We live in the age of the unicorn; startups that seem to leap to billion dollar valuations overnight. It’s a wonderful time to be an entrepreneur. The upside has never been greater. But let’s face it, the reason they’re called unicorns is because they are exceptionally rare.
While I regularly work with well-funded startups that have the possibility of joining the ranks of unicorns, I’ve also seen the other side of this phenomenon; founders and companies that become obsessed with their valuation and set their sights, and those of their employees, on incredibly unrealistic growth expectations.
