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The #1 Secret Of Billion-Dollar Entrepreneurs: 94% Took Off Without VC

Can you grow and takeoff without venture capital (VC)? That is the question every entrepreneur...

From Patent To Profit: 4 Strategies To Commercialize University Patents Without The VC-Model

Recently, I saw a note from a university congratulating its technology researchers who got patents. But will...

Flops, Flips And Unicorns: 5 Keys To Master VC Interference And Launch Unicorns

Unlike the popular, and heavily hyped, assumption that unicorns would not be possible without VC and that...

VC-Unicorns Vs. Real-Unicorns: The 2 Disastrous Impacts Of VC Hype

WeWork became a VC-Unicorn and then lost its luster when investors realized that the company was a...

Unicorn-Entrepreneurship: 8 Lessons From Melanie Perkins Of Canva

Unicorn-Entrepreneur Melanie Perkins co-founded Canva and built it to a “real” unicorn, i.e., a company with more...

Can The Entrepreneurial Development Ecosystem Create More Unicorns By Splitting In 2?

Is the Entrepreneurial Development Ecosystem (EDE) neglecting entrepreneurs? At a conference on the...

From Product-Innovation To Strategy-Innovation: #2 Pivot For More Unicorns… Everywhere

Should the Entrepreneurial Development infrastructure, i.e., business schools, incubators, and area developers, shift from product-focus, that helped...

From Elitist To Egalitarian: The #1 Entrepreneurial Pivot For More Unicorns… Everywhere

Should the Entrepreneurial Development infrastructure, i.e., business schools, incubators, and area developers, focus on VC-based Entrepreneurship to...