It has been 10 years since Cowboy Ventures’ founder Aileen Lee coined an incredibly catchy nickname for what were very rare startups at the time: Unicorns. She was referring to U.S.-based companies ...

As business increasingly moves online many brands are abandoning brick-and-mortar premises altogether. Websites have become the new storefronts for brands, with new online purchasing records being set ...

Do you know how many unicorns there were when Aileen Lee crowned them with this now-ubiquitous nickname in her 2013 TechCrunch column? Only 39. And at the time, nobody could have guessed that more ...

It's an overused word, but Auburn's Dana Simpson is kind of a unicorn. She's a professional cartoonist. And her work is in 3 books and syndicated in more than 100 papers. It's a feat bordering on ...

Thirteen-year-old Skandar Smith has always dreamed of being a unicorn rider, one of the elite who compete each year in the Chaos Cup. It’s weeks away from his Hatchery exam—which might offer him the ...

I recently read an article about “unicorn” employees, and it made me think. When most people hear the word “unicorn,” they picture either the mythical, horned beast or a startup valued at more than $1 ...

Eric Topel joined Patsnap this month from Nevada-based Socure. The Singapore-founded company raised $300 million from an investor group that included Japan's SoftBank at a valuation topping $1 billion ...