Unicorn Club

Building a Business

I Built a Billion-Dollar Company With the Help of These 19 Business Books

Reading books is a great way to obtain information and advice from experts that can help you grow your business. If you're looking for a place to start, try this list.

By Stu Sjouwerman

Building a Business

Building the Right Kind of Unicorn

By Renen Hallak

Thought Leaders

What Every Entrepreneur Can Learn From The Wing Controversy

By Janine Yancey

Building a Business

Here Are 25 Billion-Dollar Companies You Haven’t Heard Of (Infographic)

By Jessica Thomas

Thought Leaders

15 Success Secrets From Female Founders With $1 Billion Companies

What it took to get them to a unicorn valuation.

By Jessica Thomas

Business Accounting

Could These Companies Be the Next $1 Billion Unicorns?

A new study looks ahead at which businesses could be the latest members of the nine-figure club.

By Nina Zipkin

Building a Business

12 Crazy Things You Should Know About WeWork, the Coworking Company Valued at $20 Billion

The company started in New York in 2010 and is now in 56 cities in 18 countries.

By Stephen J. Bronner

Building a Business

Do These 4 Things to Become the Unicorn of Your Industry

No myth, magic or fairy dust required

By Mike Linton

Building a Business

20 Facts About the World’s Billion-Dollar Startups

A new study compares what these "unicorn" companies have in common.

By Nina Zipkin

Business News

Slack Raises $200 Million, Boosting Valuation to $3.8 Billion

The latest funding round comes in spite of a contraction in venture capital investing for technology startups, amid widespread concern about high valuations.

By Reuters

Building a Business

Success Comes From Solving Real Problems, Not Chasing Unicorn Fantasies

If your dream is to get rich selling your tech startup to Google or Facebook, you're overdue to wake up.

By John Boitnott

Building a Business

Why the Term ‘Unicorn’ Needs to Die

That Silicon Valley jargon is simultaneously the dumbest and most perfect appellation for overvalued startups.

By John C. Dvorak

Business Accounting

Will Silicon Valley’s Unicorn Herd Grow or Shrink in 2016?

Startups with high valuations are not as rare as they once were. Will the trend continue?

By Jason Ankeny

Building a Business

Startups Don’t Need Unicorn Aspirations to Attract Investor Attention

Investors fixated on finding the next startup to attain the exalted $1 billion valuation inevitably miss many very good investments.

By Richard Maclean

Building a Business

As Ad Business Struggles, Investors Question Snapchat’s $16 Billion Valuation

The free mobile app is having trouble courting advertisers, and investors are nervous.

By Reuters

Business News

Square to Price Shares for IPO Today

The company run by founder Jack Dorsey will debut Thursday on the New York Stock Exchange.

By Reuters

Building a Business

4 Ways to Scale and Capture Your ‘Unicorn’ Horn

Survivability is thrivability. Here are the moves that will get you there.

By Sharon Wienbar

Business News

Are the ‘Wall Street Journal’s’ Claims Against Theranos Accurate?

Fortune's Roger Parloff spoke with the general counsel at Theranos to investigate claims made in a recent 'Wall Street Journal' article. Here's what he discovered.

By Roger Parloff

Business Legal

JustFab: Silicon Valley Sees a Unicorn, Customers See a Trojan Horse

The company's founders have a history of being associated with dubious practices.

By Carly Okyle

Tech

How BlaBlaCar Is Different From Uber

The French ridesharing company is reportedly valued at more than $1 billion. Here's what you need to know about it.

By Catherine Clifford

Building a Business

Tech ‘Winter’ May Be Coming. Here Is What It Means for Your Startup.

If so-called unicorns are overvalued, it may send reverberations throughout the investment community. Do these five things to be more prepared.

By Alex Iskold

Thought Leaders

Myths That Can Hold New Entrepreneurs Back

Here are six ways you're making things harder for yourself.

By Nina Zipkin

Business Funding

10 Companies That Are Probably Going Public in the Next Year

IT and health care tend to be the most popular business sectors, accounting for 28 percent and 39 percent of all VC-backed IPOs over the past 10 years, respectively.

By Geoff Weiss

Building a Business

The 5 Steps From Startup to Unicorn

Those ultra-rare companies that grow from idea to $1 billion enterprise all go through a similar merciless process.

By Peter S. Cohan

Building a Business

Oscar, the Health Insurance Startup, Now Valued at $1.5 Billion

The company has also seen triple the number of people enrolled in the last 12 months.

By Erin Griffith

Building a Business

Want to Join the ‘Unicorn Club’? Here’s What 3 Companies Did to Get There.

Leaders from three software companies valued at more than $1 billion sound off on how to join their ranks.

By Zach Cutler

Building a Business

Do Pivots Matter? Yes, in Almost Every Case.

A recent analysis of 39 billion-dollar companies says most stuck to their original vision. Serial entrepreneur Steve Blank argues that isn't true.

By Steve Blank