Dileep Rao

The 4 Key Steps of Unicorn Entrepreneurship. Watch this video to see the key questions you should consider and some of the implications. #leadership #entrepreneurship #innovation https://t.co/4Px4qHtDTH

How BB King Song Nailed The First Stage Of Venture Capital... Before Aha, no one loves you but your mama. VCs do not. They wait for Aha. From idea to Aha, VCs cannot predict success. 12 of them rejected Jobs and Google. So get to Aha with skills. https://t.co/OxB6YBCjOL

Posted my first YouTube video in this series. But here is the new link for this video on "Unicorn-Entrepreneurship: Why it is 16x Better than VC!" https://t.co/45KEJdi9f7 Dileep Rao #youtube #video #entrepreneurship #venturecapital #entrepreneur #entrepreneurshipeducation

Starbucks wants to make an impact on minority communities. Will $2 million per state have an impact? How much are Starbucks and the other franchises taking from minority communities? Starbucks can start by developing minority businesses that import wealth. https://t.co/biOU3Zqif4

Business plan contests are popular. Judges pick winners using “superior” instincts. Ditto for beauty pageants. But can anyone pick long-term winners based on looks and instincts? In the world we live in – looks and color do matter, but should they count? https://t.co/McROKUCmxQ

If Miami and Texas want unicorns, they should develop unicorn-entrepreneurs, not just attract VCs. They should focus on the jockey, not the horse. Instead of pitch competitions, they need unicorn-skills competitions. Is that asking too much? https://t.co/hMchzNOVQd

It is tragic that the entrepreneurial education community has bought into the Idea + VC method hook, line, and sinker. Why are we spending millions on a strategy that can be improved by a factor of 16? https://t.co/TLrcF191nw

When the child of a unicorn entrepreneur builds another unicorn, and makes his/her own imprint on history, it is noteworthy. Mukesh Ambani, the son of legendary Indian entrepreneur Dhirubhai Ambani and the founder of Jio Platforms, may be doing this. https://t.co/kkfCHqMSun

The New Jersey Economic Development Authority (NJEDA) and Morgan Stanley Multicultural Innovation Lab (MSMIL) are said to be working on a plan called NJ Accelerate to attract multicultural entrepreneurial talent. Is this likely to succeed? https://t.co/2kasnN8khp

Is Silicon Valley Sinking? Major players are leaving Silicon Valley, which has dominated the world of unicorns from the 1960s with the emergence of Intel. Is this the start of a trend? What does it mean for entrepreneurs and developers? https://t.co/1DomA73dnj

Has Airbnb succeeded because of its idea? Or the entrepreneur’s ability to state the idea in a pitch and attract VCs? Or the entrepreneur’s skills in finding the right strategy and executing it to perfection? See why it is not the idea, the pitch and VC.https://t.co/a4yyFFCTND

My new book, Finance Secrets of Billion-Dollar Entrepreneurs, just published today. If you liked The Lean Startup but want to know how billion-dollar entrepreneurs took off without venture capital, then I think you're really going to love Finance Secrets. https://t.co/dgEQyFPjUM

We are wasting time, treasure and talent. It would be great if business schools would teach the skills and strategies to build big businesses and to take-off without VC instead of using pitch competitions, incubators, and shark tanks. https://t.co/o5ionh8RUj

Why Krugman’s ‘Oops’ Opens Doors For America’s Entrepreneurs And Biden #finance #entrepreneur #siliconvalley #economics https://t.co/xUz8fc0J1y

A “leading” economist, one with a Nobel Prize, has admitted that he was wrong about free trade – one of the basic tenets of economists and corporate executives. What has the impact of this “oops” been? And what should be done to help entrepreneurs? https://t.co/WDmNtPbB4v

100% Of venture capital can be explained in one 4-letter word. To understand VC, understand this four-letter word. Your odds of getting VC can be significantly enhanced. And you may even benefit by knowing how to do it well #entrepreneur #venturecapital https://t.co/SNBflXDTWG

We can create more unicorns if we teach everyone the skills and smart strategies of unicorn-entrepreneurs rather than encouraging more puppet masters who allocate venture capital from the top down to a few “winners” – and fail 80% of the time. https://t.co/TlwFBU5LIS