The explosion of Unicorns on the Global Landscape

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Googling a unicorn turns up a strange mythical animal in the shape of a horse with a straight horn coming out of its forehead but for the tech followers it means something else now. The word unicorn got a new definition about six years ago when Aileen Lee, a U.S-based Venture Capitalist coined the World “unicorn” in a Tech Crunch article titled “Welcome To The Unicorn Club: Learning from Billion-Dollar Startups.”  The term was assigned to a startup company which was valued at more than a billion dollars. This was the time when these kind of hefty valuations were as…...

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Faisal Khan Faisal is based in Canada with a background in Finance/Economics & Computers. He has been actively trading FOREX for the past 11 years. Faisal is also an active Stocks trader with a passion for everything Crypto. His enthusiasm & interest in learning new technologies has turned him into an avid Crypto/Blockchain & Fintech enthusiast. Currently working for a Mobile platform called Tradelike as the Senior Technical Analyst. His interest for writing has stayed with him all his life ever since started the first Internet magazine of Pakistan in 1998. He blogs regularly on Financial markets, trading strategies & Cryptocurrencies. Loves to travel.