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What a Unicorn Knows: How Leading Entrepreneurs Use Lean Principles to Drive Profitable Growth

What a Unicorn Knows: How Leading Entrepreneurs Use Lean Principles to Drive Profitable Growth

What a Unicorn Knows is your company's best guide to becoming a well-oiled, high-velocity machine for growth on its way to billion-dollar valuation.

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Matthew E. May

What Unicorns Know: The Physics of Scaling for Growth

A ScaleUp company is a vehicle for rapid business growth, whose momentum can be likened to that of a professional NASCAR or Formula 1 race…

4 min readMar 2, 2023

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What Unicorns Know: The Physics of Scaling for Growth

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Break Through with These 5 Lean Principles from Unicorn Companies

In 1988, John Krafcik coined the term “lean” in his graduate work at MIT’s International Motor Vehicle Program. His paper, “Triumph of the…

8 min readFeb 9, 2023

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Break Through with These 5 Lean Principles from Unicorn Companies

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What’s Your Experiential Intelligence (EX?)

An Interview with Soren Kaplan

5 min readJan 31, 2023

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What’s Your Experiential Intelligence (EX?)

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The 1-Day Strategy Sprint

Framework, Process, Tools

8 min readAug 28, 2022

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The 1-Day Strategy Sprint

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Bootcamp

How to disrupt and dominate a red ocean market

Blue Oceans Are A Thing of the Past

10 min readMay 11, 2021

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How to disrupt and dominate a red ocean market

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Digital Diplomacy

Design Principles for a More Resilient Economy

In his new book When More is Not Better: Overcoming America’s Obsession with Economic Efficiency, Roger Martin offers an antidote to our…

6 min readSep 29, 2020

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Small Business STRONG

3 Winning Moves for Turbulent Times

Don’t let uncertainty hold back development strategy

5 min readSep 18, 2020

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3 Winning Moves for Turbulent Times

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Uncertain Times Are Tailor-Made for Strategy.

Don’t Let the Uncertainty Excuse Stop Your Strategy Making.

4 min readSep 3, 2020

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Uncertain Times Are Tailor-Made for Strategy.

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Winning the COVID-19 War

Defense Production and the Power of Continuous Improvement to Stabilize Society

4 min readMar 30, 2020

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Winning the COVID-19 War

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The Dark Side of Strategy

Can You Separate Strategy From the Strategist? The Unfortunate Answer.

4 min readJun 21, 2019

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The Dark Side of Strategy

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Matthew E. May

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ScaleUp strategist at Insight Partners. Co-author, What a Unicorn Knows: How Leading Entrepreneurs Use Lean Principles to Drive Sustainable Growth (2023).

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