Billion Dollar Unicorns: How Does Domo’s Valuation Compare with Tableau’s?

According to a report published last year, the global BI Market is expected to grow 11% annually over the next few years to $29.5 billion by 2022 from $15.64 billion in 2016. One of the leading players in cloud-based BI solutions is Utah-based Billion Dollar Unicorn Domo.

Can Netflix Continue to Deliver Such Stellar Results?

Netflix (Nasdaq: NFLX) is on a roll. Earlier this week, it reported its fourth quarter results that shattered all market expectations. If there was ever a doubt about slowing subscriber growth, Netflix has put all of those to rest in these results.

Billion Dollar Unicorns: Atlassian is Doing Everything Right, But is it Too Expensive?

According to TechSci Research, the global collaboration software market was worth $4.78 billion in 2016. It was estimated to grow 10% annually to $8.96 billion by 2022 driven by the increasing adoption of bring your own device policies at work places. Billion Dollar Unicorn Atlassian (Nasdaq: TEAM) is an established player in the market. Since listing, the

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Billion Dollar Unicorns: Is Stitch Fix the Next Blue Apron?

Billion Dollar Unicorn club member Stitch Fix (Nasdaq: SFIX) went public late last year and generated quite an applause for being the first woman led tech company to list in 2017. But the applause seems to have given way to skepticism as analysts feel that it will stumble like Blue Apron. Some even call the

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Billion Dollar Unicorns: Can MongoDB Sustain Unicorn Status?

Last year, Billion Dollar Unicorn club member MongoDB (Nasdaq:MDB) went public and became the first non-Hadoop Big Data vendor to do so. Since its listing, the stock has had a roller coaster ride, but despite the misses, has maintained its Unicorn status. Here is a quick look at its financials and performance so far.

Billion Dollar Unicorns: Why Cloudera Continues to Stumble

According to a report published by SNS Research late last year, the global Big Data hardware, software, and professional services markets were estimated to grow to $57 billion last year. The researcher estimates that through the period 2020, the market will grow 10% annually to $76 billion. Big Data vendor and Billion Dollar Unicorn club

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2018 IPO Prospects: AirBnB More than Halfway Ready to List

If there is one Billion Dollar Unicorn that has never been in a rush to go public, it is AirBnB. The ten-year old company has taken to heart Warren Buffett’s mantra of “get rich slow”. After carefully planning its financial and operating model, AirBnB believes that it will be ready to go public this year.

2018 IPO Prospects: Spotify to Test Direct Listing

According to the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), the US streaming music accounted for a majority of the retail music industry revenues. For the first half of 2017, retail revenues grew 17% to $4 billion, of which streaming services accounted for $2.5 billion and grew 48% over the year. Revenue from listeners paying to

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