Unicorns vs Failures: Constructing Comprehensive Datasets for Predictive Modeling | HackerNoon
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In this research, a company is deemed successful if it achieves one of three outcomes: Initial Public Offering (IPO), Acquisition (ACQ), or Unicorn status (UNIC), the latter being defined as a valuation exceeding $1 billion...we initial filtered for IPOs with valuations above $500M or funds raised over $100M, yielding 363 companies...To select unicorns, we searched for companies with a valuation above $1 billion, leading to a total of 1074 unicorns.
The final dataset contains a timeline of all crucial investment rounds leading to the success event...This approach ensures that the dataset accurately represents the history and progress of each successful company, facilitating effective analysis.
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