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Lost and Found at a Beauty Contest

Gust

Oh, not as a contestant… as an “all in” PR gamble that failed spectacularly and essentially bankrupted our startup. And in 1997, that was pretty cool. The Miss Universe contest was perhaps the most devastating loss of my life. It was all so tempting. How did we get the word out? We were broke and product-less.

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Is the Unicorn Endangered or Extinct?

Professor VC

I doubt Aileen Lee of Cowboy Ventures believed that a horse with a horn existed when she wrote Welcome To The Unicorn Club: Learning From Billion-Dollar Startups in late 2013, but she probably had no idea that it would become a hot buzzword in Silicon Valley and hit the cover of mainstream business press, Fortune Magazine.