... What are the alternatives to Stripe? Paddle got rejected Reason: hybrid model. At Unicorns

... Last year in Unicorns Journal we published an interview with Sergey Bakaev , where we unpacked first-time fundraising strategy expectations vs

... strategy. Platforms like Fundable has no personalized matching, no curated dealflow, no learning loop, no shared context between investor and founder. It s simply SaaS for hope . The uncomfortable truth After working directly with funds and angel investors inside Unicorns Club , here s what became clear: Serious investors don t browse catalogs. Some of the investors who receive curated dealflow from us never even created a profile . They don t search. What founders need is not a directory. They need ... ... because it was strategic, but because reality forced it. Matching happens on two levels The surface layer: industry, stage, geography. The bottom layer: investor behavior, patterns of interest, quiet criteria that are never listed publicly. Every intro request in Unicorns

... just published one of the most honest and practical founder interviews we've ever featured in Unicorns Journal . It s the story of how Sergey Bakaev , co-founder of LovOn , raised $850K after hearing more than 100 rejections with no network and no previous fundraising experience. A brutally honest, step-by-step breakdown of what pre-seed fundraising actually looks like behind the scenes the pressure, the tactics, the mistakes, and the breakthroughs. Top takeaways: Fundraising = communication density 1 warm ... ... sharing fundraising battles, co-founder search, early traction wins, or lessons from near-failures we d love to hear from you. Email us at editor@unicorns.club and we ll be happy to create a deep, meaningful interview with you for Unicorns

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... thing about tax havens is that. Yes on paper they have lots of innovative companies. Take Switzerland. But as the old saying goes. "It takes a village" Usually the talent and resources and the infra to furnace these unicorns happened outside the tax havens. And then they move there after all the hard work completed in the village. and the village isnt in the tax havens its outside. the tax havens just take the credit because now the unicorns

... Curious: how much real-world usage you ve already seen? Not beta signups, but actual end-to-end meetings successfully booked, rescheduled, canceled, etc. YC (and investors in general) usually look for behavioral validation , not just feature completeness. Inside Unicorns Club we see this pattern across many tools: the moment teams get even 20 50 weekly active real users (not friends), retention tells the whole story. How s it looking on your side today? Any early retention or repeat-usage ... ... signals since launch? Comment from Julia Yu(@juliayugo): @jonayed_tanjim  how do you think about the market size and the growth story here? Inside Unicorns

... thesis of a 1-person Unicorn has been going around since the emergence of LLMs and Agents . While I certainly see how an engineer can now do the work of 10, maybe 20 engineers, I'm still not able to see the path to a $1B company. Being a founder of a venture backed startup, I can see how we can grow Mozart AI to $100m+ with < 10 employees. But given the way VC backed companies move ... ... validate the argument, but $80m is quite far away from $1B! What are your thoughts? Comment from Ayush(@ideatbd): @martin_rue  Absolutely agree! Comment from Manu Goel(@manu_goel2): Agree with you! I don't see 1-person unicorns

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... crazy idea we refused to give up on And now Product Hunt just put us in the same league as billion-dollar startups. This is surreal. A dream. That moment of HOLY SH*T, did we actually do this? Unicorns Club a tiny team of just six people, backed by a single angel investor, no VC money just won a Golden Kitty Award. And not just any award, but the one that placed us alongside OpenAI, Google, Figma, Mercury, Notion ... ... just an idea. No big budgets, no seasoned startup team. Just a handful of people who believed the startup world needed a better way to connect founders and investors. To everyone who voted, supported, signed up, and believed in Unicorns

... Community & Social category at the Golden Kitty Awards is filled with amazing startups, just like Unicorns Club, all dedicated to solving challenges for founders and innovators worldwide. Socap ai Socap ai uses AI to help founders grow their networks and fundraise smarter. By leveraging social capital and automating key processes, they re redefining how founders connect with investors and partners. Follow Socap s co-founders on X: @ednevsky, @solonitsyn, @dmitry_star Roundtable Roundtable is building a LinkedIn for investors. With ... ... Hazim_Mohamad_ next play next play is your go-to platform for discovering what s next in the startup ecosystem, from under-the-radar opportunities to fresh collaborations. Follow next play s co-founder on X: @benln Unicorns

... Thank you, Product Hunt, for nominating Unicorns Club for the Golden Kitty Awards in the Community & Social category! When we launched the first version of Unicorns