Relatively speaking, gazelle companies are better than unicorn companies in all aspects, but the high-tech development and industrial structure of a region and country can still be more intuitively expressed through the number of these two companies. come out.
Gazelle companies are small and medium-sized enterprises, while unicorn companies are large enterprises. Gazelle companies are high-tech enterprises in nature. They have their own intellectual property rights, patent rights, and innovative technologies, while unicorn companies are start-up companies in nature.
The characteristics of gazelle enterprises are closely related to their nature. Gazelle enterprises have strong innovative capabilities and vitality. Based on the high and new technologies they possess, they can develop rapidly. The characteristics of unicorn companies are that they have chosen a large market, made subversive innovations to the original rules of the industry, and achieved exponential user growth.
Compared with entrepreneurs in traditional industries, gazelle companies have higher requirements for founders’ professional backgrounds and greater need to develop an entrepreneurial spirit characterized by innovation. When China, which has become the world's factory, enters a new era, meeting people's needs for a better life and building a strong and competitive real economy are the historical missions of Chinese enterprises in the new era.
This requires entrepreneurs to take "specialization, specialization, innovation" as their goal, promote technological change, improve the modernization level of the producer service industry, and extend to specialization and the high end of the value chain.
The Origin of Gazelle Enterprise
The concept of "Gazelle Enterprise" was born in the 1990s. Originally proposed by MIT professor David Birch. Entrepreneurial companies that cross the Valley of Death and enter a period of rapid growth are called high-growth companies, also known as gazelle companies, because they have the same characteristics as "gazelles" - small, fast, Jump high.
Such a company can not only easily exceed one, ten, hundred, or one thousand times its annual growth rate, but can also quickly achieve an IPO, that is, raising capital through the issuance of shares in the capital market.
It mainly has the following characteristics: fast growth: achieving blowout and fission growth by leveraging its long-board advantages; strong innovation ability: developing original technologies and adopting new business models; new professional fields: grasping segmentation In the industrial field, start from the high end of the value chain; have great development potential: a small giant or invisible champion who holds the strategic commanding heights.