CEO at Retail Robotics Solutions | Station F (Paris) | Driving AI Innovation | Transforming Restaurant Self-Service Automation with Advanced Neural Networks | Empowering Seamless Customer Experiences
For those engaged in startups, Ilya Strebulaev, a professor at Stanford University, requires no introduction. However, if you haven't yet pre-ordered his and Alex Dang's book and are unaware of the additional bonus you can receive for it, then I hope this repost will be very helpful to you.
Professor at Stanford | Bestselling Author | Innovation | Venture Capital & Private Equity
Our new report 𝑊ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝐼𝑡 𝑇𝑎𝑘𝑒𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝐵𝑢𝑖𝑙𝑑 𝑎 𝑈𝑛𝑖𝑐𝑜𝑟𝑛 is now available! It offers all the facts and insights we’ve accumulated in almost a decade of research on startup companies that reach the $1 billion mark in post-money valuation and their peers that do not. It’s perhaps the most comprehensive database of metadata on unicorns and their founders you can find anywhere, compressed into a 200-page report. You can get this report for FREE if you pre-order 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑉𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑀𝑖𝑛𝑑𝑠𝑒𝑡 before the end of May (the link is in the comment section). We started identifying and analyzing unicorns and their founders back in 2015. Today, we have more than 1,200 US-based companies in our database that were or are venture-backed unicorns. Our goal has been to collect high-quality, detailed data on these companies and their founders and analyze the factors that enabled them to get ahead of most other startups. To achieve this goal, we also collected similarly detailed data on a matched random sample of venture-backed companies most of which did not become unicorns. Startup founders love MVPs—minimum viable products. This first edition of our report on unicorns should be viewed as an MVP, but I hope you will also find it to be an MLP—a minimum lovable product! I would like to thank the entire team of the Venture Capital Initiative for their support and dedication over all these years. #stanford #stanfordgsb #venturecapital #startups #innovation #technology #venturemindset
