🎉 Hey Failories! It's Nico here.

This week we launched a collection of +750 unicorn companies, published two new interviews (with a successful and a failed startup founder) and curated some interesting readings. Let's start!

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news & interviews 📢

🦄 +750 unicorn companies. In the last weeks, we've been building the most complete list of unicorn companies and collecting a ton of data about them. Today, we're launching it on Failory. Here's the link.​

You can use the filters to find unicorns in your industry, country, with the highest valuation, etc. Note that these are all private companies; we excluded public companies valued at over $1B.

Along with the list of unicorns, you'll find +180 articles listing all the unicorns in one industry, country, city, etc. I recommend you to check the list of 165 Silicon Valley unicorns.​

💰 $8k/mo selling software to real estate agents. Molly's SaaS, The Agent Nest, is focused on providing digital and print content to RE agents. She has lately experienced exponential growth - 75 agents are signing up for their trial every month.

The business is making $8k in MRR and Molly plans to grow it to $10k by September. Here's how.​

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🔴 Give your startup a competitive advantage. As a Founder, you're passionate about your ideas. You should be. But passion doesn't always create revenue. Learn the difference between building a product vs building a business. Do you have the right mindset to be a successful founder? Watch the videos →

💀 Failing to build a successful bodybuilding app. Jack Ellis is currently the co-founder of Fathom Analytics, a successful privacy-first analytics SaaS. However, before this success, he quit his full-time job to build and, later on, shut down Raw Gains, a fitness app focused on bodybuilding and coaching.

One of the main reasons for Raw Gains' failure was the lack of marketing. Some social media marketing was done, but with "zero real direction". Here is Jack's failure story.​

💵 Pitch decks, in case you missed it. Last week, we launched a collection of +350 startup pitch decks and +80 articles on the best pitch decks by industry, business model and fundraising stages. You can find all these here.​

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what I'm reading 👀

​How to do B2B SEO. A dive deep into B2B content strategy, by Bernard Huang, founder of the SEO tool Clearscope.

​Choosing your North Star metric. The VC firm a16z launched a new content site and this post, by Lenny Rachitsky, was one of my favorite ones.

​$146k in revenue in 188 days. The story of Postpace, a SaaS in the content marketing industry (note it's not MRR, they sold a lifetime deal).

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