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Five Unicorn Scaleup Strategies

Leapfrogging

based software companies started since 2003 and valued at over $1 billion by public or private market investors. Of course, not all friction is bad. For the unindoctrinated, “lean” is the term coined in a 1988 MIT Sloan Management Review article by John Krafcik, who recently retired as CEO of Google’s Waymo division.

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Ideate or Deteriorate – Why Companies Must Learn How To Be Innovative to Achieve Major Growth

Qmarkets

These two yahoo software engineers would go on to become the founders of Whatsapp. However Kodak’s success would not last forever, and in 2003, one hundred and twenty-two years after its formation, the company had to sell most of its assets in order to avoid bankruptcy.

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Innovate or Deteriorate – How Can Corporations Ensure That Billion $ Opportunities Don’t Slip Away?

Qmarkets

These two yahoo software engineers would go on to become the founders of Whatsapp. However Kodak’s success would not last forever, and in 2003, one hundred and twenty-two years after its formation, the company had to sell most of its assets in order to avoid bankruptcy.

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Innovate or Deteriorate – How Can Corporations Ensure That Billion $ Opportunities Don’t Slip Away?

Qmarkets

These two yahoo software engineers would go on to become the founders of Whatsapp. However Kodak’s success would not last forever, and in 2003, one hundred and twenty-two years after its formation, the company had to sell most of its assets in order to avoid bankruptcy.

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Optimizing UI icons for faster recognition

Boxes and Arrows

The icons were in the same position for both rounds of the test, so due to the increased familiarity, the speed of recognition naturally increased for the second style, regardless which style it was. While this could be the case, it could also be due to the their better familiarity with the solid style. Course in General Linguistics.

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ikeGPS – How To Invest in Trends To Escape Your Core and Grow Explosively

Adam Hartung

Of course you would. ikeGPS was started in 2003 as a government/military funded products research company. While they didn’t know anything about mobile operating systems, or much about the kinds of cameras in mobile phones or the software used for popular mobile camera uses – they could see a trend.

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