this week’s roundtable, we celebrated the launch of my book, Billion Dollar Unicorns, with Jaspreet Singh, Founder and CEO of Druva, India’s flagship global product success story. Druva is not quite a unicorn company yet, but definitely a contender. Macpillar Technologies As for the pitches, first up, Sanjeev Sharma from Noida, India, pitched Macpillar

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