Food,finance, furniture, and fashion and film could be transformed whether these seven promising firms achieve their potentialWhat will be the next household-name app-based service like Uber? Where are the next “unicorns” – startup businesses which rapidly rise to a $1bn valuation?The biggest successes of the final few years have all been about software. “There’s an app for that” has gone from being an Apple slogan to a simple truism. But the low-hanging fruit has been picked,and what’s left is much tougher to deliver. It may be expensive to build, pose a tricky technical problem, or simply have some strong incumbents fighting back.
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Source: theguardian.com