Billion Dollar Unicorns: The Ride-Sharing Industry Continues to Deliver Unjustifiable Valuations

The global ride-sharing market is seeing skyrocketing valuations. There are several pundits who question these multi-billion dollar valuations. But that hasn’t stopped VCs from continuing to drive valuations upwards – irrespective of the geography in which these companies operate. The lion’s share of the ride sharing market is held by Billion Dollar Unicorn club member Uber.

Duolingo Valuations Skyrocketing While Revenues Remain Absent

Rapid globalization in the recent years has led to an increased interest in learning new languages. While English is the most preferred language to learn, there is a growing interest in other languages like Mandarin Chinese and Spanish. A recent report published by TechNavio projects the global Online Language Learning market to grow at 10%

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From E-Commerce to Web 3.0: Flipkart Sees Valuations Rise, Profitability Still a Challenge

Last year, Chinese e-tail giant Alibaba went public on the New York Stock exchange. Alibaba has been the role model of several e-commerce companies. One of their avid followers, India-based Flipkart, is now eyeing an IPO in the US markets as well. The company is already seeing strong growth in its valuation driven by the

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From E-Commerce to Web 3.0: Indian E-Commerce Player Snapdeal Eyeing a US IPO

A recent Morgan Stanley report expects the Indian Internet market to grow from $11 billion in 2013 to $137 billion by the year 2020, translating to a 43% annualized growth. Within the industry, e-commerce is expected to grow from $2.9 billion in 2013 to $102 billion by 2020, making India the world’s fastest growing e-commerce market in

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Billion Dollar Unicorns: Can Kaltura Be A Public Unicorn?

Recent market reports on the open source software market estimate that there was a 140% growth in the interest in purchasing open source software over the last four years. Overall the market saw $2 billion in open source software sales back in 2013. As interest in open source tools increases, companies like Kaltura are seeing

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Billion Dollar Unicorns: Containers Gives Docker Entry into the Club

According to recent research reports, the global open source software market was estimated to be worth $2 billion in 2013. But there is a rapid increase in the adoption of open source tools. Researchers peg the number of open source projects in 2014 to double to nearly 2 million. Billion Dollar Unicorn club member Docker is helping

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Billion Dollar Unicorns: GoFundMe Bootstraps till the Half-Way Point

A recent Massolution report estimates the global crowdfunding segment to grow to $34.4 billion by the year 2015. Crowdfunding is estimated to have grown 167% in 2014 to raise $16.2 billion. Billion Dollar Unicorn club contender GoFundMe is a rising star within the industry.

Billion Dollar Unicorns: Blue Apron Simplifies DIY Gourmet Cooking

A recent Business Insider report estimates the food and beverage industry to be worth $600 billion. The market had seen the least disruption due to the growth of the Internet, but all that is changing now. The report estimates that from 2013 through 2018, online grocery sales will grow 21% annually to be worth $18 billion by

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