If you want to get inspired right now, read Elizabeth Gore’s love letter to her fellow female entrepreneurs. Even if you’re not a female entrepreneur, her excitement about this topic is contagious. In the article, she’s searching for, and beginning to create, a completely new model of entrepreneurship for women, one she calls the phoenix model, instead of the typical “unicorn” model.
Gore makes the argument that women’s businesses don’t fit into the traditional mold for male-run businesses, where the ultimate goal would be unicorn status (defined as a company that is valued at $1 billion by investors.) That’s why, she argues, there are only 3 female unicorns in the world, among 165 companies with “unicorn” status.
